On-water Training
Small Powerboat Skipper
Small Powerboat Skipper training helps boaters build practical on-water skills, understand safe operating habits, and prepare for real conditions with a certified captain.
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Large Powerboat Skipper
Large Boat Skipper training focuses on planning, maneuvering, situational awareness, docking, and safe operation for larger recreational vessels.
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Skipper Training Levels
BEGINNER: Best for boaters with little or no recent hands-on operating experience.
SOME EXPERIENCE: Best for boaters who are comfortable underway but want more confidence in real-world situations.
EXPERT: Best for experienced boaters seeking validation, refinement, or documented skill assessment.
Skill Builder Training
Boating Fundamentals
The Boating Fundamentals skill-builder Powerboating course is your crucial first step to becoming familiar and comfortable with your boat handling skills. Think of it as the first day of Driver's ED.
This entire course is taught on the water and will teach you the basic parts of the boat, rules of the water, operating instructions, handling waves & wind, and safety checklists, boating. Pick the boat size you are interested in getting training on.
Anchoring & Mooring Balls
You will learn both simple and advanced maneuvering techniques to master anchoring and mooring to balls in open water that will keep your family safe and your boat undamaged.
- Mooring Buoy Arrival
- Casting off mooring buoy
- Anchoring & Retrieval
- and more...
Pick the boat size you are interested in getting training on.
Docking with Confidence
You will learn both simple and advanced docking, departure and close quarter maneuvering techniques that will keep your family safe and your boat undamaged.
- Departing from dock
- 180-Degree Turnarounds
- Docking on Port & Starboard
- Using S.C.A.N. procedures
- and more...
Pick the boat size you are interested in getting training on.
Open Water Maneuvering Fundamentals
You will learn both simple and advanced planning techniques to come up to plane, handling waves & wakes and several other maneuvering techniques that will keep your family safe and your boat undamaged.
- Recognizing Plowing Mode
- Transitioning to/from Planing Mode
- Boat and Engine Trim in Planing Mode
- Crossing Waves in Planing Mode
- Avoidance Turns ("S" Turn) on Plane
- and more...
Pick the boat size you are interested in getting training on.
Private Charters
Sunset Cruise
5:30pm - 8:30pm
$295.00
Max 4 people
Day Cruise
Day Cruise / Sandbar adventure
4 hours
$500
Max 4 people
Fishing Adventures
4 hours min.
$155/hour
Max 4 people
Meet Captain David Bulick
I started with a 14 ft. sea witch sail boat then a 21 ft. Columbia by age 14. Moved to power boats at age 15. I have had a boat since. Lakes to start and then moved to inter-coastal and open water. From a 19 footer to a 60 foot ocean yacht.
