Ready, Set, Launch!
$59.95
Be ready for your boating season with this special package of our most popular seminars: Introduction to Navigation, Weather for Boaters 2023, and All About Marine Radio! You'll learn how to read charts and navigate safely with your GPS, anticipate changing weather, use your VHF for marine communications, and much more.
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All About Marine Radio
Know how to use your VHF marine radio. You’ll need it in an emergency and for important ship-to-ship communications.
What's included?- How VHF radios work and their controls
- Using the correct channels
- Advanced methods of communication
- How digital selective calling (DSC) equipped radios work and their controls
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Introduction to Navigation
Navigating roadways and waterways is not the same. If you’re comfortable using GPS for car trips, don’t assume you’re automatically ready to use GPS on a boat. This seminar will help you learn some of the differences. You’ll get an overview of how to use electronic (and even paper) charts to plan a safe route with waypoints, how to navigate along the route, and how to check underway that you’re on course. Topics include:
- Understanding nautical charts
- The compass rose and magnetic variation
- Interpreting aids to navigation
- Establishing waypoints and planning routes
- Using chartplotters and multifunction displays
- Planning your voyage electronically
- Electronic navigation while underway
- What to do when the chartplotter quits working
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Weather for Boaters - 2023
Don't let bad weather ruin your day! Learn to forecast and predict the weather.
What's included?- What causes weather
- How weather systems move
- Why winds blow
- Why fog forms
- What clouds tell us
- How storms and fronts create foul weather
- How to read weather maps
- How to refine them using your own observations
Boat Operator Certification
All ABout Marine Radio and Weather for Boaters 2023 are required for the Boat Operator Certification level of Inland Navigator (IN)