Pre-registration
is required. Call Starling Mikell
III at 717-764-0888 to register.
This is a joint venture of SYC and the York Flotilla of the U.S. Coast Guard
Auxiliary. The course, which is open to
the public, is now in its 35th year and has been completed by more
than 1,000 men, women and teenagers from around the area.
Topics covered at the sessions include:
The main textbook will be a new, comprehensive CG
Auxiliary publication, "Sailing Skills and Seamanship", augmented by "Let's Go
Sailing" by famed sail racer Peter Islar. The only fee for the course is for
the two books.
Course instructors will be both Coast Guard Auxiliary
members, and several SYC sailors who combine more than 200 years of boating,
cruising and sail racing experience. The
head instructor is SYC Past Commodore Starling Mikel III of York, who has been
sailing for many years on both the Susquehanna and Chesapeake Bay.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be awarded
both Coast Guard Auxiliary and State of Pennsylvania Safe Boating
Certificates.
For additional information on the Pennsylvania Safe Boating
Certificate please visit: PA Fish & Boat Commission
For information on the classes, you can call Lindy Harrison at 717-755-1124
between 4 and 10 p.m or Starling Mikell III at 717-764-0888.