Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons

Niagara District

Boating Courses

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Niagara Canadian Power and Sail District is made up of eight Squadrons:

Burlington Fort Erie Grand River Guelph

Hamilton Port Colborne Port Dalhousie Port Dover

Note1: Grand River Squadron covers Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge area

Note2: Port Dover Squadron covers Brantford, Simcoe and Port Dover area

Canadian Power and Sail

Niagara District

Boating Courses

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Note 2: If you have issue with applying to a course send a note to email address: ds-niagara@cps-ecp.org

Note 3: The Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons Main Corporate Web site is here

Note 4: The Niagara District CPS Website is here

Note 5: The Niagara District CPS Boating Courses Website is here: boatingcourses.ca

Note 6: The CPS National Boating Licence Course signup is located here: boatlicencecanada.ca/

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Other course Links:

Boating 1 - Pleasure Craft Operators Card - the boating licence you need to operation your boat, ake the courseonline or in a Face to Face Class from one of our Squadrons offering the course. (Canada Transport Certified Course)

Boating 1 - Online PCOC Course - Apply for Online Course Here

Once you have created an account on our system, you can sign up for this PCOC course by adding it to your cart and completing the payment process below. After payment and registration, you will see a page which confirms your payment and that has a link directly to your course. If you should leave the course for more than 30 days, please contact us for the reissue of the link as you will be locked out of the program. Please sign up one person per registration. Use a different email address and create an account for each student.

Boating 1 - Classroom PCOC Course (at participating Squadrons) - Squadrons who are running courses

Students will meet in a classroom either 1 evening per week or for an all-day course on the weekend. Printed or Ebook course material will be distributed to the students. Students will write the examination at the end of the course. If the student passes they will receive a temporary certificate.

Boating 1 - PCOC Virtual Classrom (at participating Squadrons) - Squadrons who are running courses

Students will receive Printed or electronic copies of the course material either by mail or by picking up at a specific location. Instruction will take place using an online meeting one day per week (2-3 hrs.). this course begins and ends on a specific date. The final examination will be at a location near you or in some cases the examination may be online.

VHF Radio (Marine) - Radio Operator Certificate :

Maritme Radio with DSC Online course (Self Study): - Click here to apply for the Online Course

Course material is available on line 24/7. You will move through the course material at your own pace. You have 60 days to complete the course. Students will have a contact name, phone number and email should they have any questions and to arrange the examination. Link: Click here to join up

Burlington Squadron is offering this course at this link

Hamilton Squadron is offering this course at this link

Port Dover Squadron is offering this course at this link

Maritime Radio with DSC course - Classroom - (At participting Squadrons) - Click here for the link

Students will meet in a classroom either 1 evening per week or for an all-day course on the weekend. Printed or Ebook course material will be distributed to the students. Students will write the examination at the end of the course. If the student passes they will receive a temporary certificate.

Maritime Radio / DSC course - Virtual Classroom (At participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to the link

Students will receive Printed or electronic copies of the course material either by mail or by picking up at a specific location. Instruction will take place using an online meeting one day per week (2-3 hrs.). this course begins and ends on a specific date. The final examination will be at a location near you or in some cases the examination may be online.

Maritime Radio / DSC course - Challenge Exam - (At participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to the link

Students who have access to the material and wish to challenge the examination may do so by registering for this course. Once you are registered a Representative of CPS-ECP will contact you to arrange for the examination at a location near you.

Basic Navigation and Boat Handling - Part 1 (Boating 2 - B2) (course renamed)

Boating 2 - Beyond the Boating Basics - (Suggested Pre-requisite is the Boating 1 - Pleasure Craft Operators Card - PCOC)

Beyond Boating Bascis Course - Classroom (At participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to the Link

Students will meet in a classroom 1 evening per week for the duration of the course. Course length varies depending on the course from 5 evenings to 12 evenings. Printed or Ebook course material will be distributed to the students either on the first night or prior to the start of the course

Boating 2 - Beyond Boating Basics - Virtual Classroom (At participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to the link

Students will receive Printed or electronic copies of the course material either by mail or by picking up at a specific location. Instruction will take place using an online meeting one day per week (2-3 hrs.). this course begins and ends on a specific date. The final examination will be at a location near you or in some cases the examination may be online.

