Explorers Guide Maritime Academy

Specialties

If You Want To Be a Captain, Explorers Guide Can Make It Happen.

OUPV Captains License, 25−50−100 Masters, Able Seaman, OUPV to 200 Ton Mate, we have the course, classroom or online, to meet your needs.

With a Captain’s License from Explorer’s Guide Maritime Center, you can transform your passion for the water into an exciting on-​the-​water career. Explorer’s Guide Maritime Academy offers USCG captains license courses for all mariners, whether you’re new to the marine trade or a seasoned boater. We understand the adult learner and will work with you so that you successfully understand and complete the course material to get your captains license.

Classroom classes held in Appleton, WI; Green Bay, WI: Milwaukee, WI; Grass Vally, CA; Minneapolis, MN area; or at your location. Our online captain’s license courses are also available for students worldwide.

Our friendly maritime academy staff will assist you with captains license course registration and answer any questions you may have on the different types of licenses, sea service time, license requirements, and course funding.

History

Established in 2004.

Being involved with adult education and boating all my life, we received approval for the National Maritime Center to teach classes with acceptable exams. This way students do not have to travel to the Regional Exam Centers. We enjoy working with people interested in getting their captains license. We help them work through the credentialing process to minimize stress and time lose.

Meet the Business Owner

Capt Gary K.

Business Owner

Gary Kulibert is the founder and lead instructor for Explorer’s Guide, LLC (dba Explorer’s Guide Maritime Academy), based out of Appleton Wisconsin. Information management, curriculum development, outdoor recreation safety, and course instruction have been at the forefront of Gary’s career from the onset. Whether it was teaching boating or trapping safety to youngsters, teaching families to appreciate the beauty of sailing or the stars above, or helping adults reach their full potential in a new career, Gary made sure that each student left his class better informed and better prepared to tackle the subject at hand. His teaching style includes the mantra, «Discuss-​Demonstrate-​Do» and uses audio, visual, and kinetic activities to ensure all students understand the material.

He assisted the U.S. EPA in developing national policies, and worked as a subject expert in the development of an interactive safety program, using technology which proved to be the precursor of the interactive dv