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Which Boat Is For You?
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Boater's language; types of boats; outboard motors and sterndrives; hull
design; uses of boats; other power plants; materials for constructing boats;
your intended use; marine surveyors; buying a boat.
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Equipment For Your Boat
– Legal Requirements for your boat; your boat's equipment; legal considerations;
impaired boating; boating accident reports; Courtesy Marine Examinations.
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Trailering Your Boat
– Legal considerations; practical considerations; the towing vehicle; balancing
the load; handling your trailer; pre-departure checks; preparing to launch;
launching; retrieving; storing your boat and trailer; Aquatic Nuisance Species;
float plans.
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Handling Your Boat
– Safety precautions; fueling your boat; your boat's propeller; twin screws; jet
drives; loading your boat; getting started; leaving a pier; "man" overboard;
docking; mooring to a permanent anchor; anchoring; towing a skier; heavy
weather; small boat safety.
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Your "Waterway" Signs
– Aids to Navigation (ATON); buoyage systems; waterway marks; how waterways are
marked; light characteristics; chart symbols; light structures; lights on
bridges; electronic aids to navigation; navigational reference publications.
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The Rules You Must Follow
– Navigation Rules for preventing collisions; Two sets of rules; to whom do the
rules apply; what is a vessel; the general responsibility rule; general
considerations; conduct in narrow channels; traffic separation schemes; vessel
traffic services; stand-on or give-way; rules for special vessels; risk of
collision; bend signals; restricted visibility; vessel lights and shapes;
vessels at anchor; diving operations; distress signals; drawbridge signals;
penalties.
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Inland Boating
– Types of inland waters; inland navigation; inland seamanship; river currents;
maintaining inland waterways; dams; locks; river charts; commercial traffic;
before you go.
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Boating Safety
– Small boat safety; personal watercraft; hypothermia; motorboats and sailboats;
carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Introduction To Navigation
– Piloting tools; maps and charts; chart features; your chart's general
information block; other charted information; your magnetic compass;
position on the earth's surface; locating a point on a chart; distance
on the earth's surface; measuring distance; course plotting; sources of
compass error; correcting a compass reading; positioning;
speed-time-distance; dead reckoning.
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Powering Your Boat
– Types of marine engines; marine engines; selecting a propeller; induction
systems; ignition systems; flame arresters; cooling systems; gasoline
considerations; batteries; maintenance; winterizing your boat; spring
fitting-out; troubleshooting.
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Lines & Knots For Your Boat
– Line or rope; rope materials; kinds of rope; measuring rope; selecting your
ropes; care of rope; making up line; knots, bends, and hitches; splices;
securing lines; dipping the eye.
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Weather & Boating
– Sources of weather information; wind and boating; wind and waves;
understanding weather; weather and heat; fog; non-frontal weather.
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Your Boat's
Radio
– Radios used on boats; functions of radios; licenses; selecting your
VHF-FM radio; installation; operating your VHF-FM; maintain a radio
watch; channels have special purposes; some "no no's"; copies of the
rules; calling another station; procedure words; phonetic alphabet;
routine radio check; distress, urgency, and safety calls; crew training.
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What is navigation
– The steps of navigation and piloting without electronics
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Fundamentals of waypoint navigation
– Practice using a sample cruise exercise, GPS, avoiding hazards, and using
landmarks
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The tools of navigation
– Use of nautical charts including scales, chart symbols, ATON, plotting tools,
GPS, compass, and other electronics
