Sarnia
is located in Ontario, Canada on the border with the United States and across
the Bluewater Bridge from Port Huron, Michigan. Members
of Sarnia Power and Sail Squadron boat out of the communities of Brights Grove,
Camlachie, Corunna,
Forest, Grand Bend, Mooretown, Petrolia, Point Edward, Port Franks, Sarnia,
Wyoming, Strathroy and much of Lambton County. Whether
powerboat, sailboat, personal watercraft, jet boat or paddler, Sarnia Squadron Members are often found boating on Lake Huron, Lake
Erie, and Lake St. Clair as well as the Detroit River and St. Clair River.
Others cruise to the North Channel, Georgian Bay, the Trent-Severn Waterway and
Lake Ontario. Local marine facilities to Sarnia include: Bridgeview
Yachting Centre, Sarnia Bay Marina, Sarnia Yacht Club and Lake
Huron Yachts.
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Special
Features
Boating Seminars and Courses
Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons have a
wide array of seminars courses you may select from to increase your boating
enjoyment.
The Approved
Boating Handbook: Boat Pro and its seminar provides you with
the opportunity to prepare for your Pleasure Craft Operator
Card (PCOC) exam.
Clearly the best of the PCOC seminars available, this highly acclaimed
seminar was one of the first to be accredited by the Canadian Coast
Guard.
Crossing the border? CPS is a provider of safe boating courses
approved by both the Canadian Coast Guard and the U.S. National
Association of State Boating Law Administrators.
Upon successful completion you will receive a one year complimentary
Associate Membership to CPS with access to member
benefits associated with this membership.
Get the Pleasure Craft Operator Card today from CPS.
The Maritime Radio
course provides emergency radio procedures, as well as everyday operating
techniques. The course prepares you for the Restricted Operator
Certificate (Maritime) with DSC Endorsement examination.
You will be taught the uses of VHF
radios, choice of frequencies, operation, phonetic alphabet, procedural
words and phrases as well as Digital Selective Calling and the Global
Maritime Distress and Safety System, (DSC/GMDSS).
Be sure that you and your family
take the Maritime Radio course.
For people that already
have a Restricted Operator
Certificate (Maritime), get your DSC certification today.
The new DSC technology is now
available on all new VHF Radios. Take this quick upgrade seminar if
you wish to get your DSC endorsement (required). Covers Digital
Selective Calling and the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System,
(DSC/GMDSS).
Be ready to use the new DSC
technology by taking this upgrade seminar.
The objective of this manual/seminar is to
enable the operator of a recreational small craft to navigate safely and
efficiently to any destination, using primarily a GPS receiver and
conventional charts. It is restricted to only the navigational aspects
of GPS, and may suggest when additional skills are required as a backup.
To select a route to follow, utilizing a GPS
receiver, requires a knowledge of basic navigation principles. Without
such knowledge, the navigator must place complete reliance and blind
trust upon complex equipment and the ability to use it properly, under
all circumstances.
When properly installed and operated, modern
electronic navigation systems are generally very reliable. These
inexpensive and portable hand held systems are available to serve as
primary, back-up, or lifeboat navigation systems.
Although the controlling authorities go to
great lengths to ensure reliability and accuracy; the signals upon which
all such systems depend are not always available. A more common cause of
navigation failure is human error. Many mistakes are made in entering
and in sequencing of data. Incorrect positions or commands are often
inserted and wrong waypoints selected, sometimes with disastrous
results, as the computer does precisely what it is commanded to do.
This course outlines procedures designed to
minimize the possibility of human error in the operation of electronic
navigation equipment.
Canadian Power & Sail
Squadrons' premier course for the recreational boater.
Whether you are interested in
power, sail or canoe, this course is for you. It contains expanded, detailed
boating-safety information. As well, the challenge of plotting and navigation
skills, and the interaction with other boaters all await you in this exciting,
"chock-full-of-info" course. Successful completion of an
"accredited" examination at the end of certain sections will allow you
to achieve operator competency and a Pleasure Craft Operator Card (PCOC), as
well as an offer of CPS Associate Membership. Successful completion of the
examination(s) at the end of the entire course will provide you with the
opportunity of Regular Membership and all its associated benefits, along with
the PCOC.
