Safety
Whether in calm or rough waters, your Markel Helmsman Yacht Policy will help safely guide you and your vessel to your next destination. The Markel Style includes the ability to make decisions or to alter a course quickly. Your Markel Helmsman Yacht Policy promises to aid you in your navigation and steer you on a course that is both enjoyable and safe. To help make distress signals a thing of the past, we have included a few links that may be of use to you. Please feel free to use all of these items and make your voyages safe ones!
- Tres Martin's Performance Boat School: Focus on multi-step hull Vee bottom and Catamaran configurations.
- CG Inspection: Coast Guard Inspection list ensures that you are safe and ready to hit the waters under the proper legal guidelines.
- Channel Markers: These symbols and descriptions are excellent aids to navigation for all types of boaters.
- CG Auxiliary: United States Coast Guard Auxiliary provides information for safety, boating regulations, etc.
- Commander Bob: Safety tips and techniques for those heading out to sea.
- NSBC: National Safe Boating Council - The mission of the NSBC is to reduce accidents and enhance the boating experience. The NSBC is the foremost coalition for the advancement and promotion of safer boating through education.
- On Water: Recognizes the importance of boater safety and offers information covering all boater topics from safety to regulations.
- BoatSafe: This online course is approved by NASBLA and recognized by the U.S. Coast Guard. Successful completion of this course may qualify you for marine insurance discounts and meets many states' mandatory boating education requirements.
- NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's national weather service provides weather forecasting and preparation.
- SAMS: Society of Accredited Marine Surveyors, Inc. - SAMS is an international society dedicated to the advancement of the profession of marine surveying.
- Useful Knots: Covers a number of knots you are sure to encounter in day to day boating.