Sailing and Boating Basics ON DEMAND

Sailing & Boating Basics ON DEMAND

Thinking about getting a boat? Decided to get a boat? Now what do I need to know to stay safe, and have fun on the water. Understanding all the in's and out's will assist you in accelerating and making the most out of your boating experience.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome and Hello from Captain Deb
2. Lesson Welcome, Introduction and Mission
3. Lesson 1 - Watercrafts defined
4. Lesson 2 - Language and Terminology
5. Lesson 3 Distinguishing Factors
6. Lesson 4 Launching Your Boat and Boat Ramps
7. Lesson 4 A Launching a Boat from a Trailer
8. Lesson 5 Travel Lifts and Boat yards
9. Lesson 5a - Parts you work with in the yard
10. Lesson 5b - Video Haul out at the Boatyard
11. Lesson 6 Marinas
12. Lesson 6a - Marinas fixed docks
13. Lesson 7 Yacht Clubs
14. Lesson 8: Wet Slips
15. Lesson 6A-1 - Marina Etiquette Checklist
16. Lesson 6B - Leaving the Dock Checklist
17. Lesson 6C 1 - Glossary (Marine Terminology ) A - L
18. Lesson 6C 2 - Glossary (Marine Terminology) M-Z
19. Quiz Chapter 1
1. Lesson 1 What is a Mooring?
2. Lesson 1 A Mooring Ball
3. Lesson 2 - Picking up a Mooring Ball
4. Lesson 3 Boat hooks your tool to pick up the pendant
5. Lesson - Picking Up a mooring ball video
1. Lesson 1 Anchors
2. Lesson 1 Anchor Types
3. Lesson 2 - Anchor chain and the Windlass
4. Lesson 3 Anchor Accessories
5. Lesson 4 Steps to Anchoring
6. Lesson 5 Video of Anchoring
1. Lesson What is a Cleat Hitch
2. Lesson 5A - Video of how to tie a cleat hitch
1. Lesson 1 Steps for Docking
2. Lesson 2 Video Steps to Docking your boat and Leaving the Slip
3. Quiz 2 Moorings, Anchors and Cleat Hitch
1. Lesson 1 Safety Statistics What You Should Know
2. Lesson 2 The Rules on PFD's
3. Lesson 3 Personal Flotation Devices
4. Lesson 4 BOAT US PFD Loaner Program
5. Quiz 3 Safety and other
6. Lesson 3A How to choose the right Personal Flotation Device
1. Lesson 1 - Blueprint of a Sailboat versus a Power Boat
1. Lesson 1 Chart Plotter, AIS, Compass and AutoHelm
2. Lesson 2 Communications and Safety Equipment
3. Lesson 3 VHF and Radar
4. Lesson 4 Guages
5. Calculating Fuel Consumption
1. Lesson 1 Different Sailboats
2. Lesson 2 Types of sailboats by hull, keel, rudder, mast
3. Lesson 3 - Types of sailboats with definitions
4. Lesson 4 - Catamarans
5. Quiz 4 Equipment, instruments and sailing boats
1. Lesson 1 Cruiser Class Power Boats
2. Lesson 2 Recreational Class PB
1. Lesson 2 - Sound signals, rules you should know about...
2. Lesson 3 On the Seas at night
3. Lesson 1 The possibilities of vessels that you can encounter in ports and waterways
4. Quiz 5 Cruiser Class Power Boats and Commercial Vessels and Night lights
1. Lesson 1 Helm, Bow Sprit, Hatches & Port Lights
1. Lesson 1 - What does this flag tell you?
2. Lesson 2 Top Three Rules of the Road
3. Lesson 3 Right of Way - Head On
4. Lesson 4 Right of Way - Crossing Situation
5. Lesson 5 Right of Way - Over Taking
1. Lesson 1 - Markers, buoys
2. Lesson 2 USCG ATON
3. Lesson 3 - Restricted and Safety Markers
