While on board our training vessels, students put the text book skills learned in the class room to practical use. This training includes docking, maneuvering while underway, man overboard drills, and navigation. Our basic course meets the coast guard requirements for CPR and first aid training. This section sharpens the keen ability that is required to skipper a vessel through channels, harbors and coastal areas. After these skills are perfected, we take to our training boat for a trip.
Additional study covers tides and currents.
This section covers inshore navigation, instrument navigation, chart navigation, and the operation of other devices such as VHF radio, Loran, GPS, and Radar. Applications are conducted onboard our training vessel. This section includes a hands-on approach to learning and maintaining systems onboard commercial vessels. We walk through and learn the proper inspection of our training vessel and a local 72' excursion vessel. This section covers the theory and application of collision avoidance while operating commercial vessels.