Syllabus

Safety and Navigation

What this course is:

• To point out that safety is your number one priority.

• A learning opportunity with individualized attention and practical, hands-on exercises customized to your needs.

• Taught at the location of your choice, be it your home or boat.

• Designed for the navigator of a vessel to feel competent and confident in safe navigation and boating practices.

• To show critical basics of safe navigation from your port of departure to your cruising destination.

• A way to ensure you feel confident that your crew (spouse or otherwise) has the same levels of competency and confidence in their own skills.

• Not intended to prepare you for a USCG license.

By the end of this course, you will:

• Have a grasp of publications that can help you during your cruises.

• Have an understanding of emergency equipment. 

• Have read the “Rules of the Road” and understand its importance.

• Recognize the importance of accurate “Log Keeping.”

• Have an understanding of operation of your vessel’s navigation electronics.

• Have been shown basic and advanced piloting on paper charts via traditional navigation techniques so you can understand what your plotter is doing. 

• Understand that safety is your top priority.