Narragansett, RI -- March 20, 2001 --
Anyone just starting out in boating needs
to be able to get from one point to
another with some degree of confidence,
skill, and safety. To help boaters achieve
that goal, Friends of Oceanography at the
URI Graduate School of Oceanography is
offering a short course in Navigation for
Beginners, given by avid sailor Arthur
(Mac) Cuddy, president of West Bay
Sailing, Inc., and former navigator for
the Annapolis-Newport, Marblehead-Halifax,
Newport-Bermuda, and Bermuda-Copenhagen
races.
The course will be held on Tuesday
evening, April 10, from 6-9 p.m. in the
Coastal Institute Building on the URI Bay
Campus in Narragansett.
Course participants will learn to use a
nautical chart and learn what the
abbreviations, symbols, colors, numbers,
and contour lines mean. Cuddy will provide
an introduction to the U.S. system of
buoys, lights, and lighthouses, as well as
the use of parallels and dividers, the
compass, and other instruments. Course
plotting and dead reckoning will also be
introduced.
Cost for Navigation for Beginners is
$25 for Friends of Oceanography members
and $35 for non-members. Preregistration
is required. For information or
registration call Friends of Oceanography
at 874-6602.
Friends of Oceanography is a
community-based membership organization
established in 1986 to support the
educational and public programs of the URI
Graduate School Oceanography. Friends
provides financial support of fellowships
for GSO students, and other research,
education, and outreach activities. The
organization also helps sponsor a variety
of special events such as The JASON
Project, oceanography lectures, Bounty on
the Bay Day, the Annual Friends of
Oceanography Auction, open houses, and the
Narragansett Bay Classroom.
Visit the URI Graduate School
of Oceanography website:
http://www.gso.uri.edu/
Contact: Lisa Cugini, 874-6642,
lcugini@gso.uri.edu
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