Basic Powerboating Sail Canada Basic Power
18 Hours / $695 + HST
This course focuses on building confidence and providing core skills for safe and competent outboard and inboard operation. It focuses primarily on safety, docking, slow and high-speed maneuvers, and you will learn proficient techniques across several other areas.
Sample two-day structure
Saturday Curriculum
- Introduction and safety equipment
- Boat familiarization and operation
- Slow-speed – Prop Walk, Figure 8s
- Leaving and docking
- Theory on different types of craft, engines and drives
- High-speed S-turns, U-turns and stopping
- Anchoring, securing to a buoy, towing
- Confined-space turning and recovery
Sunday Curriculum
- Introduction to navigation
- Practice Saturday’s slow-speed manoeuvres
- Man-overboard session
- Coastal navigation practical passage
- Boat handling under high speed
- Debriefing and where to go from here
Starts May 25, 2024
One weekend
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
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Starts June 15, 2024
One weekend
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
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Starts June 22, 2024
One weekend
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
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Starts July 6, 2024
One weekend
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
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Starts July 20, 2024
One weekend
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
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Starts August 10, 2024
One weekend
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
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Starts September 7, 2024
One weekend
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
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Starts September 28, 2024
One weekend
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
Saturday & Sunday, 9am – 6pm
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Starts June 3, 2024
Three evenings for two weeks
Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 6pm – 9pm
Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 6pm – 9pm
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Starts May 29, 2024
Two weekdays
Wednesday & Friday, 9am – 6pm
Wednesday & Friday, 9am – 6pm
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Starts September 4, 2024
Two weekdays
Wednesday & Friday, 9am – 6pm
Wednesday & Friday, 9am – 6pm
Contact us at thncinfo@torontoharbournauticalcentre.com to book