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Philip Quarles' Boating Resume

More About Me

I have charted from the Moorings in the in the British Virgin Islands multiple times. Destinations included Jt. Johns, Peter Island, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda, Anagada

My Northeast cruising experience includes trips to Essex, CT, Newport RI, Cataumet in Buzzards Bay, MA, Edgartown MA, New Bedford MA, Woods Hole MA. Sag Harbor LI, Block Island RI. Shelter Island LI

Teaches These USPS Courses

  • Boating Safety

  • Piloting

  • Advanced Piloting

  • Junior Celestial Navigation (using the Sun)

  • Celestial Navigation (using stars, moon and planets)

USPS Certifications 

Boating Safety Instructor

Took These USPS Courses

  • Celestial Navigation (navigating using stars, moon, and planets)

  • Junior Celestial Navigation (navigating using the Sun)

  • Advanced Piloting

  • Piloting

  • Cruise Planning

  • Engine Maintenance

  • Marine Electrical Systems

  • Sail

  • Seamanship

  • Weather

  • Basic Powerboat Handling​

Took These US Sailing Courses 

  • Basic Keelboat

  • ​Basic Cruising

  • ​Bareboat Cruising

  • Coastal Passage Making

  • Coastal Navigation

  • Holds Current US Sailing Safety at Sea Certificate

Took These Offshore Sailing School Courses

Fast Tracking to Cruising

Completed a six-day live abroad sail training program on a Hunter 48 in Newport RI to earn my US Sailing Basic Cruising and Bareboat Cruising certificates

Coastal Navigation and Coastal Passage Making

Completed an eight-day training program in the British Virgin Islands.  Six days of which were spent on a 50 ft sailboat cruising to St. Martins and St. Barts and other British Virgin Island destinations to earn my US Sailing Coastal Passage Making and Coastal Navigation certificate 

Took This US Powerboating Course

Safe Powerboat Handling at the Maritime Academy in the Bronx

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