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Pleasure Craft Operators Card (PCOC)
Get Your PCOC. Get on the Water.Operating a motorized pleasure craft? You need proof of operator competency—regardless of your age or engine size.Our Transport Canada-accredited Pleasure Craft Operator Card (PCOC) course gives you the essential knowledge to boat safely and legally, from safety equipment and buoy systems to boating regulations and emergency procedures.Create your account. Complete the course. Get your temporary digital certificate. Go boating!Have a discount code? Enter it at checkout.
- Available from $49.95
Maritime Radio Certificate - ROC(M)
The Maritime Radio course teaches emergency radio procedures and everyday operating techniques. Learn all about the uses of marine radios, choice of frequencies, operation, phonetic alphabet, procedural words and phrases, as well as Digital Selective Calling and the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System, (DSC/GMDSS). All mariners, including recreational boaters, will want to take advantage of the many features and capabilities of this innovative form “automatic” radio. Secure your lifeline. Be sure that you and your family take the Maritime Radio course. This complete package will prepare you for the Restricted Operator Certificate (Maritime) with DSC Endorsement exam which is included as part of this courses. To operate a maritime radio, you need the certificate. It's the law!
- Available from $165
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
Mini Course
Boating in Tidal Waters
For your safety, your crew’s, and your boat’s, it’s essential to understand tides and currents before heading into tidal waters. Failing to plan properly can leave you grounded—or worse, snapping your mast under a bridge or utility line. This mini-course offers a solid introduction to tidal navigation, helping you avoid costly, stressful mistakes. While we can’t cover every detail of tides and currents here, you’ll gain the core knowledge needed to boat safely in tidal zones. Perfect for: Boaters heading into coastal waters or tidal rivers.
- Available from $45
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
- Suggested Pre-requisities
Boat and Engine Maintenance
Keep the water on the other side of the wall! From spark plugs to bottom paint, this course covers all the basics for “do it yourself” boaters. This course will equip you with the knowledge required to prevent onboard problems, carry out specialized tasks and tackle both short-term troubleshooting as well as long-term boat care. It features practical information and handy tips suitable for both new and existing boat owners. The dream of owning, maintaining and using your own boat without great expense can be achieved through the completion of the Boat & Engine Maintenance Course.
- Available from $245
Marine Electrical Maintenance
Learn how to maintain electrical systems in your boat properly and safely. Gain a solid foundation in wiring, direct current systems, and alternating current systems found on recreational vessels. It also covers galvanic and stray current corrosion, lightning protection, interference suppression and electrical troubleshooting. Learn how to maintain electrical systems in your boat properly and safely. Gain a solid foundation in wiring, direct current systems, and alternating current systems found on recreational vessels. It also covers galvanic and stray current corrosion, lightning protection, interference suppression and electrical troubleshooting. Enrol in the Marine Electrical Maintenance Course with your local Canadian Power and Sail Squadron, because PEACE OF MIND IS PRICELESS!
- Available from $245
Sailing
Do you want to learn more about sailing? Do you want to improve your sailing skills and your understanding of how sails work? This Sailing Course covers the practical and theoretical basics of sailing and sailing seamanship. The range of topics is broad: from a description of different sailboat rigs, sail plans, hull types, and rigging to stability, balance, and the physics of sailing; from sailing at different points of sail to handling heavy weather and storm conditions; from spinnaker handling to reefing; from leaving the dock to mooring and anchoring. It also covers sailing safety, navigation rules, and sailing tactics Whether you are a new sailor or you are an experienced sailor and want to increase your sailing knowledge and skills, this course is for you.
- Available from $220
- Suggested Pre-requisities
Extended Cruising
Extended Cruising is an essential first step in understanding the elements of the long-distance passage making lifestyle under sail or power. Through this course you will become confident in the boat you select by understanding seaworthiness, stability, and other design concepts. You will gain an awareness of the maintenance required for critical systems, passage planning, provisioning, and visiting foreign countries, safety issues, emergency preparedness and weather tips. If you want to cruise coastal waters, experience remote anchorages far from home or explore countries across oceans, Extended Cruising provides you with a deeper understanding of the skills necessary for confident, safe passages.
- Available from $240
- Suggested Pre-requisities
Mini Course
Tropical Weather for Boaters
The mini-course is designed to be done in one sitting of about 90 minutes. Many boaters like to spend all or part of their winters sailing in tropical waters, and no doubt wonder what sort of weather they might encounter. The meteorology behind winter weather in the Tropical Zone is very much different from that which we experience here in the mid-latitudes. This seminar gives provides a quick review of mid-latitude weather, and then explains the differences that we would find in the tropics, and why they are different. A good follow up of this course would be Weather for Boaters which is a multi week course with Tutor support.
- Available from $45
Mini Course
Celestial Navigation in a Nutshell
The Mini-Course is designed to be done in one sitting of about 90 minutes. Before electronic navigation aids like GPS and electronic chartplotters came along, coastal sailors plotted fixes by using natural and man-made references, such as lighthouses, buoys, church steeples, radio/TV towers, and so on, that were plotted in their exact locations on paper navigation charts. They did this by taking quick-succession bearings on two or more of these objects, thus producing lines of position (LOPs) that crossed each other at some point. When these LOPs were plotted on the paper chart, the sailor could see the fix, indicating the boat’s position. This process is called getting a terrestrial fix. However, if the sailor is in the middle of an ocean, there are no lighthouses or church steeples. There is a solution however, and as the Friendly Giant used to say, “Look up … way up,” and there are all those heavenly bodies, “lighthouses in the sky.”
- Available from $45
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