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This page is purely comic relief and knowledge you may or may not know!  It's certainly for the light hearted and to be enjoyed by all!  Bring your sense of humor and see how much you know!

• "FACT: WHEN THE DRAFT OF YOUR VESSEL EXCEEDS THE DEPTH OF THE WATER, YOU ARE MOST ASSUREDLY... AGROUND!"

• In boating…a new meaning for TGIF is “Thank God It Floats”

• A boat is a hole in the water, surrounded by wood or fiberglass, into which you pour your money

• Red sun in morning, sailors warning

Red sun at night, sailors delight

• Mares tails and mackerel scales make tall ships take in their sails

• If God had wanted fiberglass boats, he would have planted fiberglass trees

• 80% of fatalities in 2003 occurred on boats where the operator had not completed a boating safety course

• It is estimated that in the United States, there are 50,867,840 acres of lakes; 633,109 miles of rivers; and 88,633 miles of coastal shoreline (including bays and inlets)

• More than half of all the people in the U. S. live within 50 miles of a coastline

• 85% of all recreational boating accidents are attributable to operator error (excessive speed, inattention, failure to follow nav rules and practices, use of, alcohol, lack of knowledge about the boat or boating environment, etc.).

• Less than 20% of recreational boat operators involved in fatal boating accidents had taken some type of boating education course
• Everything on your boat is broken; you just don’t know it yet
• 1.17 times the square root of your height of eye = Distance to the horizon in nautical miles

• When at sea, to figure the amount of time before sunset, place your hand in a horizontal position, the edge of your pinky on the horizon, and count the number of fingers to the bottom of the sun.  Multiply 20 minutes times the number of fingers to determine the amount of time left before sunset