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<blockquote data-quote="C_Hallbert" data-source="post: 4236974" data-attributes="member: 42957"><p>When I was 12, I purchased my first boat with money I’d saved from mowing lawns, shoveling snow and $100 I received from my Grandma for Christmas. We lived about 6 miles north from my Uncle Eddie’s small slip on a canal in Seaford, L.I., NY. He let me keep it tied there. It was a 12 foot, Strip Built, Wolverine Runabout with a 1951 (1 1/2) hp Johnson SeaHorse Outboard. That Spring, before we put it in the water, I sanded, removed rotten wood, packed cracks with oakum, painted and coated the underside of the hull with copper based anti-foaling paint. Our parents allowed me to take my 7 y.o. brother out on the Great South Bay from dawn to dusk as often as convenient for them to drop us off and pick us up. We were both excellent swimmers. At 13 y.o. I took the U.S. Coast Guard Power Squadron Seamanship and Small Boat Handling Course….and I passed it without assistance. The toughest part was Navigation where you had to plot a coarse to Iceland compensating for Gulf Stream Drift with annotations designating Bearing and resulting vector of the True Course. This was plotted on a Universal Transverse Polyconic Mercator Projection Map which resulted in a curved line because of the contracting Longitude Lines as the course tracked into the higher Latitudes. Fuel consumption and drag from wind and current had to be figured in as well as speed to calculate the actual speed of travel to predict time and fuel requirements for the voyage. This is called Dead Reckoning. Some of the grown men didn’t pass. The certificate from this course has provided me with discounted Boating Insurance Policies during my entire life. Together with the many years of boat ownership (only time without one was during my military service), it made insuring my high power boats a simple process also at a discounted rate. I recommend these courses for everyone at the helm of a powerboat on the water. I seem to remember that they may have dumbed down this course the navigational aspects of the rudimentary safe boat handling courses; and now offer special courses for long distance cruising. I found much of the navigation process to be very similar to General Aviation Ground School. But I warn you, the unique attributes of handling sailboats was not included. Heck, I capsized a 16 Foot Sloop in Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan…… , but that’s another story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="C_Hallbert, post: 4236974, member: 42957"] When I was 12, I purchased my first boat with money I’d saved from mowing lawns, shoveling snow and $100 I received from my Grandma for Christmas. We lived about 6 miles north from my Uncle Eddie’s small slip on a canal in Seaford, L.I., NY. He let me keep it tied there. It was a 12 foot, Strip Built, Wolverine Runabout with a 1951 (1 1/2) hp Johnson SeaHorse Outboard. That Spring, before we put it in the water, I sanded, removed rotten wood, packed cracks with oakum, painted and coated the underside of the hull with copper based anti-foaling paint. Our parents allowed me to take my 7 y.o. brother out on the Great South Bay from dawn to dusk as often as convenient for them to drop us off and pick us up. We were both excellent swimmers. At 13 y.o. I took the U.S. Coast Guard Power Squadron Seamanship and Small Boat Handling Course….and I passed it without assistance. The toughest part was Navigation where you had to plot a coarse to Iceland compensating for Gulf Stream Drift with annotations designating Bearing and resulting vector of the True Course. This was plotted on a Universal Transverse Polyconic Mercator Projection Map which resulted in a curved line because of the contracting Longitude Lines as the course tracked into the higher Latitudes. Fuel consumption and drag from wind and current had to be figured in as well as speed to calculate the actual speed of travel to predict time and fuel requirements for the voyage. This is called Dead Reckoning. Some of the grown men didn’t pass. The certificate from this course has provided me with discounted Boating Insurance Policies during my entire life. Together with the many years of boat ownership (only time without one was during my military service), it made insuring my high power boats a simple process also at a discounted rate. I recommend these courses for everyone at the helm of a powerboat on the water. I seem to remember that they may have dumbed down this course the navigational aspects of the rudimentary safe boat handling courses; and now offer special courses for long distance cruising. I found much of the navigation process to be very similar to General Aviation Ground School. But I warn you, the unique attributes of handling sailboats was not included. Heck, I capsized a 16 Foot Sloop in Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan…… , but that’s another story. [/QUOTE]
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