Become an expert in weather from home!

Marine Weather Home Study Course Study package includes: Manuscript (125+ pages, 90+ illustrations, 8.5" x 11", plastic coil binding) including numerical practice problems, several valuable tables for predicting winds from weather maps, and a complete set of the marine weather questions used on USCG license exams organized by topic, along with a complete photocopy of NOAA Commander Kenneth Lilly's text Marine Weather of Western Washington. $89.00   ...item# 1821

This text course is the forerunner of our Weather Trainer software program. It is also the text materials we use in our classroom course on marine weather. In short we have two course products on marine weather, this text version and our software version. Now includes the interactive CD Rom "Coastal Weather for British Columbia Mariners" from Environment Canada. Though the examples on the CD are from BC, the concepts therein are applicable to most regions. Below are some screenshots taken from it. If you have access to a computer for extended study, we would recommend the software version, the Starpath Weather Trainer. It is covers a broader range of topics in more detail — the interactive Weather Trainer Glossary, for example, would be a large book of some 800 pages if presented in print format. On the other hand, this text course has merits of its own. For one thing, the subject matter is more distilled. No one needs to know all of what is in the Weather Trainer Glossary, for example. And this text version includes a complete photocopy of Ken Lilly's excellent book on Marine Weather, which is a far broader treatment of the subject than might be guessed from the title. Ken Lilly's book is out of print except for copies produced by Starpath, which we can offer as we are the original publishers. The set of USCG practice questions is also a unique resource. If you don't have access to a computer or you simply prefer to study such material from text rather than from a computer screen, then this is the product for you. Needless to say, you will ultimately learn what you want to know about marine weather from this text product just as well as from the software because we are standing by to answer any questions you might have that you do not find answered in the text materials. This course will provide answers to these specific issues of marine weather and if you can't find the specific sections in the materials, send us an e-mail or call. This course will prepare you for certification tests offered by any sailing association in any nation. We also offer our own certification tests if you care to challenge yourself this way or to prepare for other tests. Each Starpath course includes free access to our online Resources and Discussion groups. If any question comes up, just post it here for a quick answer—or search to see if someone has already asked the question.