Detailed Course Description:
Preliminaries:
Topside Orientation (Pages 1-8)
- Identify the parts of the boat -
- Running Rigging
- Standing Rigging
- Sails
- Anchor & windlass operation
Below decks Orientation (Pages 21-35)
- Cruising equipment on the boat
- Head
- Ice box
- Water and fuel tanks
- Through-hull fittings
- Electrical panel
- Nav station
- Lights
- Radio
- Auxiliary engine checkout
- Fuel Consumption and planning
- Cooling system
- Fuel system
- Food and beverages (Pages 51-56)
- Stove
- Safe use of stove - solenoid
- Provisioning
- Proper containers
- Storage
- Do's and don'ts of food and alcohol
- Carry out a check of the vessel's gear and equipment in accordance with legal requirements and ASA recommendations (Page 10)
Navigation and Rules of the Road
- Rules of the road (Pages 68-73)
- NRCFSPS
- Stand-on and give-way for two sailing vessels
- The chart (Pages 40-44)
- Basic familiarization
- Chart tools
- Plotting a course
- Speed, time, distance
Making Fast and securing to a dock and mooring/leaving a dock or mooring (Pages 12-16, Page 37-38):
- Use of dock lines
- Spring lines
- Bow line
- Stern line
- Breast line
- Positioning fenders
- Use of spring lines for maneuvering off a dock
- Effects of wind and current
- Use of engine to facilitate departure or docking
Lines and Knots (Pages 38-40):
- Tie within 15 seconds -
- Bowline
- Clove hitch
- Reef knot
- Round turn with half hitches
- Sheet bend
- Rolling hitch
- Trucker's hitch
- Tie within 7 seconds -
- Coiling and stowing lines
Boat Handling Under Power (Pages 12-14, 44-48):
- Starting procedure for diesel auxiliary
- Check oil
- Check fuel
- Check cooling water flow
- Departing
- Assess wind and current
- Prioritize release of dock lines
- Positioning of crew and specific orders
- Use of bow thruster
- Use of engine
- Maneuvering under power
- Approaching a mark and stopping using reverse
- Executing a tight turn
- Approaching alongside a dock (within two feet) without the aid of lines and without the bow passing a given point at any time
- Approaching a Mooring (Page 102):
- Demonstrate a skipper's actions/commands while under power to approach and stop at a mooring
- Use of wind and current to stop the boat
- Information from looking at other boats
Crew Overboard Recovery (Page 73-77):
- Alternative approaches
- Recovery methods
Use of a Dinghy (Page 48):
- Approaching a moored yacht
- Safety procedures when using the outboard
Anchoring (Pages 93-102):
- Anchoring etiquette (Page 85)
- Anchor in water more than 10 feet deep.
- Considering wind and current
- Contour of the anchorage
- Techniques for assessing whether the anchor is holding.
- Different anchoring methods
- Raise anchor with boat ready and get underway.
Boat Handling Under Sail:
Safe winch techniques
Points of sail (Page 17, 65):
- Function as helmsman and crew giving correct commands and responses while demonstrating proper techniques for:
- Close hauled sailing
- Reaching (all three points)
- Running
- Tacking
- Jibing
- Heading up
- Bearing away
- Luffing
- Reducing heel on all points of sail
- Use of tell tales to assess sailing performance
Reefing/heaving to:
- Determining when to reef
- Reduce sail by reefing:
- Heave to and get under way again
Steering (Page 67):
- Sail a specified compass course for 5 minutes without varying more than 10 degrees from the ordered course.
Sailing Knowledge:
- Bareboat Charter Planning (Pages 35-37, 56,77-79):
- Fuel tank capacity
- Factors that affect range
- Water capacity
- Crew minimum daily requirements
- Holding tank capacity
- Operating the marine head
- Dealing with seasickness
- Appropriate clothing
- Menu planning
- First aid kit - minimum contents
- Engine spare parts
- Documents and procedures for international borders
- VHF radio - demonstrate proper use
- Weather (Pages 58-61)
- Sea breeze and land breeze effects
- Conditions and cause of fog
Navigation (Pages 79-85):
Achieve basic familiarity with the electronic navigation equipment
- Knotmeter
- Depthsounder
- Wind speed/direction
- GPS
- Chart plotter
- Autopilot
Use of a chart
- Determine desired course to be sailed and estimate ETA
- Read nautical chart and identify corresponding landmarks and aids to navigation
- Determine depth above or below chart datum using tide tables
- Plot position using navigation aids (fix)
- Plot position using GPS
- Plot position using handbearing compass
- Pilot boat into an unfamiliar anchorage or harbor by day using a nautical chart and tidal information
Problem Solving and Trouble Shooting (Pages 105-117)
- Dragging anchor
- Running aground
- Emergency steering
- Engine failure
- Rigging failure
