Boat course recommendations.

[Keith Brown]

Pre-recs?

Power Squadron. Boating 3 or equivalent are suggested. The basic use of parallel rulers, course plotter etcetera. The Boating 3 course was excellent. About half of the course (4 evenings plus of minus were devoured to navigation. For me it was a steep learning curve and absolutely nessary as a prerequisite. For someone who has a good understanding of chart work and plotting it's probably okay to enroll. There is nothing that stops you from enrolling as the prerequisites are suggested. However a student in my boating 3 class came to the class without boating 2 and dropped out after two classes because they simply couldn't catch up.

 

[Keith Brown]

Pre-recs?

See above, I forgot to attach your post

 

[kaelc]

See above, I forgot to attach your post

Thanks. Likely too much for me to catch up on then. I need to get some basic courses done, first.

 

[BruceSt]

Thanks neilvictoria and ClintR for the recommendations. Most of my on-water teaching time the last few years has been coaching owners on their own vessels. I am based in Sidney, however, I have travelled to the mainland and up island for day courses.
https://www.cruising.bc.ca/

 

[albravo2]

Hopefully reviving an old thread. I'm looking for the guide's trifecta (SVOP, ROC-M, First Aid). I admit I haven't been to the end of the internet searching but I can't find anything offered within the next month or two.

Online would be my preference so I don't have to travel. I have a fair amount of boating and fishing experience so I don't feel that I would have to be in a classroom setting to derive value from the class.

I'm 93rd on the waiting list for Safer Ocean's March 31 online SVOP class so I do have that in my back pocket;-)

Any recommendations appreciated. Allan

 

[casper5280]

Hopefully reviving an old thread. I'm looking for the guide's trifecta (SVOP, ROC-M, First Aid). I admit I haven't been to the end of the internet searching but I can't find anything offered within the next month or two.

Online would be my preference so I don't have to travel. I have a fair amount of boating and fishing experience so I don't feel that I would have to be in a classroom setting to derive value from the class.

I'm 93rd on the waiting list for Safer Ocean's March 31 online SVOP class so I do have that in my back pocket;-)

Any recommendations appreciated. Allan

Where are you. There are courses offered in a lot of different areas.

 

[seachicken]

Hopefully reviving an old thread. I'm looking for the guide's trifecta (SVOP, ROC-M, First Aid). I admit I haven't been to the end of the internet searching but I can't find anything offered within the next month or two.

Online would be my preference so I don't have to travel. I have a fair amount of boating and fishing experience so I don't feel that I would have to be in a classroom setting to derive value from the class.

I'm 93rd on the waiting list for Safer Ocean's March 31 online SVOP class so I do have that in my back pocket;-)

Any recommendations appreciated. Allan

I did my ROC-M online while away at work. I used CanBoat Nanaimo. Alexa did the zoom meeting for the final exam. I knew the phonetic alphabet already so it really didn't take long and I was pretty happy with the process.

 

[albravo2]

Where are you. There are courses offered in a lot of different areas.

I'm in Squamish but can travel lower mainland or the island if I have to. Hoping for an online option.