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Syllabus Matches

National Marine Modules

• MEM 50.8EA Classify marine recreational technologies and features. Ch 1: Boats and regulations
• MEM 50.8EA Carry out trip preparation and planning. Ch 2: Pre-departure check
• MEM 50.9AA Safely operate a mechanically powered recreational craft Ch 3: Boating skills and navigation
• MEM 50.10EA Respond to boating emergencies and incidents. Ch 4: Emergency responses

Suitable for

• Queensland Marine Studies Syllabus (Skills Evaluation)
• Queensland BOATSAFE Courses
• Tasmania - Skippers Trainee Logbook
• Western Australia Recreational Skippers Ticket
• New South Wales, Victoria, NT and South Australia Boat Licence courses
  

 

About

Contents and format

• All slides are designed to be used with the 3rd Edition National Powerboating Workbook and InstructorÕs Guide.
• All sample lectures conclude with revision questions from the student workbook.
  
• Slides are a combination of single colour photographs and illustrations that match and enhance the student workbook.
  
• Slide sequence can be rearranged to suit your own requirements.
  
• The text cannot be changed and the CD does not talk to you.

 

Sample lectures

Sample lecture 1 - How a boat is designed and where it can go

• 103 slides
• Topics - where a boat can go, vessel configurations, stability, hull types and features, boat systems (propulsion, fuel and ignition, steering and gear, engine cooling, electrical and navigation, anchoring, mooring and berthing, trailer), fasteners, fittings, places on a boat.

Sample lecture 2: The general safety obligation

• 98 slides
• Topics - boat maintenance, comply with Government regulations, identify safety equipment

Sample lecture 3: How to avoid collisions

• 98 slides
• Topics - buoyage system rules, other navigation aids, boating rules, flags and signals, identify navigation lights and vessel activities

Sample lecture 4 - Planning a trip

• 68 slides
  
• Topics - plan where you want to go, weather conditions, using clouds as a guide, wind and waves as a guide, reading a weather map, interpreting weather warnings and tidal information, latitude and longitude, magnetic variation, charts and equipment, determining where you want, waypoint navigation, using back bearings, emergency planning

Sample lecture 5 - Boating skills

• 81 slides
  
• Topics - rowing, refuelling, mounting an outboard motor and precheck, start an outboard motor, minimum control speed, departing and returning from a beach, drive a boat, departing from and returning to a dock, crossing a wash, make a turn in a confined space, making an emergency stop, mooring at a buoy, handling some adverse conditions, anchoring, launching and retrieving a boat, some handy knots

Sample lecture 6 - Emergency response

• 66 slides
• Topics - conduct a safety briefing, rescue a person overboard, useflares and signalling devices, accept a tow, deal with engine failure, fight a fire, use a radio, activate an EPIRB, help others in distress, deal with a capsized boat, abandon ship.