TRAINING COURSES - General Descriptions - Followed by Scheduled Offerings for the 2007 Training Year...
These courses, for the recreational boater, can be held at various locations if sufficient interest is shown. Normally 6 participants are required to hold any course. The courses offered through the Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons are described first, followed by the schedule (dates and times), of the courses selected by Bluenose Squadron to offer during our up-coming training year. Check them out and sign up for a course to enjoy with fellow enthusiastic boaters during the non-boating part of the year.
Whether you are interested in powerboats, sailing vessels or kayaks, this course is for you! The Boating Course provides indepth boat operation and boat safety training. As well, you will experience the challenge of plotting, and navigation using official Government charts. Best of all you will interact and make new friends with fellow recreational boaters while taking part in Canada's premier boating course.
The accredited Canadian Coast Guard exam is available with the course for those who have not yet obtained their Pleasure Craft Operator's Card (PCOC). Passing the final Boating Exam offers you the first year CPS Membership and its associated benefits.
Course Content: safety, rules of the sea, boat handling, compass, plotting,navigation and more.....
Course Cost: $185 per person. Includes Student Notes, Homework Folder, Training Chart, Chart No. 1, Collision Regulations, Canadian Aids to Navigation, CPS Course Plotter, PCOC card, etc. Family member (second person) is $90 when sharing materials.
Prerequisite: CPS Boating Course. Navigation (piloting) is the science and art of directing the boat's movements safely from one point to another. This course allows the participant to build on skills learned in the Boating Course. It covers additional material on aids to navigation, anchoring, storm tactics, emergencies, etc. Various running fixes are covered as well as navigation in tides and current. Hull designs, propellers, rudders and hull shape are covered.The magnetic compass variation and the principal sources of deviation and methods for removing gross deviation and swinging the compass are discussed.
Course Cost: $105 per person for a Canadian Power and Sail Squadron member. Includes Student Notes, Homework Folder, and Training Charts. Fee is $145 for reinstated CPS member which includes the membership with the same training kit provided.
Prerequisite: CPS Boating and Piloting Courses. The advanced coastal navigation principles learned will enable you to know , at all times, where you are. The vessel's position can be determined by using landmarks and aids to navigation - allowing for current , leeway, tides, and tidal currents. The course will emphasize more chart familiarization, the compasses, steering and timing a course, tides and tidal currents, effects of current and leeway, and methods of fixing position. More work will be covered with various fixes, additional aids to navigation, electronic navigation aids including radar and sextant basics. Duration is twelve weeks.
Course Cost: $105 per person for Canadian Power and Sail Squadron members. Includes Student Notes, Homework Folder, and Training Chart A, Chart No. 1, and Tides in Canadian Waters. Fee is $145 for reinstated CPS member which includes the membership with the same training kit provided.
Prerequisite: Open to all.A well-maintained boat ensures boater safety and a great deal of personal satisfaction. This course will deal with many specific problems provided by the participants plus the extensive course material. And the course material will deal with seasonal maintenance, care of hulls, care of the engine, electrical and electronic equipment care, and care of other systems such as plumbing, rigging sails etc. The goal is not to develop “do it yourself “ boat owners but provide details to do more hands on if you wish and to better understand your boat and the good care it needs for safe and trouble-free operation. An extensive annual checklist / preventative maintenance schedule is provided. Course duration is 12 to 14 weeks. Successful completion earns a Marine Maintenance Certificate.
In addition two Saturday afternoons will be devoted to "hands on" system maintenance demonstrations on member boats at Gold River Marina.
Course Cost: $90 per person for Canadian Power and Sail Squadron Members. Includes Student Notes and Homework Folder. Fee is $110 per person for a non CPS member with the same training kit provided.
Prerequisite: Open to all.This introductory course offered by CPS - Bluenose Squadron will teach some of the basic sailing techniques for safe operation under various conditions, and will encourage the participant to become a more competent sailor. Course content: Spars and rigging, sails and theory of sail action, sailboat handling, piloting and cruising under sail (day sailors and keelboats). Fire safety, sailboat racing and essential racing rules are included as additional information. Course duration is 10 weeks.
