Bluewater Sailing

Basic Safety and Navigation

This is a starter course, no previous knowledge is assumed, it runs over two days for 16 hours. Based in the True Blue Resort.

The course details:-

•RYA Basic Navigation and Safety

•Grenada Bluewater Sailing

•Course Objectives

•Understand basic Nautical terms

•Charts and publications

•Position plotting and heading

•Position fixing

•Buoyage

•Tides

•Safety

•Course Objectives

•Anchoring

•Electronic Navigation

•Pilotage

•Passage Planning

•Rules of the road

•Weather Forecast

•Nautical Terms

•Nautical Terms

•Charts and publications

•Position Plotting and Heading

•Buoyage

•Cardinals

•Buoyage

•Safe water marks

•Isolated danger marks

•Buoyage

•Port lateral marks

•Starboard lateral marks

•Buoyage

•Preferred channel markers

•To starboard

•Preferred channel markers

•To port

•Buoyage

•Special marks

•Buoyage

•Emergency Wreck Marking Buoy

•Safety

•Tides

•Anchoring

•Electronic Navigation

•Pilotage

•Passage Planning

•Rules of the Road

•Weather forecasts

•Weather area forecasts

•Weather forecasts

•Know your local forecast area

•For the shipping forecast

•Inshore waters

•Weather forecast

•Sources of weather information

•Internet

•Radio SMS or mobile internet

•VHF radio – marine safety information

•WiFi

•Harbour wall notice board

•Television

•Weather forecasts beaufort

•Force 1-3 (wind speed 1-10 knots)

•Weather forecasts beaufort

•Force 3-5 (7-21 Knots waves up to 2.5m)

•Weather forecasts beaufort

•Force 6 and above (waves over 4 metres)

•Weather forecasts-terms

•Gale warning average winds F8 or more

•Strong wind warning F6 to F7

•Imminent within 6 hours

•Soon 6 to 12 hours

•Later more than 12 hours

•Weather forecast - terms

•Visibility

•-good greater than 5 miles

•-moderate 2 miles to 5 miles

•-poor 2 miles to 1000m

•-fog less than 1000m

•Weather forecast
land and sea breezes

•Weather forecast
land and sea breezes