220 GBP (£)
EnquireSchool Estuary Sailing
Location Berkshire, UK
Duration 2 day(s)
Dates Contact for more info
Accommodation None Included
This 2 day course covers boat handling and seamanship in powerboats’
Our superb Ribeye 585 rib and 90hp engine is a great teaching boat.
Course Structure
Practical content balanced with theory this fantastic course discusses:-
• Launch and recovery, sea state, hazards, trailer care, lee shores.
• Boat handling, trim, balance, load capacity, CE plate, effects of loading.
• On water awareness, look out keeping and safety.
• Low and high speed control of vessel.
• Engine checks, boat checks.
• Mooring alongside berth, marina boat handling.
• Approach/secure to mooring buoy.
• Rope work.
• Anchoring.
• Man overboard recovery.
• Pilotage, passage planning.
• Charts, symbols.
• Collision prevention (IRPCS).
• Tides, weather etc.