The Burnaby Squadron Boating Guide Series

The Burnaby Squadron Boating Guide Series is a public contribution from the Burnaby Power & Sail Squadron, a member of the Canadian Power & Sail Squadrons, Pacific Mainland District, to the advancement of "Safe Boating through Education".

The Boating Guide Series is the result of articles and instructional material prepared by members of the Burnaby Squadron, and contributions received from other members of the Canadian Power & Sail Squadrons and United States Power Squadrons.

We hope this Series receives your approval, contributing to your knowledge and enhancing your boating skills.

Please feel free to make suggestions of other subjects that you would like to find in this Boating Guide Series or make your contribution with articles and graphics. We will consider all submissions.

The Boating Guide Series is divided into the following 10 categories:

BB - Boating Basics
EL - Electronics
EN - Environment
GN - General
MA - MAREP
NA - Navigation
PR - Marine Protocol
RA - Radio Communications
RR - Rules and Regulations
SS - Seamanship

If you would like to contribute with an article that can be added to the Burnaby Squadron Boating Guide Series, send us a note and attach the material you would like to submit together with all corresponding graphics. We will get back to you as soon as possible and work out the details to incorporate it to our materials.

To download any of our Boating Guides click here:

Printing the Burnaby Squadron Boating Guide Series

Standard version.

After downloading the Standard version of the Burnaby Squadron Boating Guide you may print each page sequentially on individual pages to be bound or used as transparencies for instructing. If you wish to print double sided, print all odd pages first and then, reversing the pages and their order, print the even pages. Cut to size.

Some printers enable expanding the 5 ½ x 8 ½ pages of the Guides to fit the sheet you print on. You might wish to do this if the output definition of your printer allows.

Booklet version.

The Booklet version may contain 4 or more (5 ½ x 8 ½) Guide pages on 2 or more (8 ½ x 11 pages) PDF file pages. (2 Guide pages per PDF page)

The Booklet version appears to be scrambled but has been developed to be printed on 8 ½ x 11 sheets (both sides) and then folded in half to form a booklet that can then be stapled and/or perforated (using the perforation marks on the back page) and kept in a binder.

The sequence described below is based on manually feeding one page at a time. You may improve on this depending on the capabilities of your printer.

1.      Print only HALF the number of pages of the PDF file on 8 ½ x 11 sheets.

2.      Now manually feed each page, in the order they were just printed (1 – 2 – 3, etc.), to print the other side and complete the booklet with the rest of the pages.

3.      For you to check, we give you the printing sequence [one side and the other] for different booklet sizes.

        a)      4 page booklet : [1 – 2]

        b)      8 page booklet: [1 – 3]; [2 – 4]

        c)      12 page booklet: [1 – 4]; [2 – 5]; [3 – 6], etc.

4.      Now collate the pages and fold them in half to form each booklet.

5.      You can now staple the booklet or perforate appropriate holes to place it in a binder, using the perforation template on the back page.