Marine Navigation Online
Coast Guard Auxiliary and Boat/US
Release On-Line Navigation Course
Imagine
a typical new boater. They excitedly buy a boat and dream of taking it
to fun, maybe even exotic, places. But they soon realize that they
don’t know how to get there, they don’t know how to navigate. They want
to learn navigation skills, they may even know about the Coast Guard
Auxiliary, but they may not have time to attend classes.
Now
we have a win-win opportunity to offer boaters a new world of boating
opportunities, promote boating safety and open up a new source of
revenue for flotillas.
The Coast Guard Auxiliary, in
partnership with the Boat US Foundation, has launched a new educational
program for boaters, an online, self-study course called Modern Marine
Navigation. Boaters that enroll in this course will learn, using their
own computers or tablets, in the comfort of
their own homes.
Auxiliary
instruction to the boating public has been declining for several years.
At the same time the use of online self-study instruction has been
steadily increasing. Leveraging this trend, the Auxiliary has authored
and developed a stimulating new interactive online course called
Modern Marine Navigation, with Web implementation and hosting by the Boat US Foundation.
This
is the only navigation course offered anywhere that has been completely
vetted by the US Coast Guard Navigation Center. It will be the gold
standard of navigation courses. This course opens a new market to
Auxiliary boating education and it offers a direct financial benefit to
flotillas.
Each
person who enrolls in the course, using our Burlington Coast Guard
Auxiliary Flotilla number* as a “promo code” on the Modern Marine
Navigation course website, will receive a discount of over 10% off the
purchase price.
The Modern Marine Navigation online interactive self-study course is now available by clicking this link http://cgaux.org/mmn or by going to the Boat US Foundation website. The course is priced at
$40.00. However, with a promo code (Burlington USCGAUX Flotilla # 0141502), the cost will be $36.00.