RYA Seamanship
Cost per person - £300 (2 or more students) £400 (solo course)
RYA KEELBOAT SEAMANSHIP SKILLS
Part of the advanced syllabus, seamanship skills concerns boat handling skills, in all conditions, and sailing in a seamanship like manner.
Section A - Practical
Ropework
Tie fishermans bend, rolling hitch and sheet bend
Sailing Techniques and Manoeuvres
Can:
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Heave to
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Reef afloat
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Recover man overboard
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Be towed by a power vessel
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Anchor using techniques for different circumstances
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Sail backwards
Section B - Theory
Understands:
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Terminology - windward,leeward, abeam, forward,aft, ahead,astern, to weather, downwind, amidships, quarter, pinching, sailing by the lee, luffing, bear away, planing, sternway, broaching
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Knows and can apply International Regulations for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea - meeting other sailing vessels, meeting power vessels, following or crossing narrow channels, action by stand on vessel.
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Meteorology - know sources of information, can interpret information, aware of changing conditions and fog.
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Keelboat - understand overhead clearance and use of slings. Use and check of slipway