Save yourself months of preparation time by letting Modern Sailing Academy lead you through the Coast Guard licensing process. We are an approved training facility, which means we can administer the licensing exam, saving you the headache and red tape of dealing with a regional exam center.

This course is taught by Retired Lt. Commander Stan Lander. During his Coast Guard career, Stan was assigned to ships and duty stations in some of the world's most highly traveled cruising areas, including the Chesapeake Bay, Puerto Rico, and Miami, Florida.  While serving on the USCG Cutters Morganthau and Northland, he engaged in both rescue and maritime law enforcement actions in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Eastern Pacific, NW Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

The Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessel (OUPV) and 100-ton Master course prepares the student to meet the qualification requirements for a US Coast Guard OUPV and Masters License in Near Coastal waters.  The OUPV license allows you to take up to 6 passengers for hire, and the Master's license will allow you to operate commercial inspected vessels.  If you want to be a powerboat or sailing instructor, take paying passengers for a cruise on your boat or be hired as a skipper for a commercial vessel, you need this course.

Once you have met sea service and personal requirements (drug test, physical exam, etc.), this course will prepare you for the extensive testing which is required. Most importantly, the testing will be administered here at the conclusion of the course. The OUPV and Master courses are 56 and 80 hours, respectively, and are offered in both full-day and night class formats.

OUPV/100-ton Schedule: Our licensing classes follow a schedule of 8-hour days on the weekends and 3hour night classes twice a week. The OUPV class is 56 hours total, and the 100-ton continues for an additional 24 hours.

Tuition:
$995 for OUPV
$1195 for 100-ton