Advanced Grades
Course |
Description |
Instructor Contact Info and Start Date |
|---|---|---|
| Seamanship is the first of the Advanced Grades courses. The course covers boat handling, knots, splicing and working rope; as well as Rules of the Road, trim and stability, docking, anchoring, towing, marine emergencies, living aboard, etc. | Pending Mike Wiedel 414-353-8240 | |
| Introduces you to safe navigation of your boat. It teaches dead reckoning positioning by calculating time, distance and speed and includes charting a position by taking bearings. It also includes compass use and how to plot and label. | Pending Ron Kraase 414-541-0134 | |
| Picks up where Piloting leaves off with review of compass use, chart work, plotting courses, and determining position using bearings. It also covers danger angles, tides and tide tables, current prediction, and piloting in currents. | Pending Ron Kraase 414-541-0134 | |
| Introduces offshore plotting techniques using celestial navigation, time, the nautical almanac, heavenly bodies, and the sextant. | In Process Ted Smyczek 262-786-2599 | |
| The last of the Advanced Grades, Navigation will supplement, extend and deepen your knowledge of celestial navigation, teach you three methods of sight calculation and link navigational concepts of time, compass, | In Process Ted Smyczek 262-786-2599 |