1. SAFETY AND CHECKS BEFORE GOING TO SEA
1.1.- Use of the life jacket and recognition of its elements. Importance of its adjustment and placement.
1.2.- Hand flares, precautions in their handling and explanation of their use.
1.3.- Handling of the fog horn and heliograph.
1.4.- The bilge pump.
1.5.- The onboard first aid kit and its contents.
1.6.- Review of the critical points of the boat: bottom taps, horn, rudder stock, portholes and other openings in the hull.
1.7.- Checks prior to departure to sea: general condition of the boat, bilge, checking of empty spaces, fuel level, drinking water, battery charge.
1.8.- Checking the maximum number of people on board and the validity of the safety elements.
2. ENGINES
2.1.- Outboard motors: peculiarities and precautions in their handling.
2.2.- Checks prior to starting the engine: absence of explosive atmospheres, levels, neutral point and charge of the starting battery.
2.3.- Heating and oil level alarm.
2.4.- Engine start and cooling pump operation checks, exhaust smoke color and engine sound, man overboard systems.
2.5.- Jet propulsion: characteristics, trigger accelerator and precautions in the pump and nozzle area (possible damage to people).
3. CABUYERIA
3.1.- Precautions in the use of ropes.
3.2.- Basic knots: cote, bowline, ballestrinque. Explanation of its uses.
3.3.- Way to make a rope secure in bitts and cleats.
4. MANEUVERS
4.1.- Precautions before leaving the mooring: other boats, obstacles or ropes in the water.
4.2.- Undocking maneuver depending on wind and current.
4.3.- Effects of propeller rotation on the maneuver.
4.4.- Evolution going forward and backward. Ciaboga. Evolution curve.
4.5.- Safety speed. Vision and maneuver angles at breakwater tips and other places without visibility.
4.6.- Recognition of mooring points on land.
4.7.- Preparation of moorings on board.
4.8.- Placement of defenses and precautions when docking.
4.9.- Approach to docking.
4.10.- Uses of the boat hook.
4.11.- Use of mooring lines: lengths, traverses and sprints.
4.12.- How to tie to cleats, bollards and rings.
4.13.- Berthing depending on the wind and current.
5. ANCHORING
5.1.- Anchorage selection factors: shelter, wind, current and anchorage.
5.2.- Sand, mud and gravel anchorages, particularities.
5.3.- Chain length depending on the bottom and sea and wind conditions. Make the anchoring firm. Weigh.
5.4.- Precautions for bathers and divers: When approaching and leaving the anchorage, when starting the engine while anchored.
6. SAFETY MANEUVERS
6.1.- Identification of the different risks of falling into the sea.
6.2.- Procedure in case of man overboard.
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