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Boat Handling
Learn the fundamentals of boat handling and safety techniques, including skipper and crew responsibilities, preparing for departure, handling emergencies, anchoring techniques, lines and knots, docking and undocking techniques, marine weather, collision avoidance rules, and tide and current tables. Each section includes course notes, which can be downloaded electronically or printed in booklet format, instructional videos, skill-testing quizzes and practice exercises, and links to supplementary resources, including web-based links and videos related to each topic.
- Available from $180
- Suggested Pre-requisities
Basic Navigation and Boat Handling
This course focuses on improving your knowledge, understanding, and skills in navigation and boat safety topics. It is available in classrooms and online, with both instructor-led sessions and self-study with online instructor support.The 14 modules include study notes and skill-test quizzes to reinforce what you have learned. This structure will deepen your knowledge and understanding of boat handling and navigation. With the boat handling modules, you will better understand your legal responsibilities as a skipper, learn to manage onboard emergencies, learn basic charting, understand and apply collision-avoidance rules, learn anchoring and docking/undocking techniques, and interpret marine weather forecasts and tide and current tables. With the navigation modules, you will: learn to use global coordinates and a magnetic compass; measure distance and direction; determine a route; estimate time to destination; determine your position on the water; understand how to use aids to navigation to find your way on the water; and plan and execute a cruise using paper charts, chartplotters, and/or e-nav apps. An online app (AquaMap) and a chart plotter are available as free downloads.All study materials are available online 24/7. Classroom and online instructor-led versions list host locations and start dates. Self-study versions let you learn at your own pace. Quizzes, interactive exercises, and exams are completed online. An official CanBoat Certificate is issued upon successful completion of the course.
- Available from $325
- Suggested Pre-requisities
Basic Navigation
Learn the fundamentals of traditional and electronic navigation, including navigation using paper charts and electronic devices (e.g., a chart plotter and app-based software). Each section includes course notes, which can be downloaded electronically or printed in booklet format, instructional videos, skill-testing quizzes and practice exercises, and links to supplementary resources, including web-based links and videos related to each topic. Participants must complete the cruise exercises with a chartplotter or tablet/phone navigation app. The course provides options for purchasing apps starting at $14.00. The course, which can be taken online/virtual or in a classroom (where available), is 8 to 9 weeks in length (at the discretion of the instructor team). A final exam is also available.
- Available from $195
- Suggested Pre-requisities
Seamanship and Coastal Navigation (B4)
This course expands your boat-handling and navigation skills. It provides the knowledge, skills, and confidence required for longer coastal voyages on the ocean or larger lakes. The course covers various topics, including managing emergencies, handling challenging weather and environmental conditions, avoiding collisions in unusual circumstances, and using alternative methods for navigation if/when electronic systems fail. The course is instructor-led and offered either online or in-person.
- Available from $295
- Suggested Pre-requisities
Near Shore Marine Navigation Level 2 (B5)
Knowledge of the basics of navigation and planning cruises on a maritime chart is just the start. Expand that knowledge by using a variety of electronic devices to chart your course and enable you to plan your course under tidal, current and windy conditions. By learning more about dead reckoning, fixes and running fixes you will have attained a high degree of proficiency in navigating through coastal waters. In this course we cover GPS, Chart Plotters, Radar, SONAR, Autopilots and more. Note: this course was formerly called Advanced Piloting.
- Available from $295
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Celestial Navigation
Covers the use of a sextant and timepiece to take sights on the sun, moon planets and stars and to plot lines of position using two methods of sight reduction, the Law of Cosines and Sight Reduction Tables. The theory behind celestial navigation is extensively covered, as is the navigator’s daily routine for maintaining the ship’s position. The course will normally take 10 to 12 weeks to complete. Credit for course completion is contingent upon submission of a Sight Folder containing a record of all sights taken, including reduction and plotting, as specified in the course documents.
- Available from $395
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