Piloting

Prerequisite: Boating

This course take the material learned in Boating and enhances it with more advanced knowledge of boat handling in rough weather and emergency situations. It enhances the plotting skills learned in the Boating course by adding coastal navigation, relative bearings, running fixes, effects of current and leeway and the famous marlin spike certificate.

Advanced Piloting

Prerequisite: Piloting

Advanced coastal navigation principles, charting and plotting will enable you to know where you are at all times. Your boat’s position can be determined by using landmarks, and aids to navigation – allowing for current and leeway, tides and tidal currents. It offers new skills in steering and timing a course, additional chart familiarization, tides and tidal currents, electronic navigation aids and the sextant.

Please review the course descriptions and their scheduled dates on the Course Calendar. If you have any questions, please contact the Training Officer.

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Introductory:
Boat Pro
Boating

Advanced:
Piloting*
Advanced Piloting*

Elective:
Marine Maintenance
Seamanship Power
Seamanship Sail
VHF Radio Talk
Weather

*Members only