Basic Boating -(BC) - This class enhances your current boating experience or teaches you beginners the rules of the road, how to tie knots, plotting
                           a course on a chart. And many safety issues.

Seamanship - (S) - The material covered includes Marlinespike (Knots), Seamanship, Rules of the Road, Boat Handling, and Emergencies

Piloting - (P) - Introduces you to safe navigation of your boat, dead reckoning position, charting positions by taking bearings on visible objects,
                     using the mariner's compass and correcting for magnetic variation.

Advanced Piloting - (AP) - Picks up where piloting leaves off by including magnetic deviation, bearings and soundings, and tide and tide tables.

Junior Navigation - (JN) - Introduction to offshore plotting techniques using celestial navigation and use of the sextant.

Navigation - (N) - This last advance grades course will supplement, extend and deepen your knowledge of celestial navigation, teach you three 
                          methods of sight reduction, link navigational concept of time, compass, astronomy and much more.
 

We also offer these elective courses to our members:
Engine Maintenance - (EM) - Learn to understand your engine, how it works, what can go wrong and how to recognize what has gone wrong 
                                    so that you may take certain corrective actions while afloat.

Sail - (Sa) - This allows you to take maximum advantage of YOUR BOAT. First you should know the names of the parts of your boat's 
                   rigging in order to see how each affects the balance and tuning.

Cruise Planning - (CP) - Make your cruises more enjoyable by proper preparation. Topics covered include financing the voyage, knowing 
                              your boat, provisioning, navigation planning, communications equipment and much more.

Marine Electronics - (ME) - This course covers the AC and DC power systems, including galvanic corrosion. The various breeds of marine 
                                   radios are covered including the all important and legal requirements for proper procedure in their use.

Weather - (WE) - This is of maximum value to the blue water sailor, although offshore sailors need it also. Weather forecasting 
                         for rank amateurs is covered in some detail.

Instructor Qualification - (IQ) - You are prepared to not only become an effective instructor in courses of interest to you, but it also 
                                         shows you how to prepare a presentation on any subject to any audience with a reasonable degree of confidence.