Basic Seamanship & Small Boat Handling course
8 evenings of 2 hours
This course is designed to turn the novice boat owner into a competent small boat skipper by lectures, instructional films, slides and demonstrations of safety equipment. A Certificate of Proficiency is presented to each candidate. The opportunity to gain a Waterways Boating License is also available at this course.
Subjects include:
- Nautical terms and definitions
- Safety check procedures
- Fire prevention & fighting
- Radio usage
- Rules of the road & lights
- Ropes & knots
- Safety Equipment
- Anchors and anchoring
- Buoyancy & stability
- Weather & tides
- Propeller & rudder action
- Boat handling
- Heavy weather seamanship
- Trailed boats
- Engine care & maintenance
- Elementary navigation
- Resuscitation & First Aid
- Survival in the water
- Distress signals
- Emergency procedures