America's Boating Course - 3

Learn the fundamentals of safe boat handling and operation, and basic piloting in one comprehensive classroom course.

Start Date: September 14, 2010
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Seamanship

Rules of the Road; communications; boat handling; docking; anchoring; emergencies; trailering; maintenance, and much more.

Start Date: Next Class September 2010
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Piloting

The Piloting course is the first in the sequence of USPS courses on navigation, covering the basics of coastal and inland navigation.

Start Date: Next Class September 2010
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Advanced Piloting

Position by bearing, soundings, and angles; tides and currents; speed-time-distance accuracy; and much more.

Start Date: Next Class January/February 2011
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Junior Navigation

Celestial navigation; importance of correct time and accurate plots; nautical almanacs and navigational tables; using sextant.

Start Date: January 12, 2011
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Navigation

Extend your knowledge of celestial navigation; astronomical phenomena; mathematical principals; practical applications.

Start Date: September 2010
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Weather

Learn to read a weather map and the sky; interpret cloud formations and sequences; make your own observations and predictions.

Start Date: January 18, 2011
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Instructor Development

Organize your thoughts and make good presentations; communicate effectively; overcome that "nervous stomach".

Start Date: TBA
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Engine Maintenance

This course teaches the principles of gas & diesel engine cooling, lubrication, ignition, and fuel systems.

Start Date: January 2011
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Sail

Handling, anchoring, mooring, docking, stability, true and apparent wind, rigs and hulls, sailing theory, laying up and fitting out.

Start Date: Next Class April 2011
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Cruise Planning

Where to go, what to see; what to take (and not take); all the details that need to be planned before you go.

Start Date: January 2011
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Marine Electronics

Radio, depth sounders, Loran, radar, GPS; proper wiring; theory of electrolysis; batteries and much more.

Start Date: September 9, 2010
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