Practical boat training/in darkness

Practical boat training/in darkness

The holder has performed the following:

  • Safety review of the vessel’s safety and emergency equipment (fire extinguisher, fire blanket, bilge pump, leak sealing material, first aid kit, emergency lighting kit, lifeboat, life raft, rescue ladder, life buoy, VHF/DSC, etc.)
  • Review and instruction/demonstration of personal safety equipment (life vest, clothing, mobile phone in waterproof case).
  • Planning and selection of suitable charts for intended passage.
  • Navigating the vessel in channel lit by lights.
  • Identification of lights by their light characteristics as well as identification of floating sea marks by their reflecting marks or light characteristics.
  • Use of sector boundaries (w/r and w/g) when navigating.
  • Demonstration of difficulties with estimating distances in darkness.
  • Use of modern navigational aids (e.g., navigator or similar electronic navigational aid, radar)
  • Position fixing when underway in darkness.
  • Perform the following knots: Clove hitch, round turn and two half hitches, bowline.
  • Participation in mooring and unmooring.