Program: 2 hours of Theory and 4 hours of Practice, Navigation License Certificate
Where: Puerto Base, Monte Real Club Yates Bayona
PRACTICAL AGENDA. (4 hours)
Section 1. Safety and checks before going to sea.
• Knowledge and management of safety material.
o Use of the life jacket and recognition of its elements. Importance of its adjustment and placement.
o Hand flares, precautions in their handling and explanation of their use.
o Operation of the fog horn and
o Handling of the heliograph.
o The bilge pump.
o The onboard first aid kit and its contents.
• review of the critical points of the boat
or bottom taps,
or horn,
or rudder stock,
or wickets and
or other openings in the hull.
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• checks prior to departure to sea.
or general condition of the boat,
or bail,
or checking for empty spaces,
or fuel level,
or drinking water,
or charging the batteries.
o Checking the maximum number of people on board
o Checking the validity of security elements.
Section 2. Engines.
• Checks prior to starting the engine:
• absence of explosive atmospheres,
• levels,
• dead center and
• charge the starter battery.
• Overheating alarm
• oil level.
• Engine start and cooling pump operation checks, exhaust smoke color and engine sound
Outboard motors: peculiarities and precautions in their handling.
Jet propulsion: characteristics, trigger throttle and precautions in the pump and nozzle area (possible harm to people).
man overboard systems (automatic stop)
Section 3. Rope.
• Way to make a rope firm in bitts and cleats.
• Adduce
• Leaf fork
• Guide Ace
Section 4. Maneuvers.
• Dock maneuvers,
• docking and undocking.
• Safety speed.
• Precautions before leaving the mooring:
or other vessels,
or obstacles
or ropes in the water.
• Undocking maneuver depending on wind and current.
• Effects of propeller rotation on maneuvering.
• Evolution going forward and backward.
• Ciaboga.
• Evolution curve.
• Safety speed.
• Vision and maneuver angles at breakwater tips and other places without visibility.
• Recognition of mooring points on land.
• Preparation of moorings on board.
• Placement of defenses and precautions when docking.
• Approach to docking.
• Uses of the boat hook.
• Use of moorings: lengths, traverses and sprints.
• Way of tying to cleats, bollards and rings.
• Docking based on wind and current.
Section 5. Funding,
• Anchorage selection factors:
or coat,
or wind,
or current
or holder.
• Sand, mud and gravel anchorages, particularities.
• Chain length depending on the bottom and sea and wind conditions.
• Make the anchoring firm. boza
• Rise.
• Precautions for bathers and divers: When approaching and leaving the anchorage, when starting the engine while at anchor.
Section 6. Safety maneuvers.
• Safety maneuvers
• Identification of the different risks of falling into the sea.
• Procedure in case of man overboard.
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