• 18-Hour Survival Equipment, Procedures and Onboard Drills

    The courses provide practical information on the survival equipment found on most commercial vessels and on conducting emergency onboard drills. Skills are learned in a hands-on format.

  • 420 Learn to Race

    For sailors who have successfully completed one year of 420 Learn to Sail or Opti Race.

  • Advanced Beginner

    For persons who are not beginners, have not taken a class and have only paddled a few times.

  • Alaska Water Wise

    The course satisfies most states' boating safety education requirements and may qualify boaters for boat insurance discounts.

  • Animated Online Boater Certification Course - BoaterExam.com

    Get your official Boater Education Card with this animated and narrated state approved online boating course and exam. Complete the course at your own pace. Pay only when you pass! Customer Service is standing by 7 days a week to answer any questions.

  • Balance, Bracing and Eskimo rolling

    You have developed and refined your kayaking skills, but your confidence in your balance, bracing and Eskimo rolling still needs work.

  • Becoming an Outdoors-Woman in Alaska

    Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program offerings are made possible by a cooperative effort between the Alaska Department of Fish & Game and The Outdoor Heritage Foundation of Alaska.

  • Beginner

    For persons with little or no sea kayaking experience.

  • Customized Cold Water Safety & Survival Training

    AMSEA offers custom-designed, hands-on cold-water and vessel safety courses to meet the specific needs of the participants, whether recreational boaters, commercial fishers, private business or government agency personnel, children or others who work or boat in marine or freshwater environments.

  • Eskimo Rolling

    Learn the fundamental skills needed to recover gracefully from a capsize without exiting your kayak, the ultimate self-rescue; the Eskimo roll.

  • Fundamental Kayaking Skills

    Learn the basics in 3.5 hr. kayaking skills training sessions using river kayaks in the comfort of a heated pool.

  • Introduction to Sea Kayak Navigation

    Learn to read charts and know what they mean to a sea kayaker.

  • Kayak Camping and Trip Planning

    Develop strategies for planning and executing a smooth and manageable multi-day sea kayak camping trip.

  • Kayak Racing

    “Run the gates” just like Olympic champions in high-level slalom kayaking competition. Pre-requisites: follow verbal instructions and can swim.

  • Kayaking Skills Refinement

    Develop refined strokes and maneuvers, balance, bracing and rolling skills, plus crisp efficient rescues, and a detailed awareness of the sport of kayaking.

  • Kids Don't Float Educational Resources

    The Kids Don’t Float School Program is a model curriculum for anyone wishing to teach boating and water safety concepts to K-12 students.

  • Kids Don't Float Peer Education Program

    The program will train high school students to teach the Kid's Don't Float curriculum to elementary school children.

  • Kids Kayaking

    Two hour introduction to kayaking for youngsters ages 11 – 17.

  • Marine Safety Instructor Training

    AMSEA's Marine Safety Instructor Training (MSIT) course is a premier train-the-trainer course. It is an intensive 48-hour, six-day program designed to train individuals to effectively teach cold water survival procedures, marine safety equipment and onboard safety drills.

  • Outdoor Survival Youth Educators Workshops

    These workshops are designed for schoolteachers and others who work with children.

  • Paddling Class

    Private paddling lessons by appointment only.

  • Sea Kayak Safety and Rescue

    Learn fast and efficient rescues for sea kayaking and water safety.

  • Youth and Family

    For persons with little or no sea kayaking experience.



  • Advanced Piloting

    Advanced Piloting covers more advanced coastal navigation techniques, navigation in tides and currents, and more advanced GPS usage. For members only.

  • Advanced Whitewater Canoe

    This course develops proficiency and confidence in, and enjoyment of, safely paddling in whitewater of advanced difficulty.

  • Aids to Navigation

    By looking at the big picture and breaking the system down, you'll get a better understanding of just why these markers and buoys are where they are and will have a better handle on how to make sense of them.

  • America's Boating Course

    This course can be taken online, by studying an 80-page manual, or by cd-rom.

  • American Boat Operator

    This online course is officially approved by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA) and recognized by the United States Coast Guard and available for most states.

