Get private on-the-water boating instruction on your boat. Get training that is customized to
focus on your needs:
• Docking • Traditional navigation
• Anchoring • Electronic navigation
• Radar • Tides and currents
• Autopilot • Rules of the road
• VHF Radio • Inside Passage Voyage Planning
If you don't have more than one person on the boat who can handle the boat, you don't have a safe boat.
Both captain and crew need to actively build their knowledge and skills as a safety priority and as an investment in satisfying boating.
Beginning boater? You can build your skills a step at a time. Dreaming of cruising the Inside Passage to Southeast Alaska? You need yet another layer in your skill set.
Call or email to discuss your current skill level and to identify the things that you want to learn. Look at the list above, pick out what you want to work on, and let's get started.
Set your course for confidence on the water!
Captain Linda Lewis, PhD:
• U.S. Coast Guard 100 Ton Master's license
• Experienced professional educator
(U of WA Associate Professor Emeritus)
• 40 years boating experience
• Member U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary; Coxswain; Instructor
• Teaches electronic & traditional navigation to the public for U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
• Editor and contributor to Douglass Exploring Southeast Alaska (2007)
cruising guide
(book information)
• Member Northwest Women in Boating
(Email the leader)
• Available as speaker at yacht clubs, boating organizations.
(Email Linda)
Topics such as "Cruising the Inside Passage, Navigation, The Captain is Missing,"
and a popular one: "Couples Sharing the Boat Handling: Tips for Making it Work"
• Cruises the Inside Passage to Southeast Alaska
See pictures and stories from Linda's three-month passages
to Southeast Alaska in 2009 & in 2007 at the Fine Edge website
("fineedge.com")
• 2010 SPEAKING SCHEDULE:
Seattle Boat Show 2010: Jan 29 through Feb 6
(Seattle Boat Show)
"Cruising B.C. to Southeast Alaska" Seminars - 1/29, 1/30
(Descriptions of 3-hour Seminars)
"Alaska Dreaming - What's Holding You Back?" - 1/31
(Seminar time)
"Couples Sharing the Boat Handling - Tips for Making it Work" - 2/1, 2/6
(Seminar times)
Women's Boating Seminar: Feb 20
"Smart Use of Your VHF Radio"
(Seminar information)
Seattle Yacht Club & Washington Sea Grant: Feb 27
"Beyond the Broughtons: A User's Guide to Cruising SE Alaska"
(Seminar information)
or call Seattle Yacht Club: 206-325-1000)
Fine Edge Three-day Inside Passage Seminar: March 19-21
"British Columbia "&" The Inside Passage to Southeast Alaska"
(Seminar Information)
• Featured in Passagemaker magazine article by Sally Bee Brown
Click here for information on obtaining the article at:
Passagemaker magazine
At the Passagemaker website, also read about one of Linda's
"Radar Training Exercises"
and her experience
"Towing a Disabled Vessel". (Author: Sally Bee Brown)
Click here for
Captain Linda Lewis Contact Information
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