4. Lesson - Download your USCG Aid to Navigation
5. Quiz 6 Safety Rules, System of Markers, buoys and Right of way, Language & Terminology
6. Lesson - Download your USCG Aid to Navigation
1. Lesson 1 Man OverBoard
1. Lesson 1 Compass
2. Lesson 2 Charts
3. Lesson 3 Charts to Plotters - Electronic Mapping Software
4. Quiz 7 Man OverBoard, Navigating on a Boat
1. Lesson 1 - VHF Handheld versus mounted
2. Lesson 2 - Understanding your VHF
3. Lesson 3 - VHF: Types of Calls
4. Lesson 4 - VHF - Using Your Radio - How to hail a vessel
5. Lesson 5 - Observing proper VHF Etiquette
6. Lesson VHF Usage Etiquette Download
7. Quiz 8 VHF Radio
1. Lesson 1 Boat Systems
2. Lesson 2 Electricity
3. Lesson 3 Batteries
4. Lesson 4 Solar on a Boat
5. Lesson 5 Wind Turbines
6. Lesson 6 Cooking on a boat (Gas, Alcohol, Induction)
7. Lesson 7 RO Watermaker
8. Lesson 8 Water System - Galley and Sanitation
9. Lesson 9 Fuel System
10. Quiz 9 Boat Systems
1. Lesson 1 Dinghy & Tenders
2. Lesson 2 Dinghy Motors
3. Lesson 3 Dinghy Chaps
4. Lesson 4 Super Yacht Tender and Dinghy
5. Lesson 4 Davits
1. Lesson 1 Try Before You Buy
2. Lesson 2 Parties involved when buying a boat
3. Lesson 3 Surveyors who do they work for and what you need to know
4. Lesson 1A - Navigating Buying a Boat (eBook)
5. Quiz 10 Dinghy/Tenders, Davits and Buying a Boat
1. Lesson 1 Common Mistakes
1. Lesson 1 Insurance
1. Lesson 1 Bought the Boat Now What
2. Quiz 11 Common Mistakes / Insurance/ Misc
1. Lesson 1 Diagram of a Sailboat
2. Lesson 2 Points of Sail
3. Lesson 3 Beaufort Chart of Wind and Waves
4. Lesson 4 Safety PFD Options
5. Lesson 5 Safety Life Raft Options
6. Lesson 6 Ditch Bag and Your List of what should be in it!
7. Lesson 6A - Ditch Bag Content List
8. Lesson 7 Basics of Docking
9. Lesson 7 Basics of Docking Video Review
10. Lesson 8 Basic Maneuvering
11. Lesson 9 Sailing - what I wish someone would have told me...
12. Resource Guide of Books, Apps, FB Groups and Vendors

About this course

$199.00
118 lessons
0.5 hours of video content

Learn the basics so you can have great experiences on the water!

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Sailing & Boating Basics ON DEMAND

Course curriculum

Chapter 1 Introduction, Mission

Chapter 2 - Moorings

Chapter 3 - Anchors and Anchoring

Chapter 4 Cleat Hitch

Chapter 5 Docking

Chapter 6 - Safety

Chapter 7 - Blueprint

Chapter 8 Equipment & Instruments on Boats

Chapter 9 - Sailing vessels

Chapter 10 - Cruiser Class Power Boats

Chapter 11 Commercial Vessels, night lights and Sound Signals

Chapter 12 Language and Terminology

Chapter 13 Safety

Chapter 14 The System of Markers, buoys, right of way

Chapter 15 "Man Overboard"

Chapter 16 Navigating on a Boat

Chapter 17 VHF

Chapter 18 Sailing and Boating Basics Boat Systems

Chapter 19 Dinghy & Tenders

Chapter 20 Buying A Boat

Chapter 21 Common Mistakes

Chapter 22 Insurance

Chapter 23 Bought the Boat Now What?

Chapter 24 Basics of Sailing and Cruising

About this course

Learn the basics so you can have great experiences on the water!