DURATION: 2 Days (Not Overnight)​

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DATES:

Training Dates:

• Either:

  • Tue 8:30am - Wed 7:30pm

  • Thu 8:30am - Fri 7:30pm

  • Sat 8:30am - Sun 7:30pm

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topics COVERED:

General Seamanship

• Nautical Terms: Buoys, beacons and lighthouses, emergencies at sea, such as grounding, fire, collision, poor visibility, etc.

• VHR Radio distress calling

• Mechanical and Electrical Equipment

• Knots, anchoring, tides, weather

• Pleasure Craft Regulations

• Singapore Port Regulations

Rules of the Road

• Regulations for preventing collisions at sea

• Look outs, safe speed, steering and sailing rules, stand on vessel, giving way vessel

• Conduct in low visibility, narrow channels, traffic separation schemes, light and shapes, sound and light signals

Practical Boat Handling & Navigation Theory

• Starting procedure: briefing on engine, pre-sailing checks, equipment checks, throttle and steering control, boat handling, man overboard drills, anchoring, berthing drills and unberthing drills, ropework

• Look out and collision avoidance drills

• Familarisation of local waters, expressing positions at sea, compass errors, variation and deviation.

Passage Planning​

• Passage planning, avoiding congested areas, time speed and distance factors, traffic separations scheme, shelters, refueling etc.

Practical Boat Handling

• Fixing and plotting, reinforcing theory lessons, steering and sailing rules, collision avoidance, look out duties, steering and navigating the boat.

Emergencies

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