Courses

Our courses are held at the Stormont Yacht Club, Long Sault, Ontario and/or The Voyageur Bus Terminal Office, Cornwall. Course availability is determined by the number of people interested. Email inquiries to Cornwall Power and Sail Squadron.

Boat Pro $60.00
Courses now scheduled for:
February 17, 18, 19 and March 24, 25, 26
Phone 613-930-9017 or 613-932-0475, or email chaputlb@sympatico.ca

This is the basic course on boating safety. On passing this course you will qualify for the Canadian Coast Guard Pleasure Craft Operators Card. This is required by law for anyone over 16 years of age as of Sept. 1st 1999. After passing Boat Pro you may become an associate member of CPS.
Fall and Spring Boat Pro courses are usually held at the CPS Office, Voyageur Bus Terminal, Tollgate Road, Cornwall. For more information, please call Jean-Claude Bard at 613-930-9017.

Duration: 8 to 10 hours of classroom instruction - Prerequisite: None

The Boating Course $165.00

This Premier Course for recreational boaters provides a general introduction to the safe handling of boats of all types, and is the prerequisite to all advanced and elective CPS courses. Once successfully completed, membership in CPS is available to the applicant. Material covered includes: Types of boats, Boat handling, Government regulations, Nautical charts, Aids to navigation, Rules of the road, Elementary chart plotting and calculations, Compass bearings and fixes, Safety considerations and equipment, Lines and knots, Anchoring, Weather, Canals, Locks, and Manners and customs. PCOC exam is included in this course. For more information please call 613-932-0475 or email chaputlb@sympatico.ca

Duration: 14 weeks of classroom instruction - Prerequisite: None

Seamanship $85.00
NOTE: COURSE BEGINS 10TH FEBRUARY. We apologise for the short notice.
Phone 613-933-0148 or email argopatjoe@sympatico.ca

This course replaces Piloting, runs for 12 evenings and enlarges on the skills learned in Boating: Seamanship provides the theoretical knowledge for the practical skipper. It includes charting & new plotting skills, relative bearings, running fixes, effects of current and leeway and marlin-spike. This course also covers hull forms and performance, buoyancy, stability, legal responsibilities, weather, adverse conditions, emergencies, aids to navigation, and controllable/non controllable forces. For more information please call 613-933-0148 or email argopatjoe@sympatico.ca

Duration: 12 weeks of classroom instruction - Prerequisite: CPS membership

Advanced Piloting

This course teaches advanced coastal navigation principles to enable you to know where your vessel is at all times. 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 introduction to the sextant.

Duration: 13 - 15 weeks of classroom instruction - Prerequisite: Piloting course

Celestial Navigation

This course 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 more.

Duration: 24 weeks of classroom instruction - Prerequisite: Advanced Piloting

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Maritime Radio Course $45
VHF Marine Radio with DSC Endorsement now scheduled for:
Three evenings April 6th, 7th, and 9th
Phone J.P.Paquette at 613-675-4177 no later than 20th March.

This course teaches the phonetic alphabet, as well as the correct radio-telephone operating procedure. It will enable a person to pass Industry Canada's Restricted Radio-Telephone Operator Certificate Exam, which is supervised by a recognised examiner, and is given at the conclusion of the session.
The course comes complete with VHF/DSC/GMDSS components. A Digital Selective Calling (DSC) simulator is used to demonstrate its application. For more information, please call Jean-Pierre Paquette, at 613-675-4177.

Duration: Three evening classes - Prerequisite: None

Other Courses

Some courses offer family discount on request

Other courses offered when numbers permit:
Weather
Distress Signaling
GPS Navigation
Boating in Inland Waters
Offshore Cruising
For more information, please call Lloyd Chaput at 613-932-0475.