Is your boat secured and ready for hurricanes and severe storms? Hurricanes and severe storms bring extreme weather conditions that can damage or destroy your boat. Learn how you can protect your boat from the ravages of wind, waves, torrential rain, tidal surges and high water. You’ll learn to develop a plan and take action to protect your boat from a damaging storm.
What's included?
Everything you need to cruise safely and confidently .This course covers: planning, boat selection, onboard systems, navigation, safety, anchoring, weather, provisioning, and more.
$100.00An advanced seminar that goes beyond the basics into the science of weather. Learn about the dynamics of storms using such tools as Skew-T plots, sounding data, and weather radar
$34.95Important 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.
$34.95Learn 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.
$34.95A comprehensive study of how ocean currents and tides affect navigation. Use navigation software when planning and underway to evaluate current impacts on your route.
$34.95