Lackawanna Sail

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Lackawanna Sail Power Squadron Welcome

• The Lackawanna Sail Power Squadron offers
• Courses for Members
• National Discounts
• Boat Insurance, Mapping and Navigation Software,
  and Computer Discounts
  
• Boating and Meeting Activities
• Community Service
• Boating Course
• Vessel Safety Checks Cooperative Charting
• And
• Ensign magazine, Totem newsletter, Port Captains
• Contact
• 973 402-2672
• adminofficer_at_lackawanna.org

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Lackawanna Sail Power Squadron Courses for
Advanced Grades

• Seamanship in-depth course on all aspects of
  boating
  
• marlinespike, hull design performance, boat
  care, responsibilities, normal and abnormal
  conditions, emergencies,
  
• Piloting the fundamentals of coastal
  navigation
  
• charts, aids to navigation, compass adjustment
  use, dead reckoning, planning plotting courses,
  bearings to determine position,
  
• Advanced Piloting completes coastal navigation
• tides, tidal currents, planning courses with
  effect of current, radar,
  
• Junior Navigation the fundamentals of off-shore
  navigation
  
• taking sights with the sextant, sight reduction
  to determine position, planning passage with
  special ocean charts,
  
• Navigation completes off-shore navigation
• further concepts of celestial navigation,
  lifeboat navigation
  
• Elective courses can be taken in parallel

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Lackawanna Sail Power Squadron Elective Courses

• Weather forecast the weather based upon all
  information
  
• Awareness of phenomena, weather map, the sky,
  structure of atmosphere, development and movement
  of weather, factors entering into forecasting,
  instruments, cloud sequences, air masses, fronts,
  storms, fog, use of radio/TV broadcasts
• Marine Electronics the fundamentals from DC to
  GPS
  
• Batteries, wiring, grounding, electrolysis,
  corrosion, depth finders, radios, radar, loran,
  GPS
  
• Engine Maintenance how to diagnose troubles and
  make temporary remedies preventive maintenance
  
• Gas/diesel, 2/4 cycle, in/out board,, cooling,
  electrical, fuel lubricating systems, steering,
  etc.
  
• Construction, operating principles, maintenance
  and repair
  
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Lackawanna Sail Power Squadron Elective
Courses (cont.)

• Cruise Planning prepare for a short/long
  near/far cruise
  
• Planning financing, boat equipment, crew
  selection, provisioning, voyage management,
  navigation planning, weather communications,
  entering/clearing foreign domestic ports,
  anchoring, medical other emergencies, security
• Sail how to skipper a cruising sailboat
• Terminology, hulls, rigs, sail plans, running
  standing rigging adjustment, wind water forces
  and balance, points of sail, sail handling,
  sailing under conditions from light air to storm
  survival, instrumentation, marlinespike,
  emergency techniques unique to sailboats
• Operations Training how the organization is
  run
  
• Instructor Development the art of effective
  communications

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Lackawanna Sail Power Squadron National
Benefits

• Boat Insurance discount for members
• Significant discounts available for members
• Boat/US discount
• Only organization to receive a discount on towing
  - 10.00 off max. towing package.
  
• Membership discount - 9.50
• MapTech discount
• Maptech, a commercial producer of both paper and
  digital charts, is offering dealer discounts to
  individual squadrons. Their entire line of
  products applies.
• Nobeltec navigation software
• Nobeltec, the producer of navigation software and
  vector charts offers USPS members a 25 discount
  on all direct purchases of software and data
  (charts, etc).
• Dell discount
• Total of 10 off final price.

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Lackawanna Sail Power SquadronNational
Benefits - Boat Insurance

• Offered by The St. Paul Fire Marine Ins. Co.
• Discount of at least 10 to USPS members
  relative to premiums charged to non-members
  
• USPS members are preferred risk boaters
• Larger discount when member takes additional
  courses
  
• Broadest coverage available anywhere at
  competitive rates
  
• AGREED VALUE paid on total loss
• Liability coverage to 1,000,000 (higher limits
  available)
  
• Medical expense coverage 10,000
• Uninsured / underinsured boaters liability
  coverage
  
• Pollution liability coverage
• Automatic liability coverage for waterskiing
• Automatic liability coverage for non-owned boats
• Personal effects coverage
• Commercial towing coverage
• More classes take gives additional discount
• For more information or for a quote
• on a boat or PWC please call
• 800 763-USPS or visit WWW.USPS.ORG

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Lackawanna Sail Power Squadron National
Benefits - Boat Insurance (cont.)
Actual member savings
Your savings may not be comparable to these
savings.
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Lackawanna Sail Power Squadron Meeting
Activities
Our meetings are social, educational and
informational
The Fall Clam Bake featured lobsters as well as
clams.
A show and tell at the D/4 Conference.
The new Commander received the reins at our
Change of Watch.
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Lackawanna Sail Power Squadron Meeting
Activities (cont.)
Fall Clam Bake
Holiday Party
Annual Holiday Party
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Lackawanna Sail Power SquadronBoating
Activities
We mix boating and partying at a raft-up.
NYC harbor raft-up
Toms River tri-squadron raft-up
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Lackawanna Sail Power SquadronBoating
Activities (cont.)
Sail/Power Day in Toms River
NYC harbor cruise
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Lackawanna Sail Power SquadronVessel Safety
Check

• Vessel Safety Check Partners
• The US Power Squadrons and the USCG Auxiliary
• Members of Lackawanna Sail Power Squadron are
  eligible to become Vessel Examiners
  
• What is a Vessel Safety Check?
• The Vessel
• Proper display of numbers, Registration
  Documentation, Personal Floatation Devices, Life
  Jackets, Visual Distress Signals, Fire
  extinguishers, Ventilation, Backfire flame
  control, Sound producing devices, Navigation
  lights, State requirements, Overall vessel
  condition
• Boating Safety Education
• Accident reporting, Charts and aids to
  navigation, Survival tips, Fueling and fuel
  management, Float plans, Weather and sea
  conditions, Availability of boating safety
  classes
• Vessel awarded a VSC decal

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Lackawanna Sail Power Squadron Cooperative
Charting

• What is USPS Cooperative Charting?
• Current Agreement
• NOAA, NOS, CGS Relationships
• Why is USPS Cooperative Charting Important?
• United States Coast Pilot Reports
• Small Craft Facility Reports
• Nautical Cooperative Charting
• Aeronautical Cooperative Charting
• Geodetic Mark Recover
• Adopt-a-Chart

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Lackawanna Sail Power Squadron

• Courses for Members
• Seamanship, coastal piloting (2 courses),
  off-shore navigation (2 courses)
  
• Weather, Marine Electronics, Sail, Engine
  Maintenance, Cruise Planning,
  
• National Benefits
• Boat Insurance discount for members
• Boat/US discount
• MapTech discount
• Nobeltec navigation software
• Dell discount
• Boating and Meeting Activities
• Member meetings, holiday parties, clam bakes
• Sail-Power Day, raft-ups, cruises
• Community Service
• Boating Course
• Vessel Safety Checks
• Co-operative Charting
• And
• Ensign magazine, Totem newsletter, Port Captains

For more information please contact
973 402-2672
adminofficer_at_lackawanna.org