What's going on everybody? This is the Tom Rollin podcast. How To Tuesday brought to you by Dan Coe and what we're talking about today is boating.

There's a lot of people that have gotten into boating since COVID. It's been incredibly popular and a lot of people are

getting into a boat that maybe they're not ready for, maybe it's a little too much

boat, maybe it's a big upgrade, but lots of people are getting in there we've got

Captain Harley hunt from how-to-boding.com he's also on Instagram and other places

tic-toc all under the how-to-boding handle and he's with us today. Harley, if you were to tell

somebody which I'm sure you do all the time, how do you kind of get familiar with a

boat in a situation to where there's not a lot of big

consequences if you hit. Like for example you don't want to learn how to drive your boat in a

marina. How do you do it to where you can get people in a safe area and kind of get them to understand what to expect from this boat?

Well for me personally what I do when I step on a boat is just to get familiar with it

Yeah first of all I gotta make sure that the throttles work gotta make sure the steering works all that stuff before you untie the boat.

So once we're good with that, once we know everything works, then we'll go ahead and

untie the boat.

And what I'll do is say we have a twin engine boat I'll only use one of those

engines at a time and pop it in and out so say we're backing out of a slope or

pulling away from a slip I'm not not going to throw both engines in reverse at the same time.

That's just, that just increased risk for you, increases speed and, I always say, slow as bro,

or only go as fast as you're willing.

It's something, you know, so for me, I only pop one engine in and out of gear,

depending on, you know, where I want to go.

And that, first of all with that that gets you the

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