RYA Start Motor Cruising

1. Personal Safety

• The difference between manual and auto-inflating life jackets

• The importance of crotch straps

• Appropriate clothing

• Cold shock

• Correct fitting of a life jacket

2. Seamanship

• Importance of stowage

• Keeping lookout

3. Emergency Situations

• Problem that can happen at sea

• Your role in an emergency

• How to raise the alarm

• How to prevent a man overboard

• Safety procedures

• Deployment of anchor

• Locate lifesaving appliances and first aid kit

• Rad a position from GNSS

• Use a boat hook

4. Coming Alongside/Picking up a Mooring

• Knows what the manoeuvre entails

• Preparation of mooring lines

• Communication with the helm

• Attaching fenders

• Coiling lines

• Throwing mooring lines

• Attaching a line to a cleat

5. Boat Handling 

• Communication

• Starting and stopping the engine

• Steer and control boat speed

• Picking up a mooring

Minimum age: 8

• 1 day use of our Nelson 42, Millbrook (2 days if it runs as part of a Helmsman Course)

• Diesel and berthing fees

• Overnight accommodation, if required

• Lunch and snacks on board

• Use of a lifejacket for the course

• Notepad and pen

• Soft soled shoes

• Wet weather gear (contact us if you haven't got any)

• Light wellies or waterproof shoes