To get a captain's license in Canada for commercial vessel operation, you must get a Certificate of Competency from Transport Canada. Earning this certificate required formal training, a marine medical certificate, documented sea service time, and marine emergency duties training. Note that a captain's license…
If you have a canoe with a trolling motor in Canada, you need a licence to operate it. That's because attaching any motor, gas or electric, regardless of horsepower, makes your canoe a motorized vessel. To operate a motorized vessel on Canadian waters, you need…
Adding a trolling motor to a kayak, regardless of size or whether it's gas or electric, creates a motorized vessel under Transport Canada rules, so you need a Pleasure Craft Operator Card (PCOC) to operate it. A Pleasure Craft Licence differs from a PCOC and…
A lost boating licence doesn't have to ruin your plans, and it doesn’t require you to take the course again. Contact your course provider for a replacement PCOC and follow a quick, simple process to get back on the water fast. If you got your…
You can get a free boater safety exam practice test through us at BOATERexam. We're a Transport Canada-accredited provider, and our boating license practice test questions follow the real PCOC exam format and topics, but they aren't official, verbatim test questions. Here are 10 sample…
