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Pre-course experience
None
Assumed Knowledge
None
Course content
Basic seamanship and helmsmanship
Ability after course
By the end of the course you should be able to steer, handle sails, keep a lookout, row a dinghy and assist in all the day to day routines.
Minimum duration
5 days, but often run over 3 weekends or 3 days plus a weekend. If you have previously completed the Start Yachting course, the Competent Crew course can be completed in 3 or 4 days.
This course is for beginners and those who would like to become active crew members rather than just passengers. You will spend 5 days crusing the unspoilt Irish coast stopping at various ports along the way. The course is available year round and begins on a Sunday evening and runs until Friday afternoon By the end of the course you should be able to steer, handle sails, keep a lookout, row a dinghy and assist in all the day to day routines. Cost: 5 Days - €699 or 3 Weekends - 6 days €775 (Off Peak) €875 (Peak June - Sept) includes: Food Onboard, Use of Waterproofs, Marina Fees & Fuel The Competent Crew course introduces the complete beginner to cruising and teaches personal safety, seamanship and helmsmanship to the level required to be a useful member of crew of a cruising yacht. Competent Crew Syllabus - 1. Knowledge of sea terms and parts of a boat, her rigging and sails
- Sufficient knowledge to understand orders given concerning the sailing and day to day running of the boat.
- Bending on, setting, reefing and handling of sails
- Use of sheets and halyards and their associated winches
- Handling ropes, including coiling, stowing, securing to cleats and single and double bollards
- Handling warps
- Ability to tie the following knots and to know their correct use: figure-of-eight, clove hitch, rolling hitch, bowline, round turn and two half hitches, single and double sheet bend, reef knot
- 4. Fire precautions and fighting
- Awareness of the hazards of fire and the precautions necessary to prevent fireb. Knowledge of the action to be taken in the event of fire
- 5. Personal safety equipment
- Understands and complies with rules for the wearing of safety harnesses, lifejackets and personal buoyancy aids
- Understands the action to be taken to recover a man overboard
- Can operate distress flares and knows when they should be used
- Understands how to launch and board a liferaft
- Understands accepted practice with regard to: use of burgees and ensigns, prevention of unnecessary noise or disturbance in harbour including courtesies to other craft berthed
- Aware of the responsibility of yacht skippers to protect the environment
- Is able to keep and efficient lookout at sea
- Understands and complies with the loading rulesb. Is able to handle a dinghy under oars
- Awareness of forecasting services and knowledge of the Beaufort scale
- Working efficiency is unaffected/partially affected/severely affected by seasickness
- 13. Helmsmanship and sailing
- Understands the basic principles of sailing and can steer and trim sails on all points of sailing
- Can steer a compass course, under sail and power
- Has carried out general duties satisfactorily on deck and below decks in connection with the daily routine of the vessel
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