MONDAY
- 0900 Arrive at classroom and check in
- Welcome and issue of wet weather gear
- Board the motorboat and stow away personal kit and receive a brief tour around the boat
Instructor's safety briefing covering where and how to use all onboard safety equipment
Explanation of lifejackets including how and when they are used. Tour of outside deck including training on how to move around safely and basic line handling procedures
Talk through of pre departure checks including engine checks and the spares that should be carried
Engine start procedures
Slip mooring and motor down the river with each student having the chance to take the helm.
Practice coming alongside and leaving various pontoons with everyone rotating jobs and having the chance to practice in a variety of situations
Short motor to an anchorage or mooring buoy giving everyone the chance to get used to handling the boat and refresh those basic skills
- 1300 Lunch at a mooring buoy or anchorage. Discuss the use of liferafts and how to handle emergencies such as flooding, fire and collision
First skipper of the day will plan a short passage taking into account weather, tide and pilotage information from charts and almanacs
The instructor will demonstrate MOB procedures on route. Each student will get a chance to practice this manoeuvre
- 1830 Arrive at evening destination
- 1900 Debrief on days events
Prepare cross channel passage plans as requested by the examiner
- 2000 Go ashore for dinner
TUESDAY
- 0800 Showers at marina facilities, breakfast, clean up and get weather forecast
- Complete pre departure checks including engine checks
- 0930 The first skipper will plan a trip to an anchorage for lunch. On route each crew member will practice MOB. The instructor will recap the procedure for deciding a good anchorage ad working out the heights of tide
Prepare to enter anchorage. The designated skipper will organise the foredeck crew to prepare the anchor and chain in anticipation of arrival
- 1400 Lunch at anchor
2nd Skipper of the day plans a trip to an evening destination that involves a cross tide course and entry into a shallow harbour
Get under way for evening destination revising the collision regulations on route. The instructor will explain the procedure for handling navigation in restricted visibility followed by a simulated exercise to find a buoy in fog
- 1730 Arrive at evening destination
Debrief days evens
Each candidate will plan a leg of a night sail that will involve entries or departures from harbours or finding unlit marks as a navigational exercise
- 1800 Go ashore for dinner
- 1930 Depart for night sail
- 0100 Arrive at destination
WEDNESDAY
- 0900 Showers at marina facilities, breakfast, clean up and get weather forecast
- Complete pre departure checks including engine checks
- Carry out some more manoeuvring using pontoons and mooring buoys
The instructor will demonstrate how to motor onto a mooring buoy against tide followed by each student having the opportunity to have a go
- 1200 Lunch at a nearby mooring buoy
- 1300 1st Skipper of the day will plan a short trip to the evening destination. On route the instructor will demonstrate the use of electronic navigational aids such as GPS and Chartplotters. Each student will practice using waypoints.
Discussion on route about crew management and skippering techniques
Each student practices MON on route
- 1700 Arrive at destination and learn how to secure to a town wall. General discussion about etiquette when rafting
- 1730 Go ashore for dinner
- 1900 Depart for night sail exercises in central Solent area which will give each candidate the chance to enter or leave a harbour or find an unlit mark
- 2230 Arrive at evening destination
THURSDAY
- 0700 Showers at marina facilities, breakfast, clean up and get weather forecast
- Complete pre departure checks including engine checks
- 0800 Practice pile moorings in harbour
- 0930 Practice motoring on to and off pontoons.
- 1115 1st Skipper of the day plans a short trip to lunchtime anchorage
- 1130 Get under way for lunch time destination practicing MOB on route.
- 1400 Arrive at lunchtime destination
The instructor will demonstrate how to motor onto a mooring buoy in an against tide situation followed by each student having the chance to practice.
- 1500 2nd Skipper of the day plans a passage to night time destination
Depart for evening destination with discussion on route about weather and the factors that affect boat stability
- 1900 Arrive at evening destination
Debrief the day events
- 1930 Go ashore for dinner
Friday
- 0800 Showers at marina facilities, breakfast, clean up and get weather forecast
- Complete pre departure checks including engine checks
- 1000 Motor back to Hamble practicing all aspects
- 1200 Early lunch on mooring buoy
- 1300 Leave mooring buoy and practice return to the fender sailing exercise
- 1430 Arrive back at Hamble
Clean up boat followed by debrief and preparation of application forms in readiness for examiners arrival
Finish pre-prepared passage plans for examiner
- 1830 Examiner arrives
*All itineraries are examples and do not form any part of the contract