A graduate of the Piloting Course will have the
theoretical knowledge to be able to handle a boat in rough weather, and to deal
with emergency situations.
Course content: Boating Course subjects are
expanded to include Relative Bearings and the Running Fix; effects of current
and leeway, and new skills in marlinspike and coastal navigation are learned.
Course kit includes: Student Notes, Homework
Folder, Training Chart "A".
You will learn advanced coastal navigation
principles to 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.
Course content: Become familiar with charts; the
compass; steering and timing a course; tides and tidal currents; effects of
current and leeway; methods of determining position; Running Fixes; aids to
navigation; electronic navigational aids, and the sextant.
Course kit includes Student Notes; Homework
Folder; AP Training Chart; Chart No. 1; D.O.T. Tides in Canadian Waters
This course combines the original works of Junior Navigator and Navigator and
applies the sciences of cartography and astronomy to set a course and determine
a position at sea. Emphasis is placed on "how" to navigate and, with
basic math and calculator skills, the student will have little difficulty. For
proper study, the student will require the use of Bowditch, current-year
Nautical Almanac and Star Finder. (These items must be ordered separately). The
student will also require a scientific hand-held calculator with trigonometric
capability.
Course content: Use of the sextant, electronic navigation, the Nautical Almanac,
sight reduction by formula and scientific calculator, the Pilot and Great Circle
charts and much, much more.
Course kit includes: Student notes, homework folder, forms, Sight Reduction
Table, Dip Short Tables and necessary charts.
Do you know what mandatory distress
signals are required for your boat? Do you know how to use them? Can you
signal a distress situation in all conditions (day and night)?
The Distress Signalling seminar will train your
family on the use of flares as well as alternate non-pyrotechnic signals.
Don’t wait until an emergency occurs. Be trained on
Distress Signalling today!
The Maintenance course will expand the average
boat-owner's knowledge of vessel maintenance.
Course content: Seasonal maintenance and repairs to wooden, fibreglass and
metal hulls are stressed. Sections are devoted to maintenance for electrical and
mechanical systems; spars, rigging and ground tackle; fire and safety
protection; moorings and berths; trailers; tools and fittings.
Course kit includes Student Notes and Homework Folder.
This fascinating course focuses on the unique
aspects and challenges of sailing offshore, in order to maximize the enjoyment
and minimize the risks for those on board the boat.
Course content: Passage planning and the voyage; oceanography and the weather;
checklists and repair kits, and Maritime Mobile Nets.
Course kit includes Student Notes and Homework Folder.
This introductory course
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; pilot and cruising under sail (day sailers and keelboats). Fire safety
and sailboat racing are included as additional information.
Course kit includes Student Notes, Homework Folder, and Collision Regulations
The Global Weather Course is designed for those who wish to make ocean crossings or for the student who would just like to gain a more in depth knowledge of meteorology.
While it can be used as a stand alone module, it does assume a certain familiarity with the basic principles of weather. For those who do not possess this knowledge, it would be wise to first take the CPS introductory weather course, "Fundamentals of Weather".
Global Weather consists of six chapters, some highlights of which are shown below:
* Equilibrium in the Atmosphere, explains stability, instability in detail and the effect of atmospheric adiabatic vertical temperature profiles.
* General Circulation, covers terrestrial wind circulation, El Nino, La Nina and Jet Streams.
* Air Masses, deals with their classification, characteristics and their source regions.
* Extra Tropical Cyclones, explains how they are formed and the interaction of the fronts within them.
* Tropical Cyclones, takes the student from the hurricanes of the Atlantic to the typhoons of the Pacific, how they are formed, their dangers and how to react with their approach.
* Forecasting, teaches how to interpret the professional weather map and explains in detail the various aspects of making a personal forecast.
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