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This USCG approved course serves in place of testing at the Coast Guard Regional Exam Center. Upon successful completion, mariners qualify for near coastal or inland commercial captain's licenses up to 100 gross registered tons. Topics include navigation, chart plotting, deck seamanship, deck safety, vessel administration, and rules of the road.
This course has two options: classroom or blended learning. The classroom version is 10 days in the classroom. The blended learning version combines a week's worth of self-paced online instruction with 6 days in the classroom. For those who qualify for a 200-ton license, we have an extended module for that! |
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These two USCG approved courses serve as endorsements to your captain's license. The Commercial Assistance Towing endorsement authorizes you to conduct assistance towing for money either on your own or though a towing company such as SeaTow or Vessel Assist. The Auxiliary Sail Endorsement authorizes you to work on commercial sailing vessels.
Both these courses are often conducted in conjunction with a 100-ton or OUPV captain's course. |
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This license is often called a "six pack" license because it authorizes you to take out 6 paying passengers aboard a vessel. This USCG approved course serves in place of testing at the USCG Regional Exam Center. Upon successful completion, mariners qualify for near coastal or inland captain's licenses for uninspected vessels up to 100 gross registered tons. Topics include navigation, chart plotting, deck seamanship, deck safety, vessel administration, and rules of the road. T
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This USCG approved course serves in place of testing at the USCG Regional Exam Center for mariners seeking licenses up to 200 gross registered tons.
Sometimes known as the "hardest test in the world," this course helps you understand the collision avoidance regulations and the U.S. inland rules of the road to keep you safe at sea. Additionally, this course is valid for U.S. Coast Guard personnel seeking their original (DWO-INTO) or renewal deck watch officer test. |
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This USCG approved course serves in place of testing at the USCG Regional Exam Center for mariners seeking to increase the scope of their license from near coastal to oceans. Oceans licenses are valid outside 200 nautical miles from shore.
This extremely challenging course covers all elements of oceans navigation including star fixes, running fixes, amplitudes, azimuths, and many other navigational math topics. The course also includes sign-offs for applicable STCW topics on the Officer in Charge of Navigational Watches qualification. |
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Check this out - go on vacation on a luxury sailing yacht and earn your captain's license by doing. The 92-foot sailing yacht August Maverick is your classroom as you spend some time in the huge pilothouse learning about maritime topics. Then, you get to actually practice those skills aboard a 102-ton vessel. During the day, you can navigate the vessel around the Virgin Islands or New England, and at night enjoy all the amenities of a luxury yacht charter with your family or classmates.
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About the Courses
When upgrading his own merchant mariner license after separating from the Coast Guard, Chris recognized two key things. First, most of the training courses he attended were over-priced and under-whelming in quality. Second, there is a huge deficit of licensed merchant mariners in the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy.
Because of this, Chris teaches affordable, high-quality courses specifically tailored at helping military members and young sailors achieve their goal of a merchant mariner license. He travels the country delivering world class training at a reduced price to select audiences. Courses have been completed in places as varied as California, Alaska, Virginia, Washington D.C., Massachusetts, St. Croix, and Puerto Rico.
Because of this, Chris teaches affordable, high-quality courses specifically tailored at helping military members and young sailors achieve their goal of a merchant mariner license. He travels the country delivering world class training at a reduced price to select audiences. Courses have been completed in places as varied as California, Alaska, Virginia, Washington D.C., Massachusetts, St. Croix, and Puerto Rico.
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Please consider donating to the project if you can afford to do so. Your donation goes directly to defraying the costs of these excellent courses to military members and young sailors.
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