Elective Courses
Course Schedule
This course is not scheduled at this time
For more information, please contact:
seo@abcpalmbeach.org
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education…..
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Cruising and Cruise Planning
Learn what it takes to go beyond a weekend overnight cruise or even a week or so of marina hopping. Prepare yourself to leave your normal cruising areas and comfort zones. Enjoy safe and extended cruises on both inland and coastal waters.
This course is designed for boaters who cruise on either a sail or power boat, owned or chartered.
What’s Included?
· Cruise preparation and planning · Crew and provisioning
· Boat and equipment · Voyage management
· Anchors and anchoring · Communications
· Security · Navigation
· Chartering · Weather
· Cruising outside the U.S.A. · And more…
Course Fee: $80 USPS members, $120 2 members sharing materials, $160 non-members
This course usually continues for 12 sessions
Where: Anchorage Park Activities Building, 603 Anchorage Dr., North Palm Beach, FL.
Sail
Learn about basic sailboat designs and nomenclature, rigging, and safety from experienced USPS sailors. Then tackle the physical aspects of sailing forces and techniques, sail applications, marlinespike, helmsmanship, and handling of difficult sailing conditions. This course will benefit non-sailors as well as novice and experienced sailors.
What’s Included?
· Types of sailboat rigs and hull shapes, including sail configurations and standing rigging
· Wind and water forces affecting sailboat stability and balance
· Sail shape and tuning the standing rigging
· Steering and helmsmanship
· Sailing upwind, downwind and spinnaker handling
· Heavy weather sailing and storm conditions
· Boat operations including docking, anchoring and safety issues.
Course Fee: $80 USPS members, $120 2 members sharing materials, $160 non-members
This course continues for 12 sessions.
Where: North Palm Beach Public Library, 303 Anchorage Drive, North Palm Beach, FL.
Course Schedule
The next course starts:
8 January, 2024
7 pm – 9:30 pm
and continues for 12 classes
Come for the boating
education…..
Stay for the friends
Course Schedule
This course is not scheduled at this time
Come for the boating
education…..
Stay for the friends
Weather
The safety and comfort of those who venture out on the water have always been weather dependent. In this course, students will become keener observers of the weather, but weather observations only have meaning in the context of the basic principles of meteorology—the science of the atmosphere. The course focuses on how weather systems form, behave, move, and interact with one another and reflects the availability of all sorts of weather reports and forecasts on the internet. This is a general weather course benefiting those sitting in their living rooms, as much as those standing behind the helm.
What’s Included?
· The atmosphere: temperature and heat
· Wind, pressure, and waves
· Water, humidity and fog
· Stability, clouds, and precipitation
· Thunderstorms, tornadoes, lightning and optical effects
· Mid-latitude weather and storms
· Tropical weather and storms
Course Fee: $80 USPS members, $120 2 members sharing materials, $160 non-members
This course usualy continues for 10 sessions
Where: Anchorage Park Activities Building, 603 Anchorage Drive, North Palm Beach, FL