PSPS Member Advanced Grade Courses

Member Advanced Grade Courses

In addition to its Public Education and Member Elective Courses, PSPS teaches a series of Advanced Courses for those who wish to continue their skills in boating. Become a member and indulge your love of boating.

PSPS Classroom

There are Five Advanced Grade Courses offered by PSPS. They are designed to be taken in the listed sequence because each builds on skills taught in the previous course.

Seamanship covers basic deck seamanship, marlinspike (knots and ropes), anchoring and

rafting, basic boat care and maintenance, and nautical and USPS customs and etiquette.

Piloting is the first and most basic navigation course, covering chart reading, course plotting and basic coastal or inland

navigation, including basic GPS usage. This course goes into more detail than the charting information covered in the public courses.

Advanced Piloting covers more advanced coastal navigation techniques,

navigation in tides and currents, and more advanced GPS usage.

Junior Navigation teaches the basics of offshore navigation, including basic

celestial navigation using the sun and offshore course planning.

Navigation is the most advanced navigation course taught by USPS,

covering more advanced celestial navigation techniques, emergency navigation, and additional sight reduction techniques.

Remember, your input helps the Education Department provide the courses that meet our membership’s interests. Let us hear from YOU. Contact Robert Stanley, Education Officer, at 252-940-8107 or email PSPS Education. Or utilize the Education Blog link in the right column and send in your course suggestions or comments

Visit our Calendar for dates and locations of the courses planned for 2010.