by Safe Skipper | Boat Handling, Crewing skills, Preparation
If you can set an anchor correctly with confidence and know your boat will be safe in a secure anchorage, then you can rest in comfort and will not need to rely on moorings and marinas when cruising. Anchoring is one of the most important boat handling skills. If you...
by Safe Skipper | Boat Handling, Crewing skills, Navigation, Preparation
Colregs Boating Rules Of The Road The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs) are a set of rules designed to prevent collisions between vessels. They are essentially the “rules of the road” for boats. Some key concepts within...
by Stuart Batley | Boat Handling, Communications, Crewing skills, Emergencies, Navigation, Preparation
Picture this: you’re out on a serene lake or cruising along a beautiful coastline in your motor boat, enjoying the wind in your hair and the gentle lapping of the water against your vessel. However, amidst the bliss of boating lies a lurking danger –...
by Simon Jollands | Communications, Crewing skills, Emergencies, Navigation, Preparation
It is one of those sailing facts of life that, however hard you try to avoid it, sooner or later you will most likely find yourself aground. It has happened to me twice. Once when I was on a RYA training vessel near the entrance to Beaulieu River in the Western...
by Simon Jollands | Communications, Crewing skills, Navigation, Preparation
In our previous article we looked at tidal curves and how we can use them to find the time of a specific height of tide. Following on from this we now take a look at how we calculate a height of tide for a specific time. This is not a complex calculation but it helps...