This course will provide a comprehensive deep dive into the essential seamanship and watchstanding tools and techniques needed to expand your cruising horizons.  Course topics include:

• Responses to casualties underway including fire, flooding, and man overboard
• Lessons learned from recent mishaps
• Applying bridge resource management concepts to the cruising vessel
• What electronics we really need for safe watchstanding
• Internal and external communications procedures—how to REALLY talk on the VHF radio
• Digital Selective Calling procedures
• Emergency communications
• Configuring your electronics for collision avoidance
• Essential collision avoidance skills including a focus on the pivotal Navigation Rules of the Road that every boater needs to know, taught in a way that won’t put you to sleep and will serve to create lasting applicability, and debunking the common myths of the Rules
• Bridge opening procedures and do’s and don’t’s
• Anchoring procedures; choosing the correct anchor type; kellets
• Recommended reading for long range cruisers
• And more!

This is a 201/301 level course for intermediate and advanced boaters and assumes the fundamentals of onboard vessel equipment and watchstanding underway are already well established.