Waterfront Training Facility

The Waterfront Training Facility provides practical experience aboard the College vessels. The area includes two buildings, 200 metres of wharf frontage, and 30 metres of floating wharves.

The Walter E. Foster Building is a large boat shed and repair shop that houses many of the College's vessels when not in use. It is equipped with a 16-ton overhead crane that manoeuvres the larger boats to the building for repairs. The Waterfront Training Facility accomodates rapproximately 45 boats of various types including sailboats, fast rescue craft, workboats, barges, whalers, and a variety of outboard motor driven smaller vessels.

The George L. Hopkins Building is equipped with classrooms and instructors' offices. Navigation Officer Cadets do much of their practical training at this site, from boat handling to knot tying and sail repair. Officer Cadets occasionally participate in training exercises in the Cabot Strait and Bras D'or Lakes.