America's Boating Course - 3

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

Next Class: February 28, 2012
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Seamanship

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

Next Class: TBD
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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.

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Advanced Piloting

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

Next Class: TBD
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Junior Navigation

Celestial navigation: Using a sextant, a watch and a Nautical Almanac, determine your location (Lat & Lo) on Earth using the Sun.
Prerequisite:  Advanced Piloting

Next Class: TBD
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Navigation

Extend your knowledge of celestial navigation; astronomical phenomena; mathematical principals; practical applications.
Prerequisite: Junior Navigation

Next Class: TBD
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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.

Next Class: TBD
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Instructor Development

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

Next Class: February 23, 2012
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Engine Maintenance

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

Next Class: TBD
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Sail

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

Next Class: March 26, 2012
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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.

Next Class: TBD
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Marine Electronics

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

Next Class: September 12, 2012
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Operations Training Course

This course will inform you about all aspects of USPS.  It will help you understand why it takes so many people to keep the squadron running.

Next Class: February 25, 2012
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