Topics include:

• principles of Radar
• major components
• features & functions found on most units
• interpreting the Radar screen
• Radar for navigation: bearings and ranges
• Radar for collision avoidance: rapid plotting & relative motion
• tuning and adjusting controls for weather and sea conditions
• pitfalls and potential misinterpretation

Tuition of $345 includes:
 
• Text book
• Radar Simulator software.(you'll need to bring a laptop running Windows)
• Use of our plotting tools (we recommend you bring your own)
• ASA Radar exam and endorsement certification

Who can attend? Anyone,... but: we strongly recommend that you have some cruising or navigation experience.  Ideally, students should have completed Bareboat Bareboat Charter and/or Coastal Navigation before you take the clinic, but again, these courses are not rigidly required to attend.

Prerequisites for ASA Endorsement
None, but to master the material well enough to pass the exam, you'll probably need some prior navigation experiene or training.  We'll talk to you about your prior experience before signing you up! 

What should you bring?
You need a PC or Mac laptop that is running Windows.  You'll use this for the simulator program.  We don't have loaner laptops.
(Mac users unfamliar with running Windows: you'll need two things.  1: A copy of Windows to install from CD; 2. Parallels or VM Fusion software.  Ask your closest Apple store for support with this.  You'll install the Parallels or VM Fusion first.)
 
 

Certification Achieved: The new ASA Radar Endorsement certification