Get Onboard – Help Us Make Boating Better On GivingTuesday
November 20, 2025
Lack of experience and knowledge significantly contributes to recreational boating accidents each year, resulting in an average of 100 fatalities per year. Key factors contributing to these incidents include:
- Capsizing
- Collisions
- Unpreparedness
These issues are often worsened by unforeseen weather conditions and reckless behaviour.
To combat this, CanBoat / NautiSavoir volunteers have been educating boaters on safe practices, and offering courses since 1938, long before the mandatory Pleasure Craft Operator Card program. Our comprehensive training covers weather, safety, navigation, and emergency response, promoting safer waterways for everyone to enjoy.
Individual donations play a crucial role in helping us enhance and promote our services for the boating community. These contributions support the development and delivery of our exceptional and affordable courses and outreach programs, which include safety equipment checks and demonstrations, flare collection initiatives, and top-notch boating guidance.
Our volunteers helped 597 boaters stay safe and compliant during the 2025 boating season by checking safety equipment on boats and making recommendations. CanBoat volunteers also hosted 37 expired flare collection events and collected 38,863 flares for safe neutralization.
This year, we are asking for your help on December 2nd in recognition of GivingTuesday. With proper knowledge and preparation, boating accidents and devastating fatalities can be prevented.
CanBoat / NautiSavoir is operated by Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons / Escadrilles canadiennes de plaisance. Charitable Registration Number: 10686 5611 RR000
GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. This idea has grown into a year-round global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.
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