Sailing is a great adventure in any type of vessel and is enjoyed daily by many, but that comes great responsibility. Not required to do a navigation course at the moment, but there are some very good reasons to be aware of the rules of the road.
1) You will learn about safety equipment and what they are obliged to take his ship before embarking on a boat trip. This is important because it is not that you could be the difference between the situation, a situation can not or. You can also exit for the day when you stop the boat and the expense of the vice-examine on the spot fines for not with all the necessary safety equipment for their specific boat.
2) You learn that driving a boat is very different than driving a car. You have it with air and water currents. If you have never docked a boat you can think it is easy, until the current moves in the opposite direction you want to go. Understanding of the air and running water will help you get the docking of the boat.
3) Learn how with lines and nodes work is part of the navigation. You must be able to properly secure a boat. If the boat moves away, it's amazing how quickly the current take you beyond your reach, and probably the help of another sailor's need help to get there. So learn your knots.
4) You will learn what the average channel markers. We have learned the hard way, for the first time I went on a ship run aground and outside the markers. No idea what had the red and green markings resources at the poles. They learn on the golf course.
5) There are no speed limits on certain waterways, but in contrast to the roads will not be published possibly. Ignorance may not be enough, you get a ticket.
6) Using charts for coastal navigation can be a life saver. It is your road map that allows you to stay away from the dangers and shows that all markers and bridges, and using the measurements you would be the distance and time needed to calculate her somewhere. Tool can be useful for navigation.
7) How in the streets, it is a right of way. In a navigation course, you learn that you have the right of way, and why.
8) Each vessel must have a horn. You can listen to a long or short Toot Toot 2 and so on, and you will know what they mean.
9) It is boating regulations and laws that are followed by all the sailors (for example, and I've violated this rule failed so often) times may not be seated at the bow of the boat, his feet dangling over the side. There are many more rules to learn and do not know that can have consequences.
10), a boat anchor is not just a matter of plopping it in the sand. It is applied a mathematical procedure, the anchor that has to do with the size and length of the boat. Find out how this does not correctly give you the extra insurance to know that your boat is going anywhere until you want to move.
There are different ways to enjoy boat as the rapid pace of cross country navigation, or the slow pace of a trawler, kayak or canoe. In the way you want to do to make it a good idea to know the rules of the road. Then you can avoid further potential and desire it with all that sky, sun, water, family and friends.
Enjoy!
