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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