United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 05-02 Concord-Carlisle Regional High School, Concord, MA

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Welcome... Flotilla 02 of Division 05, First Northern District, United States Coast Guard (Auxiliary) takes pride in our cooperative efforts to serve the Boating Public and to act as Force Multipliers for the United States Coast Guard in and around Boston, Massachusetts. We are particularly active in the areas of Public Education, Vessel Safety and Vessel Operations in the Greater Boston Area, and we work closely with our fellow Active Duty, Reserve and Auxiliary Coast Guard Personnel to fulfill the duties of the United States Coast Guard in the 21st Century. We are pleased that our membership continues to grow and new members are being added to our ranks all the time. We are particularly fortunate to have so many outstanding marine resources available in the Greater Boston Operational Area. Boston is a beautiful and vibrant historic port-city with a rich American Maritime Heritage offering numerous recreational and boating opportunities for people of all ages and interests. Boston boasts multiple marinas as well as large port facilities from which sailors, anglers, cruisers and vacationers may enjoy the countless attractions Boston offers its residents and visitors alike. The United States Coast Guard and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary take pride in serving and protecting the American People and the Cultural/Historic and Marine Resources unique to the Greater Boston Operational Area. What are some of the Duties and Responsibilities of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary? We Serve as Force Multipliers for the Active Duty & Reserve Elements of the United States Coast Guard; We Provide Outreach and Public Education to the (Boating) Public; We Teach (New) Boaters about Responsible Recreational Boating, Navigation & GPS to Enhance Recreational Boating Safety; We Provide Courtesy Vessel Safety Inspections; We Perform Safety/Security Patrols; We Teach & Help to Maintain Homeland Security Awareness: (Through Educational & Operational Activities); We Perform Search & Rescue Operations; We Provide Administrative Support for the Active Duty Coast Guard; & We Engage in Marine Safety Operations. For those individuals visiting our website for the first time, we are pleased to invite you to take a moment to familiarize yourself with the many marine, weather, boating and education resources available through United States Coast Guard and United States Coast Guard Auxiliary via this and other associated websites.  Each of the pages of this website contain information and/or links which we believe you will find useful; our fellow Auxiliarists tend to make more use of the pages noted immediately below. On our "Member Info" page we provide many useful links to U.S.C.G. & U.S.C.G.(Aux.) websites; links to the Office of the Chief Director of the United States Coast Guard (Auxiliary); information on the procurement of U.S.C.G. & U.S.C.G.(Aux.) Uniforms; links to NOAA data buoys; Local Notice to Mariners chart update information; Radio Frequencies; links to U.S.C.G.(Aux.) Education & Testing resources and every major U.S.C.G. and U.S.C.G.(Aux.) Manual, Form or Publication which is likely to be of immediate use to our members (in training). Our "Weather" information page contains numerous links to weather and tidal information resources and offers tidal data at more than 35 locations all throughout the Northeast; from Eastport Maine (on the US/Canadian Boarder) to Long Island Sound (NY & CT) in Southern New England. If you would like information on the Coast Guard (Auxiliary's) Public Education Program, or you would like to find out more about a Boating Safety Class taking place near you, please just click on the "Classes" page (above) to view our posted class schedules.  You may also contact our local instructors via our Flotilla's Commander. To quickly obtain a visual appraisal of the weather in Boston Harbor and tidal information for this Historic Port City for the next month, please feel free to make use of these links to Sea Tow Boston's website. Sea Tow Boston: Tide Chart Sea Tow Boston: Movable Camera   What do some of the (above) terms mean? Education Education involves the passing of information from an experienced individual (an instructor) to an inexperienced individual, frequently involving the demonstration of acquired information through the use of specific skills. In the context of the Coast Guard Auxiliary, such "Education" or information sharing takes place through specific instructional classes, following Coast Guard approved instruction in an orderly and methodical manner; the goal of which being, to pass on to the members of the Boating Public, information which the Coast Guard considers invaluable to safe and prudent maritime recreational activities. Public Education Classes are scheduled by the United States Coast Guard (Auxiliary) for the benefit of those members of the Boating Public interested in increasing their level of knowledge and skill sets as relates to basic boating safety, navigation, marlinspike and seamanship and the use of modern marine electronics, such as GPS. We take pride in our efforts to encourage and foster safe recreational boating, and Public Education (undertaken by Coast Guard Auxiliarists) is an integral component of the United States Coast Guard's ongoing effort to reduce the number of boating accidents/fatalities each year. Force Multiplication Force Multiplication as viewed in the context of the United States Coast Guard and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, refers to the increased structural and operational efficiencies which result from the combination of resources and personnel from the Active Duty Coast Guard and the Coast Guard Auxiliary. By selectively assigning roles to specific elements of the United States Coast Guard and United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, optimal personnel management and operational efficiency may be obtained, enhancing the robustness, endurance, reaction-time(s) and ultimate capabilities of the United States Coast Guard to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. Marine Safety Marine Safety includes maintaining America's (marine) resources and protecting them from polluters and those intent on profiting from practices that will render the environment unsuitable to use by others. Marine Safety is a primary concern of the Marine Safety Officers in the United States Coast Guard. Furthermore, Marine Safety encompasses the realm of safe transit of all military, commercial and recreational vessel traffic/activity in the marine environment, and is affected by countless environmental, geographic, legal and at times, geopolitical factors. Would you like more information about the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary? We invite you to visit our national website. Return To Top Contact the Webmaster Page Last Updated 04 January 2012