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).
Car and marine GPS aren’t the same. Learn how to choose a chart plotter and use this tool to create waypoints, build and execute routes, and check your progress along the way.
$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.
$100.00Important for offshore boaters, the 500 millibar upper air chart will help you predict upper-level wind speed and direction, trough and ridge patterns, and the 5640 storm track line.
$34.95All about marine batteries – lead acid to lithium – including maintenance, charging, replacing, and safety.
$34.95How 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.
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