Basic Marine Weather

An understanding of basic weather is an important attribute of seamanship. Renowned mariner, instructor and BCA member, Scott Crawshaw facilitates this 1/2 day workshop that will introduce cruisers to the fundamentals of weather, enable them to combine weather forecasts (VHF) with personal observation, and relate it to their immediate situation. Participants will learn relevant information that will build their confidence and help ensure their enjoyment and safety at sea in both foul and fair weather.

If this sounds like a tall order for a 3-hour course, that’s because you’ve probably never taken a course from Scott before. He not only knows his stuff, he knows how to teach it.

Topics Covered

Course participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of weather, which include:

• Air Circulation Patterns
• Pressure and Temperature and Moisture
• Air Masses
• Fronts and Cyclogenesis
• Fog, Clouds and Precipitation
• Weather Maps
• Sources of Local Weather Information

Note: Please do not register for this course if you have already signed up for or intend to take  Scott’s Intermediate Weather Course as Basic Marine Weather is included as part of that course.

Instructor

Scott Crawshaw has sailed for over 40 years and has over 50,000 miles of ocean water experience.  This includes skippering the Royal Canadian Navy’s Tall Ship, HMCS Oriole and four years of offshore sailing with his family aboard Peregrinata.  His qualifications include a Transport Canada Master Mariner, unlimited tonnage; a Navy Surface Command Qualification, unlimited tonnage; an ISPA instructor, a CYA Yachtmaster, and a CRYA Ocean Yachtmaster Instructor.

Scott served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1979 to 2022.  He specialised in navigation and ship-handling and was the Navy’s Senior Navigation Instructor in 1989-1991 and again from 2006-2011.  In addition to HMCS Oriole he has commanded two of the RCN’s Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels and has extensive experience skippering the Orca class training vessels.

Scott has a degree in Physics and Physical Oceanography from Royal Roads Military College.  He lives in Victoria with his wife Sonia, where he is a part time yacht surveyor, a navigation and ship handling instructor in a world class bridge simulator, a sailing instructor, a relief skipper for the Pacific Swift, and a full-time grandpa.

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