Shallotte River Sail
and Power Squadron
A unit of United States Power Squadrons® Sail and Power Boating
America's Boating Club®
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A unit of United States Power Squadrons® Sail and Power Boating America's Boating Club® |
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Boating is fun ... we'll show you how. |
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Elective Courses
design and construction, operating principals, maintenance and repair of
gasoline and diesel engines. Various systems such as fuel, electrical,
cooling and lubrication will be studied. The
purpose
is to make the student more resourceful but not a
mechanic.
Sail - This course teaches terminology, types
of rigs and 
hulls, signals and rules of the road, theory of sailing, balance
of hull and sail, stability, true and apparent wind, points of sailing,
handling, anchoring, mooring and docking, laying up and fitting out.
This course is divided into two modules.
knowledge about a boat's electrical and electronic
systems, including wiring, grounding, electrolysis, batteries and their
care. Also covered are depth finders, marine radio telephones, radar,
Loran, SATNAV, GPS, and advanced systems for electronic
navigation.
courses as applied to planning for and actually
going on a cruise. New material is also provided to assist with practical
approaches to long range cruising.
Each presentation is to be given on a topic from one of the public boating
classes with the intent that upon completion of the course every student will
be qualified to teach or proctor at a squadron boating class.
Weather - This course teaches an
awareness of weather
phenomena, how to read weather maps and the sky, and
how to understand and anticipate weather developments. The atmosphere
and its characteristics, global weather and other factors that effect
forecasting are studied, as well as clouds, air masses, fronts, storms and
fog.
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