Know-How to Keep Your Vessel Ship-Shape!
Learn DIY techniques from the marine tech pros at SVC Cruiser’s College.
Classes & Workshops
Advanced First Aid/CPR for Mariners
Sat. Jan. 4, 2025, 8 am –
Sun. Jan. 5, 2025, 4:30 pm
Combining a highly experiential (16 hour) in-person training with our (4-6 hour) self-paced Maritime Medicine Online course, this program provides all the skills practice and knowledge needed to handle a range of medical and traumatic emergencies at sea. This class is US Sailing accredited, meets World Sailing Offshore Special Regulation (OSR 6.05) Medical Training requirements, US Sailing Senior First Aid Requirements, is valid for US Coast Guard Merchant Mariner credentials, and can be used to re-certify a Wilderness First Responder certificate within its grace period. For more information about the program, and to register, read below.
What’s Happening Report:
Cruisers College, 2024-2025
We really expanded our offerings, lengthened some courses, and received an amazing amount of good feedback.
We have our fall courses published and have lots of options – check us out.
I’m excited and my batteries are recharged after being on the for a couple of months this summer cruising the inside passage! I hope you get to take some courses and learn lots of information from our team.
Feel free to email me with questions, comments, or ideas for courses you’d like see us offer. Just click the ‘contact’ button above.
Smooth Seas,
Michael
Full year of Canvas Courses this season
Our past offerings have been going great and our 2 week professional course offered this past summer sold out and was a big hit with participants.
Mike Resse is planning a full set of courses who want to learn canvas this season. We start with our “Boot Camp” which will teach you the basics, and then offer many indvidual topics which are folowed up with makers-space offerings where you can come into our facility and have your own machine to sew all day with Mike there to offer support. These are fun days and we enjoy the variety of projects thata get completed.
See Classes & events for all the options
Check out Mike’s website: https://www.seaboundcanvas.com/canvas-training
Cruising the Inside Passage to Alaska
Sat, March 15, 2025, 8:00 am –
Sun, March 16, 2025, 4:30 pm
Space pac
This two-day seminar covers all the information you need to plan and prepare to cruise the Inside Passage to Southeast Alaska; including sights, activities, and destinations throughout Northern British Columbia, as well as Southeast Alaska.
For this popular seminar, we have 5 instructors over the 2-day course, sharing decades of knowledge covering this extensive territory. This is a magical trip, and we want to help you plan the trip of a lifetime. “This class will be referencing the following publications: 2025 Waggoner Cruising Guide, 2025 Ports & Passes, Local Knowledge A Skipper’s Reference, and the Douglass guidebook Exploring Southeast Alaska.”
Mahina 2025 Offshore Cruising Workshop: John Neal and others
Saturday March 08, 2025, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Sunday March 09, 2025, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
The Mahina Offshore 2-day Cruising Seminar (174 presented since 1976 to 11,000 sailors) with Skagit Valley College’s Cruisers College is the event to attend if you have aspirations of sailing offshore. Learn about important topics including marine diesel engines and systems, marine electrical systems, plus sail repair, sewing, anchoring, storms, & costs of cruising. Included in the seminar cost of $595 per single or $995 per couple is one copy of the Offshore Cruising Companion, the 260-page textbook which retails for $60.
