12/08/2021
Essential Navigation & Seamanship
A 16 hour, two day course in basic coastal navigation
4th & 5th September 2021
£100 per person
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Cambridge School of Navigation
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Shore-based navigation for Essential Navigation and Seamanship, Day Skipper and Yachtmaster. Inlan
12/08/2021
Essential Navigation and Seamanship.
A new class on 22nd & 23rd May.
cambridgeschoolofnavigation.co.uk
It used to be called Essential Navigation & Safety, which I thought very appropriate for an introduction to navigation & safety (!). Not sure where the Seamanship comes from.
There might be some Sea Cadets on the course. To them, Seamanship means Ropework. How to use knots, which ropes to use, when. Making your own ditty bag. I have no idea how that became Seamanship.
To me, Seamanship means handling a boat in a seaway or a storm.
But this is a theory course and there will be no seamanship of either kind.
It'll be charts, navigation, tides, weather, IRPCS, buoyage, GNSS.
The useful starting stuff.
27/04/2021
Another glorious day on the river!
It started cold, and I wondered if a thick shirt, jumper and oilskin jacket would be enough. (I confess, I also wore a vest).
By 10 o'clock the clouds had gone and the sun was warm.
Julie and Jamie are a delightful, hospitable couple with a new-to-them Falcon 27.
They very quickly mastered the helm controls, turning in the river like professionals. They learned to moor the boat, hooking on the stern quarter first, without leaving the boat, and then springing with the engine while they hooked on the bow line.
Reversing into tight spaces, with the bow thruster, was a doddle.
They had such a good day that they asked me back for another session early next month!
Elizabeth, Thorsten and I spent a very satisfying day talking about passage planning, pilotage and the effect of a side wind on a small fast planing power-boat.
They knew more than I did about the weather conditions on the Southern coast of France, and I was glad that they were able to put together a decent pilotage plan for their forthcoming trip along the coast.
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