Motorboating
Requirements for Motorboating merit badge from ? to January 1, 1998:
- Show that you know first aid for injuries or
illnesses that could occur while motorboating,
including hypothermia, heatstroke, heat exhaustion,
dehydration, sunburn, insect stings, tick bites,
blisters, and hyperventilation.
- Do the following:
- Identify the conditions that must exist before
performing CPR on a person. Explain how such
conditions are recognized.
- Demonstrate proper technique for performing CPR
on an adult mannequin for at least three minutes.
- Before doing the following requirements, successfully
complete the BSA swimmer test. Jump feetfirst into
water over your head in depth, swim 75 yards or 75
meters in a strong manner using one or more of the
following strokes: sidestroke, breaststroke, trudgen,
or crawl; then swim 25 yards or 25 meters using an easy,
resting backstroke. The 100 yards or 100 meters must be
swum continuously and include at least one sharp turn.
After completing the swim, rest by floating as motionless
as possible.
- Show you know safety laws for motorboating:
- Have a permit to run a motorboat, if needed.
- Explain laws affecting pleasure boating in your
state.
- Discuss with your counselor how the hazards of
weather and heavy water conditions can affect both
safety and performance in motorboating.
- Promise that you will live up to the Scout Boating
code. Explain the meaning of each point.
- Discuss with your counselor the nautical rules of
the road and describe the national and your state's
aids to navigation.
- Explain and show the correct use of equipment
required by both state and federal regulations to be
carried aboard a motorboat.
- Explain the requirement on federal and state
ventilation rules and state why this is needed.
- Show you know how to run a motorboat by doing the
following the right way:
- Get in a boat.
- Fuel and check motor before starting.
- Start motor and get under way from a dock or beach.
- Run a straight course for a quarter mile. Make
right-angle turns to left or right. Make a U-turn.
- Stop boat. Drop anchor. Raise it. Get under way.
- Come alongside a dock. Tie up or beach.
- Show how to:
- Tie up or take boat from water.
- Store gear.
- Prepare motor for the winter.
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