U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 66, Mathews, presented a “Boat Virginia” class on Saturday, Jan. 22, at the flotilla’s training center in Deltaville. Students received their lifetime Boating Education Certificate, satisfying state requirements that all operators of personal watercraft and motorboats of 10 horsepower or greater pass an approved boating safety education course. The course, sponsored by the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, covers topics such as navigation rules, legal requirements, safety and good seamanship. Participants included, from left, instructor Ray Procopio, students David Condon, David Noftsinger, Christine Johnson and Mike Bott, Flotilla Public Education Staff Officer/Instructor Mike Moore, instructor Michael Gregory and, not pictured, instructor Tom Edwards. The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is the all-volunteer arm of the Coast Guard. Mathews Flotilla 66 carries on its primary mission of promoting recreational boating safety through public educati...