boat safety Archives - Cottage Life

Rows of orange personal floatation devices

Ontario Parks’s lending out PFDs to encourage water safety

Outdoors

Small motor boat driving away

These 7 tips can prevent your boat from being stolen

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Michelle Kelly

Why I wear a life jacket

Outdoors

Two lifejackets suspended

Transport Canada considers making lifejackets mandatory on recreational boats

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Portrait of young and attractive people, friends in the motorboat driving somewhere on a picnic. Happy faces, having fun, Norway.

5 potentially life-saving tips every boater should know

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Bird's eye view of white speedboat driving along the blue lake water, creating waves.

Changes could be coming to pleasure craft licensing in Canada

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police searching for boat crash victim

OPP investigating fatal boat crash on Lake Rosseau

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boat crash

What to do if you’re involved in a boat crash

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The ultimate boat safety starter kit for beginners

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smart buoy

Smart buoys connect the Great Lakes in a whole new way

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boating-at-dusk

5 things to learn from the O’Leary boat collision that killed two people

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5 things you can be fined for when driving your boat

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Rivets leak, so let’s fix ’em

Car tows a boat on a trailer on the highway

How to ramp up your boat trailering skills for a perfect put-in

Outdoors

life-jacket-history

A brief history of the lifejacket

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Water snake on metal surface

How can you get resting water snakes out of a boat?

Outdoors