Seamanship Index

Isn't it great that sailing is an activity in which one can always learn something new, no matter how often we've done it or how much we've studied? It's never boring, as the situation is never exactly the same...just ask a delivery captain. The skills one needs to become relatively proficient and self-sufficient while underway, often far from immediate assistance, include a broad variety of seamanship topics ...to find our way, to stay put where we want to, to be safe under varied conditions, to know how to care for health concerns, to fix what's broken, among others. Here is where we will tackle some of the key subjects of concern to us all. Here is where we will share our collective experience to validate what we already know and what we don't!

American Yacht Club creates a sunflower raft in Narragansett Bay - click here to read how.
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• Raster and Vector Charts for United States Waters on DVD
• Working aloft
• "Patchy Fog": Testing yourself and your skills with instrument sailing.
• Computers for Navigation: displays for the rest of us
• Anchoring Etiquette: The unwritten 'rules of the rode'
• The Zen of Tidying up
• Keeping a night watch schedule
• Owning a boat – Sort of….Fractional Sailing
• Day shapes and night lights
• When is a sailboat not a sailboat? Rules of the Road or COLREGS for dummies
• The first rule - know where you are.
• The crew briefing: an informed crew is a safe and happy crew!
• The art of the personal signal
• Just off the Press, the Crew Overboard Report by John Rousmaniere for the BoatUS Foundation
• The Importance of Practicing MOB Drills and Crew Training
• PLBs take the search out of search and rescue
• There and Back Again: Navigation center
• Towing vs Salvage: Knowing the difference can save you a fortune
• Time to bone up on your flag etiquette

  Are you confident of your flag etiquette?

• Assembling a medical kit for Coastal Cruising
• So you want to get your USCG Captain's License?
• All in a day's sailing: After fire strikes terror in your soul.
• Preparing for a USCG Auxiliary Courtesy Inspection
• What is the meaning of Zulu time?
• Tools for coastal navigation
• Using a Hand-Bearing Compass: Getting a fix and more!
• Chartering the in the Caribbean and Bahamas: What does it take to bareboat?
• New NOAA navigation products for free!
• Choosing the Ideal Coastal Sailing Vessel
• Don't throw away that Loran C
• Anchoring Basics
• VHF Radio Basics: Protocol & Etiquette, Licensing, and Station Lists
• Free electronic charts from NOAA!
• VHF Radio DSC - what you need to do to make it operational
• Care for your PFDs
• How to make a sunflower raft
• What you don't know about your compass
• Navigation Information
• Resources to increase your safety on the water

  Free Downloadable Booklet Charts from NOAA being tested

• Getting ready for an overnight cruise
• What to tell overnight guests
• Women at the helm
• Note of Caution about ATN Topclimber

Heading home at sunset. Be sure you can find your way back!

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