Your Coastal Skipper learning journey

• Properties of synthetic ropes in common use
• Rope care, selection, and chafe protection

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• Considerations when anchoring
• Characteristics of different anchor types
• Advanced techniques: kedging, tandem anchoring, and Bahamian moor

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• Steering and sailing rules (Rules 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12–19)
• General rules including Rule 2 (Responsibility)
• Rule 19 (Restricted Visibility) in detail
• Navigation lights and day shapes

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• True bearings and courses
• Standard navigational terms
• Latitude and longitude
• The knot

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• Chart symbols and representation of direction and distance
• Chart correction from Notices to Mariners
• Navigational publications in common use
• Admiralty (NP) publications and almanacs for passage making

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• Use of parallel rulers, dividers, and proprietary plotting instruments
• Efficient chart work techniques and labelling conventions

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• Use of hand-bearing compass
• Application of variation
• Deviation, deviation card, and steering compass limitations
• Swinging the compass and deviation card construction

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• Course shaping along a coastal or offshore passage
• Course to steer with tidal stream and leeway
• Multi-hour CTS with changing tidal streams
• Use of waypoints and confirmation by an independent source

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• Tidal diamonds and tidal stream atlases
• Admiralty method for tidal height at standard port
• Corrections for secondary ports (interpolation method)
• Tide tables

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• Lighthouses and beacons
• Light characteristics
• Nominal, geographical, and luminous range
• Rising and dipping distances

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• Shipping forecast terms and Beaufort scale
• Sources of broadcast meteorological information
• Highs, lows, fronts, and sketching weather systems
• Barometer trends and short-range prediction

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• Keeping a navigational record / deck log
• Confirmation of position by independent source
• Use of waypoints on passage
• Meteorological considerations for longer coastal passages

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• Precautions in fog
• Limitations imposed by restricted visibility
• Radar in restricted visibility (basic interpretation and limitations)
• AIS as complement to radar in fog

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• Pilotage plans and harbour entry (including after dark)
• Night pilotage and light sector identification
• Pilotage plan preparation at Coastal Skipper depth
• Use of sailing directions and pilot books

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