About GLCCSchool

Welcome to GLCCSchool! Now well onto its second decade, the GLCCSchool offers a broad range of webinars that will appeal to all Great Lakes cruisers. Take a look at our Open Classes and Future Classes to see what is currently available or coming up.

Over the past decade, GLCCSchool has served thousands of students in the Great Lakes cruising community by providing a broad array of informative webinars addressing cruising-related topics and skills. Whether you're looking to learn more about the latest anchoring techniques and equipment, radar, boat maintenance, solar power, energy management, weather forecasting or are simply seeking experienced local knowledge on the hottest cruising areas in the Great Lakes, GLCCSchool has the webinar for you.

GLCCSchool is an offering of the Great Lakes Cruising Club, a non-profit organization of roughly 2500 US and Canadian members dedicated to encouraging recreational boaters to safely explore our five beautiful Great Lakes and connecting waterways. As a non-profit, the Great Lakes Cruising Club strives to provide affordable and informative cruising-related webinars to the greatest number of cruising boaters possible, with webinar registration fees used to help offset operating costs.

GLCCSchool webinars are conducted by experienced GLCC-accredited sail or power boating colleagues and industry specialists. Our webinars include instructors such as solar and high tech battery expert Tom Trimmer, rigging expert Joe Parker, radar expert Larry Brandt and diesel expert Jim Zima. On top of that our GLCCSchool instructors include cruisers who know the Great Lakes like the back of their hand.  People like long distance cruising expert and GLCC past Commodore Bill Rohde and experienced North Channel and Georgian Bay cruiser and GLCC Rear Commodore Dave Spencer.

GLCCSchool webinars are open to everyone, whether they are a Great Lakes Cruising Club member or not. Members of the US and Canadian Power Squadrons are eligible for a $5.00 discount. Webinars are absolutely free for memebers of the Great Lakes Crusing Club. For further information on discounts see the GLCC website's GLCCSchool Page, the USPS web site (www.usps.org), or the CPSS website (http://www.cps-ecp.ca) respectively.

All you need to participate in GLCCSchool webinars is a computer (Windows, Mac or Linux) with speakers or headphones, a browser, a reasonable speed internet connection and a desire to learn more about cruising our Great Lakes.

 

Questions? Just proceed to the Contact Us page and fill out the contact form there. One of our GLCCSchool Coordinators will get back to you.

 

We're on YouTube. Click here to see our YouTube video The GLCCSchool in Four Easy Steps.  It explains how to enroll in the GLCCSchool, how to register for webinars and how to obtain and use use your discount/free webinar coupons.

Upcoming classes

An Introduction to Marine Diesel Engines
Are you the Captain? How about the First Mate? Regardless of the role you play we all know how important a smooth running engine is to our cruising adventures. But do you really understand that chunk of iron that powers your boat?
Cooking and Cruising on the Great Lakes
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!
Navigating Locks
Sooner or later you'll encounter locks, but they don't need to be intimidating. Learn to successfully navigate locks in this information-packed webinar.
Weather Forecasting Apps
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.
Introduction to Cruising Lake Superior
This webinar will take you from the Sault Locks at the lake's eastern end, west along the lake's Michigan and Wisconsin southern shores, up Minnesota's northwest lakeshore, and finally along Ontario's breathtaking north and east wilderness shores before closing the circle in Whitefish Bay and the Sault. Lake Superior may be vast, but when understood, it provides unique and breathtaking cruising, historic destinations, interesting ports of call, pristine waters and secluded sailing and anchorages. Updated for 2025 and presented by Dave Carr.