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).
How to choose a suitable boat for the type of cruising you do. Owning versus chartering. Equipping the boat with appropriate navigation, electrical, and plumbing systems, and more.
$34.95Choosing types of line for your boat, tying the boat to a dock, knowing which lines and knots to use in various situations, plus choosing and tying the ten most useful knots.
$34.95Learn the signs of changing weather, how to anticipate storms, what causes weather, how to read weather maps, what clouds mean, how weather systems move, why winds blow.
$34.95Weather can make or break a day on the water. Learn how to be weather wise by understanding the basic science of meteorology, plus internet resources, weather apps and more.
$100.00