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Basic Navigation + Boat Handling
Vancouver Power Squadron
Vancouver Squadron

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Basic Navigation + Boat Handling

Tuesday evenings, Jan 20 to Apr 20, 2025
Fee: $375, CPS member: $318.75
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Classes are held at:
Prince of Wales School
2250 Eddington Dr.
Vancouver, B.C.
(two blocks west of Nanton Ave. & Arbutus St.)

This course focuses on improving your knowledge, understanding, and skills in navigation and boat safety topics. It covers the fundamentals of traditional navigation including understanding global coordinates, using a magnetic compass, and planning a cruise using paper charts. Boat handling topics include operator and crew responsibilities, managing onboard emergencies, collision avoidance rules, anchoring techniques, docking/undocking techniques, and understanding marine weather forecasts, and tide/current tables. A new addition is the teaching and application of navigation with electronic devices, such as phones, tablets, and chart plotters. The course includes quizzes to check your understanding of the topics, navigation practice exercises, course notes, and a final exam, that if you complete with 75% or higher, may lower your boat insurance.

Courses offered by CPS

Introductory:
Boating 1: Boating Basics (Pleasurecraft Operator's Card)
Basic Navigation + Boat Handling
Maritime Radio Operator Course

Advanced:
Boating 4: Near Shore Marine Navigation Level 1(previously called Seamanship)
Boating 5: Near Shore Marine Navigation, level 2 (previously called Advanced Pilot)
Boating 6 - Offshore Marine Navigation, Level 1 (previously called Junior Navigator)
Boating 7 - Offshore Marine Navigation, Level 2 (previously called Global Navigation)

Elective:
Boat and Engine Maintenance
Marine Electrical Maintenance
Sailing
Introduction to Weather for Recreational Boaters
Extended Cruising
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