Boating 2 - Beyond Boating Basics - Online with Tutor (At participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to Link

The course material is available online 24/7, except for a training chart and the Canadian Aids to Navigation System foldout which will be sent by mail. The course will start on the date indicated in the CPS ECP Course Calendar. The online course link will be available 7 days prior to the start date. Notification will be sent upon registration on how to access the course. Once underway the students are expected to complete the course within 8 to 12 weeks. A “student forum” allows students to communicate (chat/text format) with class tutor(s) and other students enrolled in the course - asking questions, responding to questions from other students, sharing boating experiences, etc. The course will begin with a "Getting Started” video conference which will take place just prior to the course start date and a second video conference prior to the exam week. The learning management platform used to deliver the course is accessible by computer, tablet, or mobile phone.

Burlington Squadron offering this course at this link

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Navigation and Boat Handling, Part 1 and Part 2

(course formerly known as)

Boating 2 & Boating 3 - Includes Boating 2 (Beyond Basic Boating) and Boating 3 (Introduction to Marine Navigation) - (Suggested Prerequisite - Boating 1 - PCOC course)

Boating 2 & 3 Combined Courses - Classroom (At participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to the link

Students will meet in a classroom 1 evening per week for the duration of the course. Course length varies depending on the course from 5 evenings to 12 evenings. Printed or Ebook course material will be distributed to the students either on the first night or prior to the start of the course.

Boating 2 & 3 Combined Course - Virtual Classroom (At Participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to the link

Students will receive Printed or electronic copies of the course material either by mail or by picking up at a specific location. Instruction will take place using an online meeting one day per week (2-3 hrs.). this course begins and ends on a specific date. The final examination will be at a location near you or in some cases the examination may be online.

Boating 2 & 3 Combined - Online with Weekly Meetings (At participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to Link

Course material is available online 24/7. This is a cohort-based format with a specific start and end date. You will take this course with a specific group of fellow students. There will be an online meeting one evening per week to answer questions that students may have. You may also have one on one meetings with a local tutor to cover topics that are difficult to teach online.

5. Basic Navigation and Boat Handling - Part 2 (Boating 3 - B3) (Course renamed)

Boating 3 - Introduction to Marine Navigation - (Suggested Prerequisite - Boating 2 - Beyond Boating Basics)

Boating 3 - Introduction to Marine Navigtion - Classroom (At participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to link

Students will meet in a classroom 1 evening per week for the duration of the course. Course length varies depending on the course from 5 evenings to 12 evenings. Printed or Ebook course material will be distributed to the students either on the first night or prior to the start of the course.

Boating 3 - Introduction to Marine Navigation - Virtual Classroom (At partiipating Squadrons) - Click here for link

Students will receive Printed or electronic copies of the course material either by mail or by picking up at a specific location. Instruction will take place using an online meeting one day per week (2-3 hrs.). This course begins and ends on a specific date. The final examination will be at a location near you or in some cases the examination may be online.

6. Boating 4 - Near Shore Marine Navigation level 1 (Suggested prerequisite - Boating 3)

Boating 4 - Near Shore Marine Navigation Level 1 - Classroom (At Participating Squadrons) - Click here for link

Students will meet in a classroom 1 evening per week for the duration of the course. Course length varies depending on the course from 5 evenings to 12 evenings. Printed or Ebook course material will be distributed to the students either on the first night or prior to the start of the course.

Boating 4 - Near Shore Marine Navigation Level 1 - Online - Click here for the link

Course material is available online 24/7. This is a cohort-based format with a specific start and end date. You will take this course with a specific group of fellow students. There will be an online meeting one evening per week to answer questions that students may have. You may also have one on one meetings with a local tutor to cover topics that are difficult to teach online.

