Boating

Seamanship

Advanced Piloting

Celestial Navigation

Marine Maintenance

VHF Radio (ROC-M)

Fundamentals of Weather

Global Weather

Finding Your Way With GPS

Navigating With GPS

Electronic Charting

Radar for Pleasure Craft

Depth Sounders

BoatPro

Extended Cruising

Seamanship Sail

Pleasure Craft Operators Certificate

 

The Boating Course

This course provides a general introduction to the safe handling of boats of all types, and is the prerequisite to all advanced and elective CPS courses. Once successfully completed, membership in CPS is available to the applicant. The Boating course includes an exam for your Coast Guard Pleasure Craft Operator's Certificate (PCOC). Material covered includes; types of boats, boat handling, government regulations, nautical charts, aids to navigation, rules of the road, elementary chart plotting and calculations, the compass, bearings and fixes safety considerations and equipment, lines and knots anchoring, weather, canals, locks, and manners and customs. 

Length of the Course: 15 weeks 

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Boating Class Schedule Fall 2010

Next Class starts:  September 7, 2010
Location: 

Sutherland Secondary School

1860 Sutherland Avenue
North Vancouver, B.C., V7L 4C2

Time:

Classes are Tuesday evenings,

1845 - 2130 hr.

 

 

 

What to expect in the course

You will be enrolling in an intense 15 weeks of Boating Education. When you have completed this program, you're sense of achievement will, and should, be extremely rewarding.

YOUR COMMITMENT to this course is essential to your success. Beyond the 2 - 2-1/2 hours classroom time each week, you will also need to commit yourself to about 3 hours of homework each week. We have found from past history that the majority of students who attended each class and completed the homework assignments each week, have been successful. This is a demanding course covering the following subjects:

  • Characteristics of boats
  • Licensing, registration, and other requirements
  • Mandatory equipment
  • Optional equipment
  • Ropes, lines, and knots
  • Handling a boat under power
  • Handling a boat under sail
  • Weather
  • Preparing to launch
  • Skipper’s responsibilities before setting out
  • Skipper’s responsibilities when under way
  • Collision Regulations
  • Canadian aids to navigation
  • Emergencies
  • Canals and locks
  • Tides and tidal currents
  • Trailering
  • Winter lay-up
  • Waterskiing
  • Auxiliary boats
  • Checklist for lay-up
  • Pre-launch checklist
  • The magnetic compass
  • Anchors and anchoring

OUR COMMITMENT to you is to assist with any problem areas you may encounter. As volunteers who believe strongly in Safe Boating through Education we want to see you succeed. We have excellent Instructors along with Proctors (members who will be assigned to 3 or 4 students depending on class size) all committed to assisting to your success.

When registering, hold in mind that this is a large investment with large rewards. If you are a boat owner, you will notice an increase in your confidence level after successfully completing this course.

Our Instructors and Proctors look forward to assisting you.

 

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