ADVANCED GRADES

2012

Advanced Grades

2012

All USPS Advanced Grades classes are open to both members and non-members.  For all USPS courses, instruction is provided by volunteers at no charge.  Members receive a significant discount on charges for course materials.  Membership applications will be available at the first session of each class.

Call the course chairman for course materials pricing information and to register for classes.  Advance registration is important to assure that we are able to order and receive sufficient course materials for all students in a class.  If there are insufficient students registered for a class, the class may be postponed or offered for self-study.

Seamanship

Starting Monday March 5, 2012, 7PM

Orchard Park Health and Rehabilitation Center

4755 South 48th Street

Tacoma, WA 98409

Instructor: Pat LeMagie

This is an 8 session course covering basic deck seamanship, marlinspike (knots and ropes), anchoring and rafting, basic boat care and maintenance, and nautical and USPS customs and etiquette.  Class size will be 8 to 10 students (couples willing to share a set of course materials will count as 1 student).

A second Seamanship course is planned starting in September.

Piloting

Starting Tuesday April3, 7PM (no classes on 4/24 or 5/22 TPS meeting nights)

Orchard Park Health and Rehabilitation Center

4755 South 48th Street

Tacoma, WA 98409

Instructors: Dean Skaggs and Kevin Kennedy

This 10 session course is the first and most basic navigation course, covering chart reading, course plotting, and basic coastal or inland navigation, including basic GPS usage. This course goes into more detail than the charting information covered in the public courses.

Advanced Piloting

Starting Early September, exact dates TBD

Instructors: Kevin Kennedy and Dean Skaggs

This 10 session course covers more advanced coastal navigation techniques, navigation in tides and currents, and more advanced GPS usage.

Junior Navigation

Dates and times TBD.  Advanced registration and materials purchase required.

This course teaches the basics of offshore navigation, including basic celestial navigation using the sun and offshore course planning using both computer and paper methods.

Navigation

Dates and times TBD.  Advanced registration and materials purchase required.

This is the most advanced navigation course taught by USPS, covering more advanced celestial navigation techniques, emergency navigation, additional sight reduction techniques and advanced computerized techniques.

Additional Class information will be posted as it becomes available.

For information contact Advanced Grades Chairman Kevin Kennedy.

Phone: 253-927-2389

Email: kevin.kennedy@pobox.com

Kevin Kennedy @ 253-927-2389
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