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Day
Skipper Practical Syllabus
The Day Skipper course teaches
pilotage, navigation, seamanship and boat handling
up to the required standard to skipper a small
cruising yacht safely by day in tidal waters with
which the student is familiar.
- Is able to prepare a yacht for sea, including
engine checks, selection of sails, securing and
stowage of all gear on deck and below
- Can reef, shake out reefs and change sails to
suit prevailing conditions
- Can prepare an anchor, mooring warps and take
charge on deck when mooring alongside, coming to
a buoy, anchoring, weighing anchor and slipping
from a buoy or alongside berth
- 3. Navigation
Is proficient in chartwork and routine
navigational duties on passage including:
- Taking and plotting visual fixes
- Use of electronic navigation equipment for
position fixing
- Use of waypoints
- Working up to DR and EP
- Estimating tidal heights and tidal streams
- Working out course to steer to allow for tidal
stream, leeway and drift
- Knowledge of IALA buoyage
- Maintenance of navigational records
- Use of echo sounder and lead line
- Can prepare and execute a pilotage plan for
entry into, or departure from, harbour
- Understands the use of leading and clearing
lines
- Use of transits and surroundings as aids to
pilotage
- Knows sources of forecast information
- Can interpret shipping forecasts and use a
barometer as a forecasting aid
- Has a working knowledge of the International
Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
- 7. Maintenance and repair work
- Understands and is able to carry out
maintenance tasks
- Knows the properties and uses of common
synthetic fibre ropes
- Knows how to change fuel and water filters,
pump impeller and to bleed the fuel system
- Understands how to victual a yacht
- Is able to take correct action as skipper for
recovery of man overboard
- Understands distress flares and how to use a
liferaft
- Can operate a radiotelephone in an emergency
and send a distress message
- Understands how to secure a tow
- Understands rescue procedures including
helicopter rescue
- 11. Yacht handling under power
- Can bring a boat safely to and from an
alongside berth, mooring buoy and anchor under
various conditions of wind and tide
- Can steer and trim sails effectively on all
points of sailing
- Can plan and make a coastal passage, taking
account of relevant navigational hazards and
limitations imposed by the type of boat and the
strength of the crew
- Has experienced sail cruising at night,
including leaving and entering harbour.
Understands the special consideration for
pilotage plans, keeping a lookout and
identifying marks by night.
- Working efficiency is unaffected/partially
affected/severely affected by seasickness
- 15. Helmsmanship and sailing
- Understands the basic principles of sailing
and can steer and trim sails on all points of
sailing
- Can steer a compass course, under sail and
power
- Has carried out general duties satisfactorily
on deck and below decks in connection with the
daily routine of the vessel
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