Boating Classes


To register for a boating class click here http://www.usps.org/cgi-bin/fclass.cgi?QRedondo
or to receive information please call, 

Past Commander Mike Reymond, N
Squadron Education Officer at (310) 791-1961
mike.reymond@gmail.com

 or email the Webmaster

For advanced classes please call Frank Radomsky at 310-322-9825


 


Our next Boating Class will be beginning in the month of September on the 22nd. Please contact Mike Reymond at the above number or email Mike at the above address.

It will be held at Perry Park Senior Center from 7:00pm to 9:30.  It is a seven week class with the test on the 8th week, Certificates will be given with a passing grade, you will be asked to join us.   Check out our page on Membership Benefits. Instruction is free the only cost will be for student manual, and plotting tools at a cost of $200 and included is a years free membership.  Parking is free.

Seamanship Class: A Seamanship Class will begin on July 28,2009 at 7:00pm. Place is Perry Park Senior Center

Basic Boating Class instructions are free. There is a fee for student manuals and materials.

The following are continuing education classes we have to offer:  For times and places of classes, contact SEO Mike Reymond or Frank Radomsky

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:
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.


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