Scuttlebutt Magazine - January 2008 - (Page 50) Page 50 • January 2008 www.scuttlebutt.com Need basic or advanced course? Sign up for boating classes while the water’s still ‘hard’ Before walking into the 2008 Minneapolis Boat Show in January, promise yourself you’ll take that boating education class you’ve been thinking about. Talk to a member of Hiawatha Valley Sail & Power Squadron about the content of courses offered through United States Power Squadrons (USPS) to learn how you can expand your boating knowledge. Hiawatha Valley will offer the gamut of courses from February through May, including an expanded public safe boating course, “The Squadron Boating Course,” which meets for six class periods. Non-members also may enroll for two short seminars of two hours each, scheduled for May 19 in the Red Wing Library: “Onboard Emergencies” and “Onboard Weather Forecasting”. Need advanced courses? If advanced skills boating classes interest non-members, join USPS now while the basic boat- –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– A; registration Hiawatha Valley will offer the gamut of courses from February deadline is ing course through May, including an expanded public safe boating course, Feb. 29. Credit membership requirement is “The Squadron Boating Course,” which meets for six class cards are accepted. temporarily waived. For periods. Non-members also may enroll for two short seminars of • Red Wing Senior High membership two hours each, scheduled for May 19 in the Red Wing Library: School – April information, contact “Onboard Emergencies” and “Onboard Weather Forecasting”. 8-29, six nights Administrative –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– over four Great Circle Trip. Hiawatha four nights over three weeks; 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Officer Jim Wise, Chaska, Valley members and friends weeks (skipping one Register for “The 952-448-3186, LSW-JKW@ are organizing a flotilla to week); 6:30 to 9 p.m. Squadron Boating comcast.net. Using skills cruise to Dubuque, Iowa, in Register for “Boat Smart” Course” on Red Wing learned in advanced USPS mid-July for a district USPS at Hiawatha Valley’s web Community Education’s courses, Mr. and Mrs. Wise site, www.hiawathavalley rendezvous, web site at www.rwcom completed the year-long ps.org; registration deadBasic boating courses – edrec.org, course #8094Great Circle Trip in the fall line is Jan. 31. USPS has Families with children and 08SP01; registration deadof 2006. discontinued Boat Smart new boat owners will profit line is April 4. Credit Member courses will after this course. from taking a basic safe cards are accepted. include Piloting (March in boating course. Boat owners (more) Self-study learning – Burnsville) and Advanced • Hastings Senior High also benefit from a reducUSPS also offers for sale to Piloting (January in School – March 6-April 3, tion in marine insurance the public a variety of selfMinnetonka), while those six nights over five weeks study learning guides rates after passing a basic completing any basic boat(no class during spring boating courses. (The more including “Boat Insurance”, ing course will be ready for break week); 6:30 to 9 advanced courses taken, the “Compass Adjusting”, “A the Seamanship course in p.m. Register for “The greater the rate reduction.) Boat Owner’s Guide to spring (date and location Squadron Boating Hiawatha Valley members GMDSS and Marine TBA). In May, Hiawatha Course” on Hastings will teach three beginning Radios”, “How to Fly Flags”, Valley will offer the Cruise Community Education/ “Introduction to Sailing”, Planning elective, especially courses this winter and Ind. School Dist. 200 web “Introduction to Navigatimely to plan cruises on the early spring: site at www.hastings.k12 • Lakeville at Gander tional Astronomy”, “Knots, Mississippi and St. Croix, .mn.us; course #540684Mountain – Feb. 4-21, Bends and Hitches for on the Great Lakes or the Mariners”, “Marine Amateur Radio”, “Plotting and Labeling Standards”, “Predicted Log Contests”, and “Sight Reduction Methods”. A CD for tying “Basic Knots” is also available. To review a complete list of USPS educational courses, learning guides and other instructional material, visit the national USPS website at www.usps.org. To enroll in classes given by Hiawatha Valley, see its web site and register at www.hiawathavalleyps.org. or contact squadron education officer Clare Cox, Red Wing, wildsplash@comcast .net, 763-420-5333. USPS is a 92-year old educational, civic and fraternal organization dedicated to teaching and promoting safe boating. 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