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Marine
Weather
Study package includes:
Manuscript (125+ pages, 90+ illustrations, 8.5" x 11", plastic
comb binding) including numerical practice problems, several
valuable tables for predicting winds from weather maps, and a
complete set of the marine weather questions used on USCG license
exams organized by topic, along with a complete photocopy of NOAA
Commander Kenneth Lilly's text
Marine
Weather of Western Washington.
This text course is the forerunner of
our Weather Trainer software program. It is also the text
materials we use in our classroom course on marine weather. In
short we have two course products on marine weather, this text
version and our software version.
If you have access to a computer for extended study, we would
recommend the software version, the
Starpath Weather Trainer. It is covers a broader range of
topics in more detail — the interactive Weather Trainer Glossary,
for example, would be a large book of some 800 pages if presented
in print format.
On the other hand, this text course has merits of its own. For
one thing, the subject matter is more distilled. No one needs to
know all of what is in the
Weather
Trainer Glossary, for example. And this text version includes
a complete photocopy of
Ken
Lilly's excellent book on Marine Weather, which is a far
broader treatment of the subject than might be guessed from the
title. Ken Lilly's book is out of print except for copies
produced by Starpath, which we can offer as we are the original
publishers. The set of USCG practice questions is also a unique
resource.
If you don't have access to a computer or you simply prefer to
study such material from text rather than from a computer screen,
then this is the product for you. Needless to say, you will
ultimately learn what you want to know about marine weather from
this text product just as well as from the software because we
are standing by to answer any questions you might have that you
do not find answered in the text materials.
This course will provide answers to these
specific issues of marine weather and if you can't find the
specific sections in the materials, send us an e-mail or call.
Independent Study Class
/ Correspondence. This course has been successfully completed by
several students who are remotely located. It usually requires
some time spent with an instructor by email or
telephone. Cost is $89 which comes with a DVD. We
like to interview
prospective students in
this category. Please Call.
Course Fee: $89.
Class Schedule:
To be determined
The evening course consists of 18 hours of
instruction, made up of 6 three-hour classroom classes... plus
the invitation and encouragement to use our online discussion
groups to carry on with questions between class sessions.. The
weekend course covers the same topics with 9
classroom hours of instruction combined with assignments from the
interactive Weather Trainer software program and the Starpath
online training program, which includes discussion groups,
practice exercises, and quizzes.
A plain-language, practical course for inland and ocean
sailing, guaranteed to make your sailing safer and more
efficient. Very valuable information presented in an enjoyable
and engaging manner. Note that the materials fee includes a
discount on the Starpath Weather Trainer software, normally $129.
Throughout the course we emphasize how you combine your own
observations of wind, sea, clouds, and barometer to better
interpret the official forecasts obtained from radio or facsimile
as well as make your own forecast if you loose the official
sources. We also help you develop practical rules of thumb that
will contribute to sound efficient decision making underway.
We have had numerous past students send us HF-email underway
to report back how valuable this course was in getting down the
coast, or across an ocean. It is indispensable if you sail a lot
in Northwest waters or other parts of the world with variable and
sometimes severe weather. Topics include:
- Radio sources of weather and how to interpret them
- Basic principles of Highs and Lows — ridges and troughs
- Weather maps: what kinds, how to get them, how to read
them.
- All about barometers
- Fronts, squalls, storms, and hurricanes
- Tropical versus extratropical cyclones
- Sides of a storm and storm avoidance
- Cloud ID and interpretation
- Fog — sea fog and radiation fog
- Global winds — prevailing westerlies,trade winds,
doldrums, monsoons, roaring forties, screaming fifties,
polar easterlies
- Pacific High, Aleutian Lows, and counterparts around
the world
- Local winds and weather — Puget Sound, Juan de Fuca,
Pacific Coast
- How to use barometer, wind shifts, and clouds for
shipboard forecasting
- Waves and swells, significant wave height, sea state
forecasting
- Beaufort scale
- Winds and terrain — land and sea breezes, shoreline
wind shifts, drainage winds, channeled winds, convergence
zones
- How to predict wind shifts inland and at sea
- Use of the internet for weather study and planning
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Course Fee: $89 includes course materials.
Call
Northern Breezes Sailing School at 763-542-9707 to register or
with questions.
Prerequisite for this course:
None.
Northern Breezes
Sailing School
3949
Winnetka Ave. N.
Minneapolis, MN 55427
Call For Free Brochure (763) 542-9707
American Sailing
Association
Sailing School
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