HMCS "Prevost" has other roles in the boating community of Southwestern Ontario. It currently serves as the teaching home of "London Power and Sail Squadron", a unit of Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons, a volunteer organization teaching safe boating to the general public. LPS teaches courses on Basic Boating, Seamanship, Advanced Piloting and Celestial Navigation, along with a number of elective courses such as Navigating With GPS, Electronic Charting, Fundamentals of Weather, Radar for Pleasurecraft, and other courses on sailing theory, maintenance of pleasurecraft, etc. CPS has the mandate from Industry Canada to offer courses and examine candidates for the Restricted Operator's Certificate (Maritime) which is required to operate marine VHF on pleasure craft in Canada.