NAVCOMM /TRAWLER / SMALL BOAT TRAINING

1. COLREGS ( International Collision Avoidance Regulations )

• General overview
• General Rules of the road / order of precedence for special vessels
• Lights and Sound signals
• Important other rules
• Passing and overtaking situations / Privileged and Give way vessels

2.  Charts

• Finding the right chart
• Latitude and Longitude
• Basic understanding and reading charts
• distance measurements on a chart
• Chart Number 1
• IALA B   Buoy System in the USA               FYI:   IALA stands for the International Association of Lighthouse Authorities,    now called the  International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities
• Understanding water depths and bottom types for anchoring

3. Navigation

• Understanding the Compass and compass rose on a chart
• True North / Magnetic North Bearings
• Headings variation / deviation
• using basic navigation tools
• Plotting a course
• adjusting for current and drift
• taking fixes / types of fixes

4. Electronic Navigation

• MFD ( Multifunction displays ) and their use
• depth finders
• boat speed on the water and over the ground
• using a chart plotter
• basic operating and reading a RADAR screen
• understanding and utilizing AIS
• MARPA and target acquisition on a RADAR
• determining CPA / TCPA  using various means

5. Communications 

• using VHF radios
• DSC VHF radio calls
• USCG emergency contacts ashore
• Maintaining logs
• crew communications

6.  Boat Handling

• preparation and departing
• on watch and being a lookout
• docking techniques / line handling / fenders
• anchoring
• operation during the day
• operation at night or in low visibility situations

7. SOLAS ( Safety of Life at sea )

• MOB ( Man overboard ) event
• General Safety
• Drills and practice
• safety equipment on board

8. Weather / Passage Planning

• Basic weather and how it affects a passage
• Planning for and Creating a complete passage plan from one port to the next.