Sail-Excalibur

1. Nautical terms
* Parts of a sailing yacht
* General terms

2. Ropework
* Synthetic ropes and their use

3. Anchors
* Types of anchors
* Anchoring

4. Safety
* Onboard equipment and storage
* Fire safety and fire fighting procedures
* Personal safety means, harnesses, lifejackets
* VHF distress signals
* Principles of rescue procedures including helicopter rescue operations

5. International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
* Steering and sailing (5,7,8,9,10,12-19)
* Other regulations

6. Defining position, bearing and speed
* Latitude and longitude
* Standard navigational terms
* True course and bearing
* understanding speed in knots

7. Charts and publications
* Information about charts, symbols, distance and direction projections
* Generally used navigational publications
* Chart corrections

8. Navigational tools
* Plotters, parallel rules, dividers

9. Compass
* Variation
* Deviation
* Using a handbearing compass

10. Chart projections
* Estimated position, leeway
* Plotting position lines
* GPS
* Compass heading, magnetic heading and true heading
* Waypoints

11. Visual aids to navigation
* Lighthouses, buoys, leading marks
* Light characteristics

12. Meteorology
* Sources of weather forecasts
* Terminology used in weather forecasts, the Beaufort wind scale
* Basic knowledge of frontal depressions

13. Passage planning
* Planning of short coastal passages
* Accounting for weather forecasts
* Using waypoints
* The importance of confirming position with independent sources
* Position corrections

15. Navigation in limited visibility
* Preparation for navigation in fog

16. Pilotage
* Transits and position lines
* IALA system for region A
* Pilotage plan
* Entering harbour

17. The marine environment
* Respect for marine ecology