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|                                Boating School                      (000Y0) |
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Boating School can be found at the red S marker at the Northwestern corner of 
the world.  Here you will be challenged to complete five boating tasks in 
order to increase your boating abilities.  Getting a bronze will unlock the 
Marquis while silver gets a Squallo and gold gets you a Jetmax.

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|  _ --------o-------\                   Basic Seamanship                    |
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For the first mission you need to accelerate the boat forward and then stop it 
in the region between the parallel buoys.  This is quite a simple task, all 
you need to do is hold X at the start to move forward.  At some point you will 
get a message on the screen telling you to hit square to use the reverse 
throttle, when you see this message count two seconds and then immediately 
hold the square button, you'll definitely pass and probably get a gold.

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|  _ --------o-------\                     Plot a Course                     |
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Plot a Course sets you on a course between a number of buoys that you must 
complete in less than forty seconds which can be done easily assuming you 
don't make any critical errors which is where the time will add up.  The 
course it pretty straightforward and you can see each marker on your map, a 
couple of times you'll need to utilize the R1 button to do a sharper turn or 
correct yourself if you end up facing a different direction.

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|  _ --------o-------\                     Fresh Slalom                      |
 \_/      (000Y3)     \------------------------------------------------------o

Similar to the last test you must navigate between a bunch of buoys, however 
the Dinghy turns much shaper than the previous boat did and in fact you won't 
need to use the R1 button for any of the turns at all.  Try to avoid hitting 
the buoys themselves as it will net you a damage penalty in the end if you do, 
but the full two minutes still gives you lots of room to make errors.

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|  _ --------o-------\                      Flying Fish                      |
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The goal of this mission is to jump more than 55 meters.  If you just drive 
straight for the jump not only will you be on an angle but you also won't have 
enough speed.  You're given plenty of time so when the mission starts turn 
right and start driving toward the bridge.  When you time is somewhere in the 
high twenty seconds turn around and aim yourself directly toward the jump.  No 
matter how you manoeuvre in the air you should be able to land get this one.

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|  _ --------o-------\                   Land, Sea and Air                   |
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The final test gives you three minutes to again navigate through a whole bunch 
of parallel buoys that will lead you all around the water and even over a 
couple of jumps.  There's plenty of time to accomplish it, where you'll get 
screwed are on the damage penalties so take the extra couple seconds to line 
up each one, it's better than the five second penalty you get for each nudge.