MIND YOUR MANNERS (PART 2)

BOATING ETIQUETTE

Boating etiquette has evolved and been developed over hundreds of years.

There are the actual rules which cover the do’s and don’t’s of life on the water — just like the road rules.

These are the written rules which you are obliged to follow, whether you have a boat licence or not.

In the last issue, Mind Your Manners (Part 1), we dealt with the hard and fast rules of boating, those with no grey areas.

This article deals with the unwritten rules, the courtesies that the boating community