Basic Navigation & Boat Handling:
Hands-On Skills for Safe Boating
The essential course for novice and experienced navigators modernized for today's tools and challenges.
When: Tuesdays, starting November 25, 2025 | 7–9 PM (12 weeks)
Where: University of New Brunswick (UNB), Room TBA (details forthcoming)
Member - Registration $236
https://tinyurl.com/MemberBNBH
Non-Member - Sign In & Registration $295
https://tinyurl.com/NonMemberBNBH
Why This Course?
Our revamped program builds on two decades of success from the popular Boating 2 & 3
courses. You'll master traditional seamanship while gaining cutting-edge electronic
navigation skills:
● Practice cruises with chartplotters, tablets, and smartphone apps.
● Enhanced boat handling for confident skipper and crew roles.
● Exclusive access to online resources and tools to reinforce weekly lessons.
Member - Registration $236
https://tinyurl.com/MemberBNBH
Non-Member - Sign In & Registration $295
https://tinyurl.com/NonMemberBNBH
Contact Gaston Damecour
(506) 444-1122
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• Free Audit Seats for members who are past students.
• Discounts for second family members.
Basic Navigation & Boat Handling is a modernization of what was our most popular and successful navigation and seamanship course for over 2 decades (Boating 2 and 3).
Significant improvements to electronic navigation content include new practice cruises using chartplotters, tablets and smartphone-based apps.
You still get the traditional seamanship skills as listed in Table of Content below. Boat handling (seamanship) content changes will better prepare students to safely undertake key skipper and crew responsibilities.
Basic Navigation & Boat Handling students now have access to online resources and learning tools which compliment their weekly class.
Member - $236
https://tinyurl.com/MemberBNBH
Non-Member - $295
https://tinyurl.com/NonMemberBNBH
NOTE: Registration is best done on an iPad, a laptop or a desktop computer. Some Smart Phone users report an issue opening the above link. In that case, either try the link on a laptop, iPad, computer or contact Jane at coordinates below for more information.
Still have questions?
Contact: Gaston Damecour, (506) 444-1122
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More Information @ these YouTube links
Basic Navigation and Boat Handling - Part 1
Basic Navigation and Boat Handling - Part 2
Course Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Pre-course Quiz
3 Boaters’ Responsibilities
4 Collision Regulations
5 Magnetic Compass
6 Nautical Charts
7 Aids to Navigation
8 Basic Navigation Techniques
9 Working with Paper Charts
10 Electronic Navigation
11 Using an Electronic Navigation Device
12 Docking and Anchoring
13 Basic Weather
14 Tides and Currents
Get hands-on time learning how to:
- use electronic chart-plotters
understand aids to navigation (buoys and lights)
- read weather patterns
- use hand-held and ship's compass
- interpret nautical charts, tide tables
- tie basic knots, splice lines, and throw lines
- important emphasis on safe boating including:
-boaters' responsibilities
- collision regulations
- anchoring and docking
Member - Registration $236
https://tinyurl.com/MemberBNBH
Non-Member - Sign In & Registration $295
https://tinyurl.com/NonMemberBNBH
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