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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 a navigation 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.

Available for purchase: Navigation instruments by Weems & Plath.
Rolling parallel plotter: $17.50 - or - 12" parallel rules: $13.00.
Ultra light 7" dividers: $16.00 - or - 7" dividers: $11.00.
Nautical Slide Rule: $15.00.
Chart Protractor: $20.00.
Chart No. 1: $12.00.
Coast Guard Navigation Rules: $13.00. (All prices include tax.)

Class Schedule: Spring 2006
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

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.

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Northern Breezes Sailing School
3949 Winnetka Ave. N.
Minneapolis, MN 55427
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