Safe Boating Instruction in the Kawarthas Since 1959
Seamanship
*Prerequisite: Boating Course - Open only to CPS Members
The Seamanship course (formerly known as the Piloting Course) will be offered starting in the first week of February 2009. This is a great opportunity to broaden your boating skills and make you a more knowledgeable and safer boater.
Classes will run for 10 weeks with an additional twoweeks for Parts 1 and 2 of the final exam. The cost will be $125.00 per student.
Further details will be available here by late December. If you are interested please contact Mel Little at 705-799-1800 or for information.
"Boating got you out there, let Seamanship get you back, the life you save maybe your own!"
The Seamanship Course builds on some of the techniques introduced in the Boating Course. Seamanship uses traditional navigation, GPS fixes, Way Points, along with the introduction of Deviation, in the three homework cruises, and the examination take home cruises.
This course offers: interpretation of charts; the DR plot; bearings, fixes, running fixes, and Collision Regulations; and the exciting concept of plotting and labeling in True and Magnetic, adopted by the CPS Training Department.
Seamanship, explains the skills needed to understand the hazards of weather, wind, waves, tides, and tidal currents and how to deal with them.
When unforeseen circumstances arise such as man-overboard, and medical emergencies, the seamanship course counsels the student, as to where and how to acquire the skills to deal with potentially life-threatening situations, and of course you can "learn the ropes", from knots, hitches, bends, and splices.
