The Grand Lake Power Squadron offers boaters an extensive offering of United States Power Squadron courses and seminars lead by an excellent group of experienced boaters and sailors.

Improve your boating skills and knowledge

USPS offers a full range of educational experiences for both novice and experienced boaters.  We teach a variety of comprehensive courses to advance your know-how of seamanship, boat handling, and other related courses.  

Learn as much as you want

Our Squadron offers in-depth USPS courses (usually 6-8 weeks), focused to-hour sessions, and skills certification in inland, coastal, and offshore navigation and boat operation.  Mix and match to suit your boating education needs.

Our curriculum includes:
  • America's Boating Course (an excellent introduction to boating and safety on the water)
  • Seamanship (extends boating knowledge, operations and skills)
  •  Piloting and Navigation (an extensive set of courses including Piloting, Advanced Piloting, Junior Navigation, Navigation, and Electronic Navigation)
  • Elective Courses
  • First Aid/CPR - The Grand Lake Sail and Power Squadron strives through its training programs to make boating a safe and enjoyable adventure.  But, sometimes things do not go right or unforeseen events occur and someone is hurt, injured, or becomes ill.  When medical emergencies occur aboard a vessel at sea, quick and appropriate action becomes a life-saving event. Through the CPR and First Aid training you will learn the latest techniques on performing these lifesaving skills. They will include: CPR for Adults and Children, Use of an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), First Aid Basics. Medical Emergencies, Injury Emergencies 

Get Your Boating Education Underway!

Upcoming USPS Education offered by the Grand Lake Power Squadron
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We have a tentative schedule worked out and are canvassing members as to their interest in taking a class, or two, during the year.  The schedule as we have it so far is shown as follows, and we anticipate adding more classes as interest dictates.

START DATE                                        COURSE                                                                     SESSIONS
Jan 9, 2018                                           Operations Training                                             1 Session
March 5, 2018                                    Advanced Piloting                                                 8 Sessions
March 20, 2018                                 ABC Boat Safety                                                     5 Sessions 
April 2018                                             Engine Maintenance                                            6 Sessions   
Sep 10, 2018                                        Seamanship                                                               6 Sessions
Oct 22, 2018                                        Seamanship                                                              6 Sessions
Nov 15, 2018                                       CPR Training                                                             1 Session

Also, remember that all members receive a free class every year. So, if you are interested in one of these scheduled classes or another class, please contact Roger Zinn, our Education Officer (call 918-676-3254) or email rogerzinn601@yahoo.com)
Engine Maintenance
Heads Up!!  We are working to pull together a class in Engine Maintenance tentatively starting in April, depending upon student interest and schedules.   This class will likely have 6 sessions, 5 sessions of class instruction and 1 session for the review and exam. ​ 

Advanced Piloting

Next Course March 2018.  The class will meet once per week for 8 weeks with the exam given the last week.   The total course fees will be $80 (books + tools) or $60 (books only). The required tools are a plotter and dividers. 

Location: Grand Lake Association building at 9360 Hwy. 59, Grove, OK

America's Boating Course

Next Course: March and Oct  2018
​The course fee for the Class is $39.00 per person. For couples sharing a book, the additional fee is $13 for the second person.


The new Engine Maintenance course has been put into one ten chapter course that stresses the diagnosis of modern systems, while also teaching the basics of engine layout and operation. Gasoline inboards, outboards, and diesel engines are taught in a way that reinforces the common aspects of how engines work. This new course is complete in one book with one exam.

​Advanced Piloting is the next course in the sequence of USPS piloting courses. This course covers advanced positioning techniques, use of a variety of electronic tools, radar, depth, autopilots, chart plotters, etc.   Also covered are hazard and collision avoidance using electronics.  Working with tide and current data to determine clearance, depth of water and effects of current, and piloting in various wind and current conditions.
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​America’s Boating Course (ABC3) is the introductory boating safety and operation course of the United States Power Squadron.  It is an in-depth course taught to the public by certified instructors of the Grand Lake Sail & Power Squadron


​Contact: Roger Zinn, AP










​​Contact: Roger Zinn, AP 












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​Contact: Roger Zinn, AP
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Congratulations to the Americas Boating Course Class Graduates of March 2018. Pictured from left to right are Jean and Don Jones, Michelle and Gregg Hooper, Roger Zinn AP, and Steve Snyder
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Congratulations to the graduates of the 2016 Piloting Class, Pictured from left to right are Jim Sweeten SN, Roger Zinn P, Bob Russell P, instructor Baxter Thorman JN, Bruce Watson P, Linda Watson P, Mary Alice Moore P, and Ken Moore P (graduate Earl Starkman P is not pictured
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