Course Content
Practical Skills/Boat handling under power
- Main manners, Customs and etiquette
- Safety check: equipment, hull engine
- Electronic Instruments:
- VHF & GPS
- Effects of tides, currents, wind
- Practical rope work, docking lines
- Reading charts & steering by compass
- Anchoring
- Man over board
- Picking up mooring buoy
- Rules in harbor area
- U-turn
- Coming alongside (Wharf and Dock)
- Clearing (Wharf and Dock)
Certification
Certification of Competency on Small Boat Handling & Communication for Vessels up to 25m. including Radio Operation to cover GMDSS Sea Area A1 only (VHF)
- Examination Required
Requirements
- Boat Experience
Target audiences
- Boat Drivers
