Flotilla 57 - Lynnhaven, 5th District (SR)
Virginia Beach, Virginia

Content of Boating Courses

America's Boating Class
1. Introduction to boating
2. Boating laws
3. Personal safety equipment
4. Safe boat handling
5. Navigation (Aids to Navigation, nav rules)
6. Boating problems
7. Trailering, storing, and protecting your boat
8. Hunting and fishing, waterskiing, and river boating

Combo Class: Boating Skills and Seamanship
1. Which boat is for you?
2. Equipment for your boat
3. Trailering your boat
4. Handling your boat
5. Your “highway” signs
6. The rules you must follow
7. Inland boating
8. The rest of our story (small boats, personal watercraft, hypothermia, motorboats and sailboats, carbon monoxide)
9. Introduction to navigation
10. Powering your boat
11. Lines and knots for your boat
12. Weather and boating
13. Your boat’s radio

Combo Class: Sailing Fundamentals
1. Introduction to sailing
2. Basic sailing
3. Safety and seamanship
4. Basic seamanship skills
5. Basic coastal cruising I
6. Basic coastal cruising II
7. Special sailing information

Advanced Coastal Navigation (classroom work and take-home cruise planning project
1. Introduction to coastal navigation
2. The marine magnetic compass
3. The nautical chart
4.The navigator’s tools & instruments
5.Dead reckoning
6. Piloting
7. Current sailing
8. Tides and tidal currents
9. Radio navigation
10. Navigation reference publications
11. Fuel and voyage planning
12. Reflections ssss

Contact: Roy Maurer: E-mail preferred: maurer57flotilla@cox.net Call (757)630-5150 or (757)340-5435 to leave message), (or Flotilla Assistant Staff Officer for Public Education Mike Eberhardt, at [757] 463-6366, or e-mail: pattimikeeber@msn.com)