Boating 4 - Near Shore Marine Navigation Level 1 - Virtual Classroom - Click here to go to link

Students will receive Printed or electronic copies of the course material either by mail or by picking up at a specific location. Instruction will take place using an online meeting one day per week (2-3 hrs.). this course begins and ends on a specific date. The final examination will be at a location near you or in some cases the examination may be online.

7. Boating 5 - Near Shore Navigation Level - (suggested prerequisite - Boating 4)

Boating 5 - Near Shore Navigation Level 2 - Virtual Classroom - Click here for the link

Students will receive Printed or electronic copies of the course material either by mail or by picking up at a specific location. Instruction will take place using an online meeting one day per week (2-3 hrs.). this course begins and ends on a specific date. The final examination will be at a location near you or in some cases the examination may be online.

8. Boating 6 and Boating 7 - Off Shore Marine Navigation

Boating Seminar - Celestial Navigation in a Nutshell - Online - Click here for the Link

This online seminar can be started as soon as you receive the link or by going to the course calendar drop down on the main web page and selecting Moodle Login. The Seminar is designed to be done in one sitting of about 90 minutes. Before electronic navigation aids like GPS and electronic chartplotters came along, coastal sailors plotted fixes by using natural and man-made references, such as lighthouses, buoys, church steeples, radio/TV towers, and so on, that were plotted in their exact locations on paper navigation charts. They did this by taking quick-succession bearings on two or more of these objects, thus producing lines of position (LOPs) that crossed each other at some point. When these LOPs were plotted on the paper chart, the sailor could see the fix, indicating the boat’s position. This process is called getting a terrestrial fix. However, if the sailor is in the middle of an ocean, there are no lighthouses or church steeples. There is a solution however, and as the Friendly Giant used to say, “Look up … way up,” and there are all those heavenly bodies, “lighthouses in the sky

Boating 7 - Offshore Navigation Level 2 (At participating Squadrons) - Virtual Classroom- Click here for the link

Students will receive Printed copies of the course material either by mail or by picking up at a specific location. Instruction will take place using an online meeting one day per week (2-3 hrs.). this course begins and ends on a specific date. The final examination will be at a location near you or in some cases the examination may be online

9. Electronic Marine Navigtion - (Suggested Prerequisite - Boating 3)

Electronic Marine Navigtion - Virtual Classroom (at participating Squadrons) - Click here for the link

Students will receive Printed or electronic copies of the course material either by mail or by picking up at a specific location. Instruction will take place using an online meeting one day per week (2-3 hrs.). this course begins and ends on a specific date. The final examination will be at a location near you or in some cases the examination may be online.

Radar for Boaters - Virtual Classroom (at participating Squadrons) - Click here for link

Suggested Prerequisite: None
Details: Students will receive Printed or electronic copies of the course material either by mail or by picking up at a specific location. Instruction will take place using an online meeting one day per week (2-3 hrs.). this course begins and ends on a specific date. The final examination will be at a location near you or in some cases the examination may be online.

Seminar - How to use a GPS - Online - Click here for the link

Suggested Prerequisite: None
Details: This Seminar is available 24/7 at your own convenience
This introductory online seminar is for boaters who want to know the basics of how to set up their GPS/Chartplotter, understand how it works, how to use it to and how it can connect to other boat electronics including tablets and smart phones. In this seminar, you will learn about waypoints, routes and how to best use the display options available for charts and data. Knowing how to plan and safely execute a route and interpret what you see on the charts is important A section is included on the capabilities of multi-function displays connected to an autopilot, sensors, radar, AIS or DSC radio. This is an interactive seminar and to help you assess your learning, there are question and answer segments located throughout the various sections

Burlington Squadron is offering this course at this link

10. Boat and Engine Maintenance

Marine Electrical Maintenace - Classroom (At participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to the link

Suggested Prerequisite: None
Details: Students will meet in a classroom 1 evening per week for the duration of the course. Course length varies depending on the course from 5 evenings to 12 evenings. Printed or Ebook course material will be distributed to the students either on the first night or prior to the start of the course.

