Nationwide Emergency Alert System Test Set for 1400 EST on 9 Nov.

  On Wednesday, 9 Nov. 2011, FEMA, DHS and the FCC will conduct the first test of the Nationwide Emergency Alert System.The 3-minute nationwide test will kick off at 1400 EST and run concurrently across all time zones. This is the first such test to broadcast a simultaneous message to the entire American public.Local police and emergency management officials want to eliminate undue public
Read more... [2011-11-02]

St. Augustine Proposes 10-Day Anchoring Limit

As part of Florida’s recreational boat mooring and anchoring pilot program, the City of St. Augustine has submitted a proposed anchoring ordinance to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission that limits anchoring within city limits to 10 consecutive days. If the ordinanceis passed, once this time limit is reached a vessel would have to move to an approved mooring field, marina or outside city
Read more... [2011-10-31]

USPS Webinar: Emergency Locator Beacons

USPS Webinar: Emergency Locator BeaconsGlobal Search and Rescue - EPIRBs, PLBs and Related Locator DevisesDescription:Join us for a webinar presentation by Denny Emory of Emory / Yachting Services and co-founder of OceanMedix.com LLC. The webinar can be attended from the comfort of your living room! An Emergency Locator Beacon has become a standard piece of emergency equipment carried by
Read more... [2011-10-24]

Carolina squadrons’ service honored

Forty years ago, a new name appeared on North Carolina coastal navigation charts. On 13 April 1971, NOAA’s National Ocean Service and the United States Board on Geographic Names officially designated a spot on Cape Lookout 2.5 miles north-northwest of the cape point Power Squadron Spit to recognize the Cooperative Charting efforts of 20 District 27 squadrons in North and South Carolina. Power
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USPS, USCG Aux. boost boating safety efforts

United States Power Squadrons and the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary signed an agreement during the Auxiliary’s national conference on 27 Aug. 2011 to broaden their cooperation in vessel examinations, public affairs and education. USPS and the Coast Guard Auxiliary are committed to improving boating safety through increased boater education, vessel examinations and public awareness events.“With
Read more... [2011-08-29]

Risk on the Water

By Ed Gumbrecht, Chief Operating Officer, Gowrie GroupPerhaps you have heard some of the strange and extreme stories of boaters who sustain damage to their vessels on the water. Last season, a couple day-sailing encountered a forty ton whale which crash landed on (and totaled) their boat. In the Bahamas, some US college students on spring break helped rescue a grounded 50 foot yacht, and then
Read more... [2011-08-22]

Help prevent groundings

The Alliance for Safe Navigation, of which USPS is a founding member, asks all recreational boaters to complete a brief survey designed to gauge their awareness of navigational tool updates and accuracy. This year’s survey also gathers data on groundings and their relationship to a lack of accurate navigational tools. While most boaters use GPS, electronic charts and paper charts, a 2010
Read more... [2011-08-09]

Hugli named Florida boating educator of the year

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has selected USPS Educational Outreach Chairman, R/C Wilbur G. Hugli, SN, of Fort Walton Beach as Florida’s 2010 Boating Educator of the Year. As the state winner, Hugli will also be a candidate for the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators national award.The award recognizes those in the boating education field who go above
Read more... [2011-07-27]

NASBLA Appoints Sweet to Standards Panel

The National Association of State Boating Law Administrators Executive Board recently appointed United States Power Squadrons’ National Educational Officer V/C Bob Sweet, SN, to its new National Education Standards Panel. Representing public, state, federal, commercial and nonprofit stakeholder interests, the 15-member panel begins work this year to review the National Boating Education
Read more... [2011-07-25]