  • Basic Naviagation

    In this course, Capt. Steve gives you the skills to use manual methods to cross check and support your electronic navigation and the tools to give your passengers the confidence to ride aboard with you whether you're heading across the river or across the ocean.

  • Basic River Canoe

    Basic River Canoe focuses mainly on canoes that are designed more for whitewater use and on the student that wishes to "work" or "play" the river by catching lots of small eddies, and doing ferries, instead of just going from point A to point B.

  • Basic Rules of the Road

    In this course, Capt. Steve takes you through an overview of the Rules of the Road that all recreational boaters need to know.

  • Boat Building

    A unique maritime learning environment geared towards educating people of all ages. We specialize in the all encompassing aspects of boat building and sailing. Hands on training of building and then sailing your own sailboat for people ages 8 to adult.

  • Boater Exam Study Guide

    We have assembled a study guide to help you manage the process of obtaining your pleasure craft operators card.

  • Boating Fun

    This is a storybook/coloring book (targeted to children in Grades K-3) with pictures that are suitable for making overhead transparencies and is designed to be used in traditional, instructor-led classes as well as a stand-alone study by a single user.

  • Boating Safety

    Learn to be a better boater - no matter how much boating experience you have there's always more to learn.

  • Boating Safety Course

    Online boater license or certification is available for 36 states.

  • Boating Skills and Seamanship

    This course is a comprehensive course designed for both the experienced and the novice boater.

  • Canoe Rolling

    The goal of this course is to introduce paddlers to the technique of rolling an open canoe.

  • Coastal Navigation

    The navigation course is a combination of a printed text/workbook for home study, sample and real time chart work, online animated demonstrations and testing, email instructor assistance, and a private Navigation Bulletin Board.

  • Cruise Planning

    Cruise Planning covers topics of interest for someone planning a cruise – whether for just a weekend or for a year – including preparation and planning, anchoring, security, chartering, and cruising outside the US. For members only.

  • Educational Recreational Adventures

    Educational Recreational Adventures teaches environmental education, science, and outdoor skills (fly fishing, canoeing, kayaking, cross-country skiing, backpacking, aquatic education,wildlife studies,...) to people of all ages.

  • Engine Maintenance

    Engine Maintenance covers the operating principles and basic care and maintenance of outboard and inboard engines, including diesels. For members only.

  • Essentials of River Canoe

    The course is designed to give the student the necessary tools needed to travel down a moving river (up to Class I) from point A to point B, either sitting or kneeling.

  • Essentials of Touring Canoe

    The purpose of this course is to teach beginner paddlers to safely and enjoyably canoe on quietwater.

  • Freestyle Canoe

    FreeStyle canoeing is technical quiet water paddling. It emphasizes smooth, efficient paddling and precise boat control on flat water.

  • General Boating

    The Online Boating Course is approved to meet the basic boater education requirements in certain states. Be sure to check the regulations in your state.

  • GPS for Mariners

    GPS for Mariners is a modern learning experience that focuses on the GPS equipment typically owned by the recreational boater.

  • How to Read a Nautical Chart

    A three hour seminar course unraveling the mystery of charts.

  • How To Use a Chart

    This seminar walks you through what you really need to know in an entertaining and interesting fashion.

  • Instructor Development

    Instructor Development teaches effective communication skills for not only USPS instructors but everyone, covering various methods of presenting information to others, effective use of audiovisual aids (including PowerPoint), etc. For members only.

  • Introduction to Canoe

    Introduction to Canoe focuses on basic tandem or solo canoe skills for sitting paddlers. Presentations include dressing to paddle safely and potential paddling hazards.

  • Junior Navigation

    Junior Navigation teaches the basics of offshore navigation, including basic celestial navigation using the sun and offshore course planning. For members only.

  • Let's Go Sailing

    The course is designed for the person who wants to begin sailing in a small boat, learning each step the right way, and in the process build the skills and confidence that will serve as the foundation for a lifetime of enjoyment.

  • Marine Electronics

    Marine Electronics covers installation and maintenance of both boat electrical systems (AC and DC) and marine electronics (VHF radio, radar, GPS, etc).

  • Navigation

    The U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary's Navigation course is a comprehensive course to prepare the boater with the knowledge needed to safely pilot a boat.

