Hello Sue!
30 Jul 96 16:24, Sue Merriner wrote to All:
 SM> Where do you learn to navigate a boat that would be big enough to
 SM> be used for a small home on the sea and to take people out
 SM> fishing or for tours?
I am not sure where you live but in the Houston Tx. area you can call the
Power Squadron.  The Power Squadron is located I think across this country
for a very small fee they will teach you a lot more than just navigation.
I think the course was free.  The only cost was for the books, but I could be 
wrong.  They do cover everything, just depends on how far you want to go with
it.  they have many courses.  The first course will teach you how to read
a map, Dayboards and buoys, beyond Red Right Return!  they will cover a bunch 
of things like - Navigation - all types, Boating Safety, rules of the water, 
Weather, Channel markers, Ranges,  (not only in your area but around the 
world.) VHF, SSB, HAM, Radio. Boat lighting, Seamenship under sail or power, 
Anchoring, Tides, trailering a boat, you will even be abel to tell a schooner 
from a sloop, The big thing is when this country passes the law that you need 
a
license to operate a boat, and if will.  You will fall under the Grandfather 
clause and be granted your license.  The Power Squadron can take you from 
Bath Tub toy boat beginner, to 500 ton Captain.  Not to mention all of the 
friends in boating you will make and the outings that the power squadron 
es.
OR
Buy a video in the back of any boating Magazine.
Ray
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