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Description
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As a
CPS
Boating Course graduate, you expect more from your boating
experiences. You plan next year’s season to be better than ever. Our
advanced level courses further your pleasure by strengthening your boating
skills.
The Piloting Course extends the navigation and
vessel-handling techniques introduced in the Boating Course. The course
presents the three aspects of piloting. 1. Navigation and Plotting Skills:
interpretation of charts and chart symbols; the DR plot; bearings; Fixes
and running Fixes; determination of course to steer in a current, and
determining distance off. 2. Seamanship Skills: understanding the hazards
of weather, wind, waves, currents, tides and tidal currents, and how to
deal with them. 3. Boat Capabilities and Performance: hull speed,
stability, rudders and propellers.
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Dead Reckoning and the Log
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Marlinespike Seamanship
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The Magnetic Compass
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Fixed Aids to Navigation
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Floating Aids to Navigation
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Bearings and Fixes
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Relative Bearings
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Distance of an Object by Two
Relative Bearings
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Weather
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Wind, Waves and Current
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Seamanship Skills for Adverse
Weather
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Anchors and Anchoring
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Tides
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Tidal Currents
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Navigating in a Current
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Buoyancy and Stability
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Hull Construction and Shape
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Hull Performance
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Propellers and Propeller
Action
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Rudders and Steering Mechanisms
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Emergencies
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Preparedness and Enjoyment
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Introduction to Electronic Navigation
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Manners and Customs
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