Starting off the season with a Vessel Safety Check is the best what to get started, offshore or otherwise. You can find Vessel Examiners near you with this link – https://wow.uscgaux.info/i_want_a_vsc/index.php Of course, government standards are really government minimums – you can always do more. More flares, extra radios, more life-jackets, EPIRB for the boat and PLBs, (fka “PEE-PIRBs”) for all hands, and/and/and. And one thing the Vessel Examiner will not do is check your engine for readiness – your local trained mechanic should be doing that for you before you head out onto God’s Great Sea…
Commodore Vin Pica
BTW, if you are interested in being part of USCG Forces, email me at JoinUSCGAux@aol.com or go direct to the D1SR Human Resources department, who are in charge of new members matters, at DSO-HR and we will help you “get in this thing…”
