News & Events
A Helping Hand To Pasifika Boaties.
FED Funding Maritime NZ recently announced the recipients of the annual Fuel Excise Duty (FED) funding for safer boating initiatives to help reduce recreational boating fatalities and injuries. More than $740,000 in funding is distributed to 21 on-water and land-based... > Read more
Making the right decisions: The value of knowing what you’re doing.
It’s been said that good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. Or as Oscar Wilde said “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes”. If you go boating frequently you will realise that things don’t always... > Read more
Essential Boating Communications
If we can't hear you, we can't rescue you - it's as simple as that Research has revealed that 59% of recreational boating fatalities involve inadequate communications. Despite extensive efforts by various bodies around 50% of boaties report having two ways of calling... > Read more
COVID-19 Update
COVID-19 Update With the recent announcement from the government regarding COVID-19, Coastguard Boating Education's office is now closed for the lockdown period. However, we have been able to stay in operation with all our staff working from home. Many of... > Read more
Boating after Dark
For new, or even experienced boaties, navigating at night can seem like a daunting experience. When the sun sets and darkness creeps in, it can be nerve-wracking not being able to see all your surroundings. But boating at night doesn’t have to be a formidable experience.... > Read more
Navigating safely : Understanding your chart plotter
Navigating Safely: Understanding your chart plotter Chart plotters, mobile phone apps, and open source software programmes are becoming increasingly popular as the primary form of position fixing on many recreational vessels. It’s easy to... > Read more
Updated information of VHF Callsigns
Updated information of VHF Callsigns 7 December 2017 As from 7th December 2017 Coastguard Boating Education has introduced a charge for the change of ‘ownership’ of a VHF callsign. This change of ownership (rights as a call sign holder) is... > Read more
UPDATED MARINE MEDIC COURSES
Coastguard Boating Education (CBE) has revised, updated and introduced new offerings into their suite of Marine Medic courses. In addition to the existing two day Coastal Medic qualification, they have introduced a one day refresher course for current certificate... > Read more
Southlanders need to fix bad water safety habits - Rob Hewitt
Rob Hewitt, who survived 72 hours adrift at sea off the Kapiti Coast in 2006, discusses his experiences in Southland teaching water and boat safety skills to students from Aurora College, and the growing need for training of this kind. The article can be found here:... > Read more
Day Skipper Online is a Triple Award Winner
Optimism wins triple business awards crown New Zealand corporate learning and development company Optimism has won four business eLearning Awards in the last three months – one in Australia, two in New York USA and then most recently overall winner in New Zealand.... > Read more