Cost: $1495 per student
Duration and Availability: 7 days, 6 nights: Start on Saturday morning and concludes on the following Friday afternoon. The 110 course is offered all year long.
Course description: The 110 course is specifically designed for persons that have daysailing experience, up to those that have extensive small boat sailing experience, but do not have, or are limited when it comes to navigation, large vessel handling, or open water experience.
The prospective 110 student that has not completed our 100 level course should have a good understanding of sail handling, sail trim, points of sail, vessel nomenclature and know how to tie a cleat, bowline and clove hitch. We suggest that all 110 students acquire a copy of Bob Bond's Handbook of Sailing or some other general sailing handbook and review these items.
One of the ways that Ocean Masters Sailing Academy is different, than all the other schools, is that we use our course designators as an effort on our part to ascertain your experience and ability level. The amount or level of the material to be covered in a course is dictated by the abilities of the students, not by a predefined course designation. Our task is to put together two to four students on each vessel that have approximately the same level of experience and abilities. We find that if we are successful at this the final result of the class is greater than the sum of its parts and the students comes away with maximum benefit.
The following is a list of some of the items covered in the curriculum of the 110 course:
Navigation · Chart reading: · Tide and current tables · Aids to navigation · Taking and plotting bearings · Using LOP's to fix position · Using a single point LOP as a Range · Use of a stop watch in night navigation and how night time has its own dangers · Dead Reckoning and running fixes, the basics.
Safety · Man overboard drill · Rules of the Road · Fire safety · Propane aboard a vessel · When and how to call the USCG · Using a VHF Radio & Marine weather · The fine points of anchoring, single, double, Bahamian moor · Abandoning ship and the use of an EPIRB.
Vessel management · Diesel engines · Fuel systems · Cooling systems · Fresh water system · Refrigeration, the basics · DC electrical and batteries · AC electrical systems including shore power and generators · Waste systems and the law.
We like to think that Ocean Masters Sailing Academy is unique among sailing schools in our level of dedication to our students. Ocean Masters is one of the few schools whose primary focus is education; we are not a charter company that happens to set up a school to make some extra revenue. In fact, we do not charter at all. All of our instructors are seasoned Masters with USCG Sail/Auxiliary Licenses and our instructors average more than seventeen years experience each.
In the past year we have instituted a policy of providing transportation for our students to and from the airport. We have also developed relationships with some of the better lodging establishments in the Fort Lauderdale area and have negotiated corporate discounts, which we pass along to our students. We provide snorkeling gear on the vessel at no extra charge. Our course cost is all inclusive including provisions, port fees, instructor, linens, navigation tools, charts, fuel and ice. All of this is part of a continuing effort on our part to do all we can for our students. If you have any questions please feel free to give us a call.