Stories
Stories can tell about a particular boating experience involving safety or it can convey the reasons why you’re a safe boater and what safe boating practices you and/or your family follow. Stories must include life jacket wear. Stories must be a minimum of 150 words and a maximum of 750 words in length. Your story can be handwritten, printed by computer, or emailed to us. Awards will be based on good grammar, writing style, composition, safety message, and the story told.
Posters
Posters should contain a simple, brief message that encourages and inspires others to be safe boaters. Posters must include and show life jacket wear. Submissions must measure 8.5 inches by 11 inches or 11 inches by 14 inches. The longest measurement can be either wide or high. Computer-generated submissions must be provided as one jpg, tiff, or eps file (type fonts must be converted to outlines). All submissions must be mailed to the address provided. Do not email your poster submission. Awards will be based on design, composition, style, safety message, color impact and usage, and quality of artwork and/or photography.
Videos
Short videos can be very serious or contain some humor to make a point about boating safety. Videos must include and show life jacket wear. Submissions must range from 30 seconds to 2 minutes in length and submitted as Quicktime movie (mpeg) files on CD or DVD or they can be submitted as miniDV or VCR tapes. Videos must be mailed to the address provided. Do not email your video submission. Awards will be based on design, video editing, style, safety message, and quality of artwork and/or videography.
ENTRY SUBMISSIONS:
1. Entry submissions MUST include the following information:
- Your name, age, mailing address, email address, and type(s) of boating you enjoy.
- Medium (for posters) used (crayon, acrylic or watercolor paints, pencil, ink, computer originated, photography, or a combination of mediums). If poster is created on computer, please provide software used.
- Approval for each person shown in your video or photography used in your poster submission. Approval is the responsibility of the person submitting the poster or video.
Submissions that do not include all entry information listed above are subject to refusal.
2. Entries are limited to one entry per person per category.
3. Online and email submissions: stories with entry information can be submitted online or they can be a MS Word file attached to your email submission. Story submissions can be also mailed to the address below.
4. Mail submissions: poster and video submissions with entry information must be mailed to:
