Boat Ed is a private organization dedicated to providing boater safety courses and certification and publishing boater education materials. Boat Ed works directly with the state government agencies responsible for boater safety education to develop home-study courses, such as the online and video boating safety courses found on this site.

Each of Boat Ed's courses is the official online boating safty course for the state government agency responsible for boating.

Boat Ed is the official and exclusive provider of print and video boating safety courses for more than 45 states. And, Boat Ed is the only boating safety course provider that develops print materials on behalf of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and the United States Power Squadrons.