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Coastal
Skipper Practical Syllabus
The aim of this course is to teach
the skills and techniques required to skipper a
cruising yacht safely on coastal passages by day and
night.
- Can plan a coastal passage including a
consideration of the capability of the yacht,
navigation, victualling, weather, ports of
refuge, tidal heights, and tidal streams,
publications required and strategy
- Know Customs procedures
- Is aware of safety equipment required for
offshore passages
- Can prepare a yacht for sea including stowage,
safety briefing, watch keeping, delegating
responsibilities and equipment and engine checks
- Can prepare a pilotage plan, with
consideration of surroundings, transits,
clearing bearings, buoyage, port or harbour
regulations and tidal considerationsb. Can pilot
a yacht by day and night
- 4. Passage making and ability as
skipper
- Can take charge of a yacht and direct the crew
- Can organise the navigation, deckwork, and
domestic duties of a yacht on passage
- Is aware of the significance of meteorological
trends
- Is aware of crew welfare on passage
- Can use electronic navigational equipment for
planning and undertaking a passage, including
the use of waypoints and routes
- 5. Yacht handling under power
- Can control the yacht effectively in a
confined space under power
- All berthing and unberthing situations in
various conditions of wind and tide
- 6. Yacht handling under sail
- Characteristics
- Can use the sails to control the yacht in a
confined space
- Anchoring and mooring in various conditions of
wind and tide
- Can sail efficiently on all points of sailing
- 7. Adverse weather conditions
- Preparation for heavy weather and yacht
handling in strong winds
- Navigation and general conduct in restricted
visibility
- Recovery of man overboard under power and sail
- Understands action to be taken when abandoning
to the liferaft and during helicopter and
lifeboat rescues
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