Practical Boat Handling
Onboard Essentials
- Personal Clothing & Equipment
- Boat Safety Equipment
- Launching and Recovery
General Handling
- Familiarisation & slow speed handling
- Holding off a fixed point
- Approach & Securing to a Mooring Buoy
- Anchoring
- Use of Steering & Hand Bearing Compasses
- Planing speed (inc. trim tabs/power trim)
Marina Manoeuvres
- Turning in a confined area
- Leaving and Coming Alongside
- Use of Springs
Safety & Emergencies
Practical Emergency Drills
- Man Overboard Approach - Drift Down
- Man Overboard Approach - Into Wind
- Recovery of a Man Overboard
Emergency Theory & Response
- Cold Shock and Immersion Hypothermia
- Distress Signals & VHF Mayday Calls
- Disabled Craft Procedures
- Emergency Action to Prevent Sinking
- Fire Precautions & Fire Fighting
- Advice for Restricted Visibility
Theory & Navigation
Know Your Craft & Rules
- Types of Craft & Engines
- GPS / Chart Plotters
- I.R.P.C.S. (Rules of the Road)
- Local Bylaws
Navigation & Planning
- Charts & Important Chart Symbols
- Buoyage Systems (IALA A)
- Pilotage & Passage Planning
- Tides & Tidal Streams
- Weather & Forecasting