Boating Skills and Seamanship Course

6-8 Sessions, includes a textbook

Tuesdays

6pm-9pm

Saturdays

10am-4pm

Link to Register

Registration is $80.00

Which Boat Is For You? – Types of boats, hull design, uses of boats, materials for construction, types of engines, and buying a boat.

Equipment For Your Boat – Requirements for your boat's equipment, legal considerations, boating accidents, and substance abuse.

Trailering Your Boat – Choosing a towing vehicle and trailer, balancing the load, the right ball and hitch, launching and retrieving a boat.

Handling Your Boat – Fueling your boat, single vs. twin propellers, anchoring, trimming, leaving the dock, small boat safety, and weather.

Highway Signs – Buoyage system, ATONS, light characteristics, chart symbols.

Rules of the Road – Boating traffic, stand-on and give-way vessels, traffic separation, diver-down rules, anchoring, narrow channels, restricted visibility, small boat safety, and inland waters.

Introduction To Navigation – Piloting tools, charts, plotting, and compass.

Powering Your Boat –Types of engines, ignition systems, batteries, and troubleshooting.

lines and Knots –Line or rope, materials, measuring, knots, bends, hitches, splicing, securing lines.

Weather and Boating –Wind and boating, waves, fog, sources of weather information.

Your Boat's Radio – Functions of radios, selecting you VHF radio, channels, radio procedure, and types of radio calls.