Thursday in the GLCCSchool – Marine Communications: Outfitting Your Boat for the Great Lakes

Join us this Thursday as Christian Sandvig presents his GLCCSchool webinar Marine Communications: Outfitting Your Boat for the Great Lakes.  The right communication equipment depends to a large degree on where you cruise and on the Great Lakes you can encounter a wide variety of conditions --- cruising port to port, open water crossings and cruising in and out of two countries where different rules may apply.  All of this can occur on the Great Lakes. 

In this GLCCSchool webinar, Christian Sandvig will review how to outfit your boat for communication on the Great Lakes. He will cover radio, satellite and internet options, as well as how to best address your needs to communicate for distress, navigation and just staying connected. On top of that he will address options for outfitting your boat with VHF, DSC, AIS, PLBs, EPIRBs, SARTs, antennas, various MOB devices and more. 

Want to learn more about marine communications? Check out Christian’s companion webinar Marine Communications: How to Talk on a Marine Radio.  It is available as a recording in the GLCCSchool’s Recording Library

Christian Sandvig is a professor at the University of Michigan and an active member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. He has cruised in the Pacific Northwest, Mid-Atlantic States and the Mediterranean. He currently enjoys traveling the Great Lakes on a custom steel trawler whose hailing port is Detroit, Michigan. Christian is an amateur radio enthusiast and amateur radio license instructor. He has taught radio communication courses for over 20 years, and as a USCG Auxiliary member he volunteers answering marine radio distress calls. 

Register now at the Great Lakes Cruising Club School.

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Don’t forget all GLCCSchool webinars are free to any member of the GLCC.