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Overview
There is extensive coverage for leisure and professional yachtsmen, including:
- key information for all required courses at all levels from STCW crew basic training through RYA Yachtmaster™ Offshore to MCA Officer of the Watch (Yacht)
- comprehensive treatment of safety, sea survival, first aid, fire fighting, navigation, seamanship, meteorology, marine radio, and general ship knowledge
- additional section on marine law, including international and flag state requirements
- easy guide to the Collision Regulations, as well as their full text
Well-illustrated and user-friendly, this is the complete reference for all those involved with private or commercial yachts worldwide.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472917768 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
| Publication date: | 09/29/2015 |
| Pages: | 408 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.20(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction 9
Part 1 Safety: STCW Basic training
1 Basic sea survival 11
Training for emergencies
Survival priorities
Survival equipment
Abandoning ship
Man overboard (MOB)
2 Elementary first aid 26
Resuscitating a casualty
Further treatment
Handling the casualty
Record keeping
Survival craft medicine
3 Basic firefighting 37
Fire essentials
Fire classification
Fire spread
Firefighting equipment
Breathing apparatus
4 Personal responsibilities 47
Emergency procedures
Marine pollution
Safe working
Working procedures
Risk assessment
Communication and human relations
Offensive behaviour
Drugs
5 Advanced sea survival 55
Legislation
Emergencies, procedures and drills
Man overboard procedure
Survival craft
Helicopter rescue
Casualty transfers
Distress signals and rescue communications
Rescue boats
Part 2 Navigation: Yachtmaster™ Offshore 75
6 Charts and publications 75
Latitude and longitude
Projections
Charts
Chart publishers
Datums and accuracy
Chart corrections
7 The magnetic compass 91
Magnetic fields
Earth's magnetism
The compass
Compass adjustment
Fluxgate compass
8 Tides and tidal streams 103
Causes of tides
Measuring tide
Tide tables and predictions
Fall of tide
The rule of twelfths
Tidal streams
9 Lights and buoys 119
Lights
Buoys
10 Logs and echo sounders 128
The deck log
Distance logs
Echo sounders
11 Estimated position and position fixing 137
Symbols
Estimated position (EP)
Position fixing
12 GPS and chart plotters 144
GNSS
Navstar GPS
GPS errors
Chart plotters
Raster and vector charting
GPS/plotter functions and use
13 Course to steer 157
Crossing a tideway
Finding the course to steer
Time and distance calculations
Ground track over multiple tidal hours
14 Pilotage and passage planning 161
Pilotage
Passage planning
15 Notes on the Collision Regulations 169
Legal status
The Regulations
Part A General
Part B Steering and sailing rules
Part C Lights and shapes
Part D Sound and light signals
Distress
16 Skippering, safety and seamanship 183
Skippering
Safety precautions
Heavy weather
Navigation in restricted visibility
Seamanship
Anchors and anchoring
Part 3 Meteorology: Yachtmaster™ Offshore, OOW GSK 195
17 Global weather 195
The weather environment
Weather mechanisms
Global weather model
Seasonal global weather patterns
18 Temperate weather 209
The temperate zone
Formation of a low
Passage of a low
Occlusions, troughs, ridges and cols
Clouds
19 Tropical weather 218
Overview
Tropical revolving storms
Avoiding tropical storms
Local tropical weather
20 Local weather 229
Fog
Sea breezes
Other land effects
Local winds at sea
21 Weather forecasts 236
Barometers
Weather forecasts
The Beaufort wind scale
Weather routeing
Part 4 Marine Radio: ROC, GOC 245
22 GMDSS 245
System infrastructure
Equipment
Sea areas and required equipment
23 Radio - general 248
Radio propagation
Radio modulation
Essential data
Routine procedures
24 Radio - emergencies 253
Radio Distress working
Radio Urgency and Safety working
Inmarsat emergency procedures
Part 5 Advanced Navigation: OOW Nav & Radar 259
25 Sextant angles 259
The sextant
Vertical sextant angle
Horizontal angles
26 Gyrocompass and GPS compass 264
The gyrocompass
GPS compass
27 Electronic navigation aids 268
Loran C
Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS)
Automatic Identification System (AIS)
28 Radar 279
How radar works
Radar beam-characteristics
Display formats
Display adjustments
Setting up a radar
Echoes and false echoes
Navigating with radar
Radar plotting
Automatic Radar Plotting Aid (ARPA)
Part 6 General Ship Knowledge: OOW GSK 305
29 Ship construction 305
Standard measures
Stresses in ships
Yacht construction methods
Corrosion
Classification societies
Load lines
Bilge pump systems
30 Stability 325
Density
Displacement
Initial stability
Heeled stability
Suspended weights
Free surface effect
Loll and list
31 Further seamanship 337
Legislation
Navigational watch-keeping
Pilots
Preparing for sea
Deck work
Maintaining cordage
International signals
Part 7 Regulation: Background for Oral Exams 347
32 Marine law 347
Legal principles
International law
Salvage
United Kingdom law
Contract law
33 International regulations 353
SOLAS - Safety of Life at Sea
ISM
ISPS
STCW
MARPOL
Tonnage
Load line
SAR
De-ratting
International certificates
34 UK regulations 362
Vessel specific regulations
Employment law
Official logbooks
Health and Safety
Safe working practices
References
35 Seagoing qualifications 367
Career path
Appendices 369
1 International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972 369
2 Signals 391
3 Glossary and Abbreviations 393
4 Useful addresses 396
Index 397