The Basics Of Sailing

Learn basics or refresh your skills, get prepaired for exams….

What you'll learn
Course is designed to provide up-to-date, engaging information and instruction about all the vital aspects of sailing.
Students will be able to understand basic knowledge of safety, coastal navigation, tides and currents, aids to navigation, buoyage system, navigation in restricted visibility, meteorology, anchoring, electronic navigation
Requirements
This sailing course is created for begginers, but also can be useful for experienced sailors
It’s fast, simple, and loaded with useful features and valuable information! Plus, it is equipped with a flawless user interface that never gets in the way of your learning or fun.
Description
Sailing the open seas is the ultimate freedom! Wide skies, fresh air, camaraderie, it’s all there for you and our course can help you toget it. This is probably the most complete, interactive, engaging, and fun, sailing course ever made. Imagine an entire interactive, highly organized, library of sailing knowledge at your fingertips whenever you want it!
Created for beginners, intermediate, and advanced sailors - all wrapped up into one..
Course includes more than 300 animations with voice over in English
Lessons are in Full HD quality and covers all the main maritime subjects.

Overview

Section 1: Aids to navigation

Lecture 1 Aids to navigation

Lecture 2 Buoys and beacons

Lecture 3 IALA buoyage system

Lecture 4 Light characteristics

Section 2: Meteorology

Lecture 5 How weather works

Lecture 6 Weather information sources

Lecture 7 Beaufort scale

Lecture 8 Interpreting a weather fax

Lecture 9 Barometer

Section 3: Navigation

Lecture 10 Navigation Basics

Lecture 11 Nautical charts

Lecture 12 Plotting tools

Lecture 13 Magnetic compass

Lecture 14 Shaping a course

Lecture 15 Dead reckoning

Lecture 16 Possition fixing

Lecture 17 Passage plan

Section 4: Anchoring

Lecture 18 Anchoring

Section 5: Safety at sea

Lecture 19 Fire prevention

Lecture 20 Personal floating devices

Lecture 21 Man overboard

Lecture 22 Distress signals

Lecture 23 Liferafts

Lecture 24 Helicopter rescue

Section 6: COLREG

Lecture 25 Navigation lights

Lecture 26 Navigation in restricted visibility

Lecture 27 Sound signals in restricted visibility

Section 7: Tides and currents

Lecture 28 Causes of tides

Lecture 29 Tide heights and chart datums

Lecture 30 Rule of twelfths

Lecture 31 Tides for standart port

Lecture 32 The tidal curve

Lecture 33 Corrections for secondary port

Lecture 34 Tidal streams

Section 8: GMDSS and Electronics

Lecture 35 GMDSS

Lecture 36 Radar

Lecture 37 Echosounder

Lecture 38 GPS

Lecture 39 GMDSS devices

Sailing the open seas is the ultimate freedom! This course can help you get it! It's useful to anyone who is interested in sailing.