THURMOND LAKE SAIL & POWER SQUADRON

Public Boating Courses

USPS has one course they make available to squadrons for teaching boating safety to the public. Our squadron teaches the shorter course. This course requires five sessions, usually taught one session a week. Boating safety is very important to United States Power Squadrons and to our squadron.    

    We teach a minimum of two courses a year to the  communities of Abbeville and McCormick in South Carolina and Lincolnton  in Georgia.  These  are usually taught during the spring and fall of the  year.  To become a  member  of USPS and our squadron, one of the requirements is to have passed a qualified  course such as USPS Boating Course.

The course teaches the basics of safe boating including  instruction on rules of the road, boat handling in normal and adverse  conditions,  required and recommended equipment, federal and state boating  regulations,  basic  knots  and hitches, and many other valuable topics. More than 3 million people  have completed a USPS Squadron Boating course.