| A long-time Coast Guard-licensed master and former boat delivery captain, Capt. Battye is a master professional close-quarters boat-handling skills teacher, and has taught these skills to pleasure boaters on upper Chesapeake Bay since the mid-1980s. He is well able to teach close-quarters control on express and flybridge cruisers, sailboats, runabouts, center consoles, and sportfish. He knows single and twin inboards, stern-drives, and outboards. He loves to teach in wind and current, and is especially pleased to teach people how to singlehand in those conditions.
Capt. Battye, having been a college instructor, brings to boating a formal teaching background; thus, he is a teacher first, and a boater second. His one-of-a-kind curriculum, BoatHandler, was selected by the National Safe Boating Council to use nationally as their own on-water train- the-trainer program, teaching it to professional organizations, like Marine Police. Capt. Battye, their lead instructor, uses the same material to supplement his own private on-water teaching. Capt. Battye works with boaters of all skill levels. He specializes in singlehanded and short-handed slip-and-pier docking and departure, in varied conditions of wind and current.
Capt. Battye, a recognized leader in innovative training methods, used his knowledge and creativity to produce a basic close-quarters boat-handling skills training curriculum which the National Safe Boating Council has taught to marine law enforcement and waterway management professionals.
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