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Inside Passage Voyage Planning
Tip for:
Transiting Seymour Narrows
Navigation Slideshow:
*Currents
*Radar
*Estimated Position
Helpful Links:
Animated
Rules of the Road
Great book on
"How Boat Things Work"
Animated
Aids to Navigation
Free online
BoatUS Boating Safety course
Chart Reading 101
BoatUS
Tutorial:
DSC Radio
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Get private on-the-water boating instruction on your boat. The training is customized to
focus on your needs. Your goals might include building skills in:
• 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
Private Boating Instruction, LLC
• U.S. Coast Guard 100-Ton Master's license
• Experienced professional educator, PhD
(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
• Available as speaker at yacht clubs, boating organizations.
(Email Linda)
Topics such as:
"Couples Sharing the Boat Handling: Tips for Making it Work"
"The Captain is Missing - First Mate's Survival Guide"
"VHF Radio: Basics to AIS"
"Radar: How to Use for Navigation & Collision Avoidance"
"Working with Tides & Currents"
"Voyage Planning for the Inside Passage"
• Cruising the Inside Passage since 1991
• See pictures and stories from several of Linda's three-month passages to
Southeast Alaska at Fine Edge Nautical Publishing (Fineedge.com)
To go directly to a photo blog, click on a link below:
"2011 Inside Passage Photo Blog"
"2009 Inside Passage Photo Blog"
"2007 Inside Passage Photo Blog"
• 2012 SPEAKING SCHEDULE:
SEATTLE BOAT SHOW 2012: Jan 27 through Feb 5
(All Boat Show University Seminar Descriptions)
Cruising Strategies: From Puget Sound to the Top of Vancouver Island
Friday, January 27 - 12:30-3:30 PM (Boat Show University)
Cruising Strategies: Cape Caution through BC to Ketchikan, AK
Saturday, January 28 - 4:00-7:00 PM (Boat Show University)
Cruising Strategies: Southeast Alaska - the Best Places to Visit
Sunday, January 29 - 12:30 - 3:30 PM (Boat Show University)
Boating Electronics: How to USE your Radar, VHF Radio/DSC/MMSI,
and Electronic Charting/Autopilot/AIS
Thursday, February 2 - 9 AM - 5 PM (Boat Show University)
Couples Sharing the Boat Handling - Tips for Making it Work
Saturday, January 28 - 12:15 PM
Saturday, February 4 - 12:15 PM
WOMEN'S BOATING SEMINAR: February 18, 2012 - Seattle, WA
Working Well Together on a Boat: Tips for Making it Happen
(Seminar description)
INSIDE PASSAGE SEMINAR: March 9 - 11, 2012 - Anacortes, WA
Cruising British Columbia & Southeast Alaska
(Fine Edge Nautical and Recreational Publishing)
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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