On-water training includes:
- Docking and maneuvering
- Vessel handling in lake-waters
- Anchoring – manual
- Anchoring - windlass
- Electronic navigation training
- Regional boat delivery without owner aboard
- Long distance boat delivery with owner training underway
Basic boat handling
- Steering and maintaining maximum boat control
- How to manage the boat's momentum
- Safe slowing and stopping
- Backing down a narrow channel
- Turning the boat around in tight spaces
- Docking concepts
- Utilizing steering, shifting, and throttle to dock effectively
- Techniques for docking the boat in windy conditions
- Station keeping
- Ferrying
Intermediate boat handling
- Docking and close quarters boat control practices
- Backing down and turning around in tight spaces
- Open water boat handling
- Understanding trim
- How to approach wakes