Planning Your Boating Cruise

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.

Don't let bad weather ruin your day! Learn to forecast and predict the weather. Learn to recognize the early signs of changing weather; how to anticipate storms, squalls, fog, and wind shifts, and become familiar with basic weather elements

Anchoring is the skill of securing your vessel to the bottom through use of line, chain, and one or more anchors.

Learn to confidently boat in safe water in fickle rivers, develop the special skills you need to deal with currents and shallows, know how to maneuver through locks

Marine Navigation teaches you how to chart and follow a course on the water. It is a full course offered by the United States Power Squadrons, America’s Boating Club.