This course will provide a comprehensive deep dive into the essential seamanship and watchstanding tools and techniques needed to expand your cruising horizons. Course topics include:
- Responses to casualties underway including fire, flooding, and man overboard
- Lessons learned from recent mishaps
- Applying bridge resource management concepts to the cruising vessel
- What electronics we really need for safe watchstanding
- Internal and external communications procedures—how to REALLY talk on the VHF radio
- Digital Selective Calling procedures
- Emergency communications
- Configuring your electronics for collision avoidance
- Essential collision avoidance skills including a focus on the pivotal Navigation Rules of the Road that every boater needs to know, taught in a way that won’t put you to sleep and will serve to create lasting applicability, and debunking the common myths of the Rules
- Bridge opening procedures and do’s and don’t’s
- Anchoring procedures; choosing the correct anchor type; kellets
- Recommended reading for long range cruisers
- And more!
This is a 201/301 level course for intermediate and advanced boaters and assumes the fundamentals of onboard vessel equipment and watchstanding underway are already well established.
