Skipper Course
Aim: Basic Handling Competence.
Qualification: Course completion certificate.
Modules:
- Preparation & safety equipment
- Knots & rope work
- Engines & controls
- Low speed & high speed handling
- Securing to a buoy
- Leaving & coming alongside
- Man overboard
- Basic safety & rules of the road
Intermediate Skipper Course
Aim: To skipper a launch in familiar waters by day.
Duration: 4 days (or 2 weekends).
Qualification: Course completion certificate.
Prerequisites: None. Recommended 2 days previous experience.
Modules:
- Boat & engine checks
- Safety equipment
- Handling in various conditions of wind & tide
- High speed work, power & trim tabs
- Practical pilotage & navigation
- Use of charts & GPS
- Tidal heights & streams
- Buoys & beacons
- Meteorology
- Rules of the road
Advanced Skipper Course
Aim: To skipper a launch on coastal passages by day and night.
Qualification: Course Completion Certificate.
Duration: 5 days.
Modules:
- Passage planning
- Skipper responsibilities
- Pilotage planning & use by day & night
- Managing the boat & crew
- Weather & navigation
- Effective handling in confined spaces
- Anchoring & mooring
- High speed & open water handling
- Emergency actions & procedures