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Shreveport Sail & Power Squadron

9809 East Chase Circle

Shreveport, LA 71118

To contact us:

Phone: (318) 797-5828

E-mail: Webmaster

Martha Watson Smith

mwatson@rcsnetworking.net

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Boating Education

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Text Box: We are actively recruiting new members to join us for boating fun and education! For membership information, please contact D.J. Mills at 318-349-7581. You must pass a test covering the material in the Boating Safety Course offered by the Shreveport Sail & Power Squadron in order to be eligible to join. Instruction materials are available in textbook or CD-Rom format. Free classes are offered three times per year.

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Text Box: Benefits of Membership include: · Taking boat trips with other boat owners · Practicing safe power boat operation · Learning through nautical education courses · Having fun, fun, fun · Meeting people with similar interests History of the Shreveport Sail & Power Squadron In 1963 cruising clubs were popular in the Shreveport area. One of these clubs was the Dixie Cruising Association, Inc. The members were skillful in operating their boats but craved more formal education on seamanship, navigation, and proper equipment. In April 1965, members of the Lake Charles Power Squadron traveled 200 miles north to begin teaching an accelerated piloting class to these Shreveport cruisers. Graduates of this class then became the Shreveport Division of the LCPS and as such, began enthusiastically teaching boating classes in Shreveport. In the meantime application was made to USPS for a charter. On May 15, 1966, the charter was granted to the 25 members of SPS. Two of the charter members are still active in SPS: P/C Claude McCrocklin, N, and P/C Edward J. Kozak, JN. Prior to 1986, USPS/SPS membership was open only to men. Today SSPS has 100 active members, men and women, who continue the traditions of the USPS public boating education, self-education, and boating camaraderie. SSPS is known in District 21 as the ‘cruising squadron’ for the thousands of miles they cruise each year on area lakes, rivers, bayous, and Gulf of Mexico.