When you’re ready to expand your boating horizons beyond day trips, you’re a cruiser! From an overnighter to a nearby marina or a quiet anchorage to an ocean crossing to a foreign land,
Cruise With Confidence is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to help you plan, prepare, and enjoy the trip.
You’ll learn how to choose the right boat, understand propulsion and electrical systems, and master onboard essentials like electronics, navigation, and communications. From the big picture to practical tips, you’ll develop skills in safety, security, anchoring, and seamanship. Whether under power or sail, you’ll gain confidence to handle emergencies, understand weather, and keep your crew comfortable and happy.
From provisioning and meal planning to chartering and crossing borders, you’ll finish this course ready to chart your own course — calm, capable, and confident at the helm.
Boat Operator Certification
This course is required for the Boat Operator Certification level of Advanced Coastal Navigator (ACN).
Forecasting has improved with technology Using computer weather forecasts, internet resources, weather apps, National Weather Service products, and weather communications.
$34.95The dock is near but have no fear! Leave the anxiety on shore and learn to handle your boat slowly, safely, and confidently in tight quarters. Then practice, practice, practice!
$34.95Handling a boat in a variety of situations…getting on plane, trimming the boat, dealing with rough water, understanding what you can control versus what nature throws at you.
$34.95Learn the special skills needed for river and lake boating. How to “read” a river, cope with river currents, go through locks. Plus the navigation rules unique to river boating.
$34.95Learn how ocean waves are generated, how they affect boat handling, how to access ocean wave data, and how navigation software can include the effect of waves on your route.
$34.95