Rental Boat Safety Website Promotes and Provides Free Boating Safety Resources for Rental Boat Customers and Agencies

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Mar 30, 2021, 08:34 ET

CHESAPEAKE, Va., March 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Rental Boat Safety, a campaign funded by the Sports Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund, provides free boating safety training resources to increase safe boating practices on waterways nationwide. RentalBoatSafety.com currently impacts over 800,000 rental customers each year by offering our educational videos and safety training to more than 3,200 liveries and marinas around the nation.

Rental Boat Safety provides FREE Training Resources for boat renters and boat rental liveries. These resources cover the most popular recreational boating vessels including power boats, personal watercrafts, canoes & kayaks and stand-up paddleboards. Rental Boat Safety encourages people to properly educate themselves before renting a boat. Your Safety Matters!

RentalBoatSafety.com hosts vessel-specific training videos and checklists, video PSA's, blogs, and other U.S. Coast Guard-approved resources created with both rental agencies and customers in mind. Training videos and resources are available for specific types of boats from paddlecraft to PWC's to power boats and houseboats. A comprehensive knowledge assessment quiz follows the brief educational videos offering a badge of completion if the student answers 80% or more correctly. This badge of completion can be utilized by customers to demonstrate their knowledge when renting a boat.

In 2019, the U.S. Coast Guard reported 4,168 recreational boating-related accidents, 613 deaths, 2,559 injuries and $55 million dollars of damage to property. Rental Boat Safety invites boat rental agencies nationwide to join the Rental Boat Safety Community as a way of ensuring their customers have a safe boating experience.

About Rental Boat Safety

Rental Boat Safety (www.RentalBoatSafety.com) is a boating campaign for the purpose of providing recreational rental boat customers and liveries across the nation with free boating safety resources across the nation. The Rental Boat Safety Campaign is funded by the Sports Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund and administered by the U.S. Coast Guard. To learn more about how your organization can partner with us, please contact Executive Director, Jess Brockett, at [email protected]

Media Contact:
Jess Brockett
[email protected]
757-647-1196
www.RentalBoatSafety.com

SOURCE RentalBoatSafety.com