In 2007, the Virginia General Assembly enacted a law establishing a boating safety education compliance requirement. The requirement applies to all operators of a motorboat with a motor of 10 horsepower or greater or personal watercraft on the public waters of the Commonwealth. Virginia Dept. of Game & Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) offers a course on responsible boating that provides basic boating skills including legal requirements; navigation rules; preparation/trailering; accidents; weather; water sports. Those completing the course will receive a card/certificate. *Boaters interested in the boating safety education compliance requirement and its application in the Commonwealth of Virginia are urged to visit the website: www.dgif.virginia.gov or call (804) 367-1125.  No discounts.

Note: For those PWC and motorboat operators who have successfully completed a boater safety course in the past and your card/certificate bears the NASBLA approval seal, you are likely to be in compliance with the Virginia boating safety education compliance requirement. However, to be sure, you should consider contacting the course provider that issued the card for guidance.

Stone Hall (Nat. Radio Astronomy Observatory ‘NRAO’) at 520 Edgemont Rd.  Directions: Go south on 29N and take a right onto Thomson Rd. (just past UVA Memorial Gym). Go to end of road and take a left onto Alderman Rd. Head south (towards Scott Stadium) to the traffic light and turn right onto Edgemont Rd. Go to the stop sign and take the right (still Edgemont Rd). Go to the first road on the right and you will be in front of NRAO. If you go to Shelbourne Hall, you’ve gone too far. Go in the front door and auditorium is on the left.