Course Cost: $95 per person for Canadian Power and Sail Squadron Members. Includes Student Notes, Homework Folder and Collision relugations. Fee is $115 per person for a non CPS member with the same training kit provided.
Prerequisite: Open to all.This weather course is designed as an entry course for the mariner, with concepts presented in a way that all will understand. Learn how weather develops and what to anticipate as changes are observed to be taking place. Identify the clouds, the "signposts of the sky"and what they mean. Learn forcasting and and how to interpret a forcast. You will also be exposed to what local weather phenomena are particular to our waters. This course builds on preparation for participants interested in taking the Global Weather Course. Course duration 8 weeks.
Course Cost: $80 per person for Canadian Power and Sail Squadron Members. Includes Student Notes and Homework Folder. Fee is $95 per person for a non CPS member with the same training kit provided.
SCHEDULE for the 2008 TRAINING YEAR
has yet to be determined.
If you are interested in a particular course, please contact Joe Surette, Training officer, at seasalt@eastlink.ca to let him know. It will help us plan our schedule.
The following WAS our course schedule for
2007, to give you an idea of what we may offer in 2008.
----Chester Basin starting 31 January 2007, from 7:00 to 9:30pm, (Wednesdays) for 12 to 14 weeks
----Location Forest Heights Community School
----Instructor Ed Sulis, phone contact 678-4609
----Chester Basin starting 29 January 2007, from 7:00 to 9:30pm, (Mondays) for 14 weeks
----Location Forest Heights Community School
----Instructor Chris Benoy, phone contact 275-5635
----Bridgewater starting 30 January 2007, from 7:00 to 9:30pm, (Tuesdays) for 12 to 14 weeks
----187 Harold Whynot Road (Airfield Engineering Sqn. Building)
----Instructors Frank Edison
----Not offered in 2007
----Location NA
----Instructor NA
----Register NA
----Not offered in 2007
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----Instructor NA
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ONE / TWO DAY SEMINARS - Spring 2007
Note: These
seminars are day-long training sessions and are being held at Forest Heights
Community School just north of Chester Basin on Hwy 12 and are scheduled on
Saturdays during April and May 2007. Each seminar starts at 0900 hrs and will
be over by 1600 to 1700 hrs. As these seminars run the full day, bring lunch
and refreshments for breaks. To register, call Chester Recreation and Parks
at (902) 275- 3490.
All persons who operate VHF radio equipment must obtain a Restricted Radiotelephone Operator's Certificate. Topics covered include the phonetic alphabet, distress calls, radio communication and operating procedures, Digital Selective Calling ( DSC ) and much more. On successful completion of Industry Canada's examination you will receive a Restricted Radio Operator's Certificate with the DSC endorsement.
Participants should pick up their course booklet and homework from the Municipality of Chester Recreation and Parks Department at least one week prior to the seminar to review the course material and complete homework.
Seminar Time: Saturday, April
28, 2007 from 9:00 to 4:30
Seminar Cost: CPSS members
$50 Non CPSS members $60
This two day short course, offered by CPSS Bluenose Squadron, is aimed at
the boater who has some knowledge of basic navigation and wants to take advantagee
of a GPS unit, while continuing to plot positions on the traditional paper
chart.
Within the course manual and CD provided you will find ample explanations
of the system that makes the Global Positioning System so effective as a navigational
aid and methods of extracting the maximum navigational information from your
equipment. Improved position information, course planning, and real time speed
/ direction data adds to your boating safety and cruising enjoyment.
Have your GPS receiver and manual and Mahone Bay chart 4381 with you as practice exercises are incorporated in the sessions.Seminar Time: Two Saturdays in 2007, if sufficient interest, from 9:00 to 4:30
Seminar Cost: CPSS members $50 Non CPSS members $60
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For Additional Information Contact:
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| South Shore Area |
Richard Novossiltzeff
Ivan Carey
Joe Surette |
(902) 531-2150
(902) 634-9126
(902) 543-7463 |
| In the Valley |
Ed Sulis
David Lee |
(902) 678-4609
(902) 847-3334 |
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