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The GLCCSchool is gearing up for a brand new 2024-25 season. Our GLCCSchool team is busy lining up presenters and new webinars are being added every day. Check back often to see what's new.
Cruising Guide
Craig Murchison
Do you dream about cruising the Great Lakes? Are you thinking about cruising farther afield in the Great Lakes? If so, this webinar is your place to start.
Living Aboard
Mark Gagyi
Mark Gagyi, GLCC Port Captain and long time Great Lakes cruiser shares recipes and cooking tips to save your cruise from tin cans and packaged food. Of course the cooking is always fun, it has to be when it happens in a boat's galley!
Weather
Mark Thornton
There are plenty of apps devoted to marine weather observations and forecasting. Let marine forecaster, Mark Thornton, help you to sort out the strengths and weaknesses of several popular marine weather apps.
Cruising Guide
Mark Gagyi
From major cities to quaint fishing ports, from island anchorages to first class marinas --- the 2nd largest concentration of boaters in North America already know about Lake Erie's charms. Do you?
Cruising Guide
Dave Spencer
Georgian Bay is well known as a cruiser’s paradise for good reason. From the cliffs of the Bruce Peninsula to the busy harbours of off Severn Sound to the winding Small Craft Route up the eastern shore, Georgian Bay offers variety, scenery and adventure for the cruising boater. This webinar explores Georgian Bay’s beautiful anchorages as well as the towns and small settlements that serve the boating community along its shores.
Cruising Guide
Dave Spencer
This seminar will cover the area of Northern Georgian Bay from Byng to Killarney. The area is largely wilderness, has a variety of wonderful anchorages and is unique in the Great Lakes as many of the waters are unsounded. You need a sense of adventure to cruise here.
Cruising Guide
Dave Spencer
If you are planning your first or twenty-first cruise to the North Channel, you are sure to appreciate this thorough look at Anchorages of the North Channel. This updated webinar will provide a detailed look at both the well-known and the little-visited anchorages of the North Channel has to offer. Join Dave Spencer as he shares his many years of experience in this wonderful part of our Great Lakes.
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This is a webinar series that Great Lakes boaters should not miss. Boating on the Great Lakes requires many skills, but none is more important than a basic understanding of marine weather forecasting.
Weather
Mark Thornton
Marine Weather Basics is the first class in the GLCC School’s four-part Marine Weather Essentials series tailored for Great Lakes boaters and offered for either individual or specially priced package registration.
Weather
Mark Thornton
This second class in the GLCC School’s four-part Marine Weather Essentials series explores the forces controlling the wind, and then examines how Doppler weather radar is an important resource in avoiding a hair-raising encounter with a thunderstorm.
Weather
Mark Thornton
The third session in GLCC School’s four-part Marine Weather Essentials series delves into large-scale surface weather patterns.
Weather
Mark Thornton
This final class in GLCC’s four-part Marine Weather Essentials series covers thunderstorms and offers a strategy for preparing your own daily marine forecast.
Package
This is a two-date webinar. 3/18/25 and 3/25/25
Thunderstorms can quickly spoil an outing in many ways—strong winds, large waves, dangerous lightning, waterspouts, or visibility-limiting rain. This in-depth two-session webinar will examine the various types of thunderstorms and the ingredients that lead to their formation.
Weather
This is part 1 of a two-date webinar. 3/18/25 and 3/25/25
Mark Thornton
Thunderstorms can quickly spoil an outing in many ways—strong winds, large waves, dangerous lightning, waterspouts, or visibility-limiting rain. This in-depth two-session webinar will examine the various types of thunderstorms and the ingredients that lead to their formation.
Weather
This is part 2 of a two-date webinar. 3/18/25 and 3/25/25
Mark Thornton
Thunderstorms can quickly spoil an outing in many ways—strong winds, large waves, dangerous lightning, waterspouts, or visibility-limiting rain. This in-depth two-session webinar will examine the various types of thunderstorms and the ingredients that lead to their formation.