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RE: US Sailing Certification - Forwarded

Tucker, Angela (atucke@lsumc.edu)
Mon Jun 01 07:56:38 1998


Please send me more information about becoming certified, put my name on
the list and keep me updated.
Thank you
AN Tucker Ship 2
Shreveport,La .

> ----------
> From: Bruce C Johnson[SMTP:bjoh@loc.gov]
> Reply To: seascout-net@scouter.com
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 1998 6:39 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: US Sailing Certification - Forwarded
>
> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 14:07:54 -0500
> From: "William H. Sills" <whs@idcnet.com>
> Reply-To: whs@idcnet.com
> To: "seascout-net@scouter.com" <seascout-net@scouter.com>
> Subject: US Sailing Certification
>
> Often, the wonderful things that the National Sea Scout
> Committee and Bill Rogers, our dedicated National Director of Sea
> Scouting,
> do for us go unheralded. Quietly and with little fanfare they serve
> and
> have served Sea Scouting in a myriad of ways.
>
> Skipper Ed Jirsa of Racine successfully completed the US
> Sailing
> basic keel boat instructor course held in
> Chicago last week. He did so well that he was certified as a
> US Sailing Basic Instructor at the completion of the session. Ed
> already
> holds a US Coast Guard Master's license so he is ready to serve us all
> on
> any waters!!!
>
>
> Any Sea Scout or Sea Scouter that wishes to become certified in
> small boats should contact me . Now that we have Ed and US Sailing
> Certified Instructor Trainer Joe Van
> Rooy to teach sailing, we will be scheduling "BSA In House" classes in
> the
> near future.
>
> Youth may become certified too. My eldest son was certified,
> unfortunately for me not reimbursed by the BSA
> <VBG>, when he was 16. Younger youth become certified associates and
> automatically become fully certified after one year.
>
> Ed's tuition and expenses were reimbursed by the
> BSA. National Director of Sea Scouting Bill Rogers obtained an Olympic
> Grant for the purpose of training Sea Scout leaders as US Sailing
> Instructors. Hopefully, enough Sea
> Scouters will become US Sailing Certified so that we have at least one
> US
> Sailing Certified Instructor in each area and two or three certified
> US
> Sailing Instructor-Trainers in each region. That way, we can fill the
> gap
> left when the Red
> Cross discontinued its sailing training program.
>
> Again, the BSA needs more sailing instructors in every region
> of
> the BSA. Feel free to contact me for information about becoming a
> certified
> US Sailing
> Instructor.
>
> YISS;
> Bill Sills
>
>
>


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