Marine Electrical Maintnance - Virtual Classroom (At participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to the link

Suggested Prerequisite: None
Details: Students will receive Printed or electronic copies of the course material either by mail or by picking up at a specific location. Instruction will take place using an online meeting one day per week (2-3 hrs.). this course begins and ends on a specific date. The final examination will be at a location near you or in some cases the examination may be online.

Boat and Engine Maintenance - Classroom (At participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to the Link

Suggested Prerequisite: None
Details: Students will meet in a classroom 1 evening per week for the duration of the course. Course length varies depending on the course from 5 evenings to 12 evenings. Printed or Ebook course material will be distributed to the students either on the first night or prior to the start of the course.

Boat and Engine Maintenance - Virtual Classroom (At participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to link

Suggested Prerequisite: None
Details: Students will receive Printed or electronic copies of the course material either by mail or by picking up at a specific location. Instruction will take place using an online meeting one day per week (2-3 hrs.). this course begins and ends on a specific date. The final examination will be at a location near you or in some cases the examination may be online.

11. Weather

Seminar - Tropical Weather for Winter Boaters - Online (At participating Squadrons) - Click here for the link

Suggested Prerequisite: None
Details: The course material is available online 24/7.
This online seminar can be started as soon as you receive the link or by going to the course calendar drop down on the main web page and selecting Moodle Login. The Seminar is designed to be done in one sitting of about 90 minuets. Many boaters like to spend all or part of their winters sailing in tropical waters, and no doubt wonder what sort of weather they might encounter. The meteorology behind winter weather in the Tropical Zone is very much different from that which we experience here in the mid-latitudes. This seminar gives provides a quick review of mid-latitude weather, and then explains the differences that we would find in the tropics, and why they are different. A good follow up of this course would be Weather for Boaters which is a multi week course with Tutor support

12) Seminar - Tides and Currents - Online - Click here to go to link

Suggested Prerequisite: None
Details: The course material is available online 24/7.
This online seminar can be started as soon as you receive the link or by going to the course calendar drop down on the main web page and selecting Moodle Login. The Seminar is designed to be done in one sitting of about 90 minuets. For the safety of oneself, the boat’s crew and the boat itself, the boater had best be prepared to take tides and currents into consideration when planning a voyage of any length in tidal waters. Failure to do so can result in the vessel’s running aground or, just as embarrassing and damaging, snapping off a mast in a collision with a bridge or utility cable stretched across a tidal river. It is not possible to cover every detail of the subject of tides and currents within the constraints of this seminar, but it will certainly give the student a solid introduction to the subject. To learn more, we highly recommend boaters take the CPS-ECP courses, Boating 4: Near Shore Marine Navigation Level I and Boating 5: Near Shore Marine Navigation Level II. Tides and currents are covered more extensively in those courses

13) Sailing

Sailing - Virtual Classroom (At participating Squadrons) - Click here to go to the link

Suggested Prerequisite: Boating 2
Details: Students will receive Printed or electronic copies of the course material either by mail or by picking up at a specific location. Instruction will take place using an online meeting one day per week (2-3 hrs.). This course begins and ends on a specific date. The final examination will be at a location near you or in some cases the examination may be online.
Do you want to learn more about sailing? Do you want to improve your sailing skills and your understanding of how sails work? This Sailing Course covers the practical and theoretical basics of sailing and sailing seamanship. The range of topics is broad: from a description of different sailboat rigs, sail plans, hull types, and rigging to stability, balance, and the physics of sailing; from sailing at different points of sail to handling heavy weather and storm conditions; from spinnaker handling to reefing; from leaving the dock to mooring and anchoring. It also covers sailing safety, navigation rules, and sailing tactics Whether you are a new sailor or you are an experienced sailor and want to increase your sailing knowledge and skills, this course is for you

14) Seminar - How to use a GPS - Self Study

Suggested Prerequisite - Non

Details - this seminar is available 24/7 at your own convenience

,> Burlington offering this course, click this link to apply

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