SECTION A: COURSE
REQUIREMENTS
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Minimum sea time (within 10 years of exam): 50 days (5 as skipper), 2,500 miles,
5 passages over 60 miles including 2 overnight and 2 as skipper.
SECTION B: COURSE SYLLABUS
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Passage Planning:
To enable the student to 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.
Knowledge of customs and procedures.
Preparation for sea:
That you are aware of safety equipment required for an offshore passage.
Can prepare a yacht for sea including stowage, safety briefing, watch keeping,
delegating responsibilities and equipment and engine checks.
Pilotage:
Can prepare a pilotage plan with consideration of soundings, transits, clearing
bearings, buoyage, port and harbour regulations and tidal considerations.
Can pilot a yacht by day and by night.
Passage making and ability as skipper:
• To ensure you 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
• Understand the practical use and limitations of electronic navigational
aids including GPS
Yacht handling under power:
That you can control the yacht effectively in a confined space under power.
All berthing and unberthing situations in various conditions of wind and tide.
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