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Top 60 Tips:Boat Handling [VHS]

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This is basically just a dubbing of a VHS tape onto a DVD. There's only a rudimentary set of chapters encompassing dozens of tips together. The instructions offered, however, are worthwhile. It does a pretty good job of showing you some important steps in handling your boat. You just have to ignore the horrible video quality.

If they'd re-shoot this using the same script and put a decent DVD menu on it they'd have a real winner.

If you can buy it used somewhere cheap it's worth picking up, but new? No.

Another reviewer mentioned the low quality footage of this DVD. That doesn't bother me too much - the picture is clear enough to get the point across.

This DVD did have a few useful tips - I did learn a few things. But only about 7 or 8 of the "60 Tips" were relevant to me. There was no advice here regarding water skiing or fishing safety.

And, there really weren't 60 tips (i.e., Tip #1 is Be Careful, Tip #2 is Different Sized Boats Behave Differently).

Also, about 1/3 of the tips were about dual engine boats, which didn't apply to me. And, another 1/3 of the tips deal with leaving the dock/slip. I don't have a dual engine boat, or a slip, so none of this was useful to me.

But if you are fairly new to boating, have a dual engine or larger boat, and experience a lot of traffic in the marina, there would be a lot of useful information here for you.