Advanced Piloting

This all-new course continues to build coastal and inland navigation skill, allowing the student to take on more challenging conditions – unfamiliar waters, limited visibility, and extended cruises. GPS is embraced as a primary navigation tool while adding radar, chartplotters, and other electronic navigation tools. As with Piloting, the course includes many in-class exercises, advancing the student’s skills through hands-on practice and learning. Topics covered include:

• Review of skills learned in Piloting.
• Advanced positioning techniques such as advancing a line of position.
• Other electronics:  radar, depth sounders, autopilots, chartplotters, laptop computer software, etc.
• Hazard avoidance techniques using electronics (e.g., “keep out” zones in GPS).
• Collision avoidance using radar and GPS.
• Working with tides: clearances, depth, effects of current.
• Piloting with wind and currents.
• The “Seaman’s Eye” – simple skills for checking that one is on course.

There is a $60 fee which includes course materials. This is the second of the navigational classes focusing on techniques for piloting a boat in coastal and inland conditions.

Starting on Tuesday, 08 March at 18:30
9 class sessions, every Tuesday