  • Navigation

    Navigation is the most advanced navigation course taught by USPS, covering more advanced celestial navigation techniques, emergency navigation, and additional sight reduction techniques. For members only.

  • On Board Weather Forecasting

    While not a course in weather, this seminar explains how just using your own senses can help you determine what conditions you will encounter where you are.

  • Online Boater Safety Handbooks

    Boat Ed develops and publishes the official state handbook of boating laws for numerous state boating agencies.

  • Oregon Boating Course

    The Online Boating Course is approved to meet the basic boater education requirements for Oregon.

  • Personal Water Craft Safety

    The U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary's Personal Watercraft course is a very basic introduction to the safety issues involved when operating a PWC.

  • Personal Water Craft Safety

    Learn about safe boating and personal watercraft, become more knowledgeable about state rules and regulations, and earn a PWC Safety Wallet Card.

  • Personal Watercraft Course

    The Online Boating Course is approved to meet the basic boater education requirements in certain states. Be sure to check the regulations in your state.

  • Piloting

    Piloting is the first and most basic navigation course, covering chart reading, course plotting, and basic coastal or inland navigation, including basic GPS usage. This course is for members only.

  • QuickStart Your Canoe

    QuickStart is a brief introduction to paddling a canoe or kayak. Students are presented with basic information on dressing to paddle safely and potential hazards and simple rescues.

  • Requirements for Recreational Boaters

    In this course, Capt. Steve takes you on a video tour of not only what is required, but also why it's required.

  • Safe and Knowledgeable Boater

    In this course you will learn how to become a safe and knowledgeable boater.

  • Sail

    Sail covers everything from the basic elements of how a sailboat works to sail trim, rig tuning, and sailboat racing. For members only.

  • Seamanship

    Seamanship covers basic deck seamanship, marlinspike (knots and ropes), anchoring and rafting, basic boat care and maintenance, and nautical and USPS customs and etiquette. This is for members only.

  • Small Boat Sailing Level 1 Instructor Course

    This course is designed to teach sailing instructors on-the-water group management and instruction techniques for dinghies, multihull and small daysailing keelboats.

  • Small Boat Sailing Level 2 Coach Workshop

    This course is designed to provide coaches with information on how to effectively develop performance boat handling and racing skills and to instill in athletes the importance of ethical behavior and sportsmanship in the sport of sailing.

  • Smart Boating

    Smart Boating will take you from basic boating to the intermediate level with over 250 menu items, plus complete explanations for all right and wrong answers to over 290 engaging, interactive questions.

  • Smart Boating's Emergencies Afloat

    In this course, Capt. Steve takes you on a step-by-step tour of some of the most common boating emergencies, as well as the uncommon ones, and gives you the tools to competently handle not only your emergencies, but to render assistance to other boater's emergencies as well.

  • SmartStart Paddling Orientation

    This one-hour orientation course will expose participants to basic safety and paddling skills.

  • Squadron Boating Course

    Learn the fundamentals of safe boat handling and operation, and basic piloting in one comprehensive classroom course. The course is meant to be of interest to the whole family, and we encourage your family to attend as a group.

  • Suddenly In Command

    This 4-hour boating safety primer is designed for those not generally at the helm, and will help you to �be prepared� with the basics in case of an emergency.

  • Using GPS

    This seminar explains the principles of waypoint navigation which you will use. It then shows you how to relate the GPS to your charts which provide essential information about what is around you.

  • Using VHF & VHF/DSC Marine Radio

    This seminar explains basic VHF operation.

  • USPS Education

    U.S. Power Squadrons provide many skill building opportunities to the general public through a variety of boating safety and education courses, seminars, and marine-related guides. Our instructors are certified regarding their ability to teach and to use of modern instructional techniques. All classes are fun and informative, and bring you into contact with other boaters.

  • Waypoints

    Targeted to youth in grades 4-6, this course includes many of the main points of the adult 8-hr Boating Safely Course.

  • Weather

    Weather covers weather forecasting and reading weather patterns on-board. For members only.

  • Whitewater Canoe

    The goal of this course is to provide an introduction and preparation to paddle safely and comfortably on whitewater up to Class II.