5 tips to help you avoid being featured in a "Boat Fails" video! Boating for beginners and boater safety tips you might not know! If you're a new boater, this video highlights some of the basic and simple things we can do to keep from having a very bad day on the boat! Boating can be a lot of fun - but not when we get severely sunburned, or we run out of fuel and don't have a way to get home. There are lots of things that can go wrong on the water and these five tips are to help you plan and think about some of the things we should plan for and items we should bring on our boat to have a great day on the water!

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00:00 Introduction
00:12 Boating Rule of thirds - use only one third of your fuel to get to your destination
00:53 Taking boat safety seriously by having the all of boating safety gear you might need
02:17 Have some boat breakdown options available if you need them
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