Ken Gillstrom brings the “Emergencies on Board” seminar on to your boat, for what will prove to be an educational and fun weekend, covering how you can handle various emergency situations on your boat, which you must bring to the course. Exercises will include:
- Flood Control: Calculating capacity of bilge pumps and testing their effectiveness
- Fire Fighting: Fire below – simulation of attacking a fire on board while blindfolded, and finding alternative emergency exits
- Vessel Evacuation: Assigning responsibilities, ditch bad preparedness
- Crew Overboard Prevention (COB): Set up a tether/jackline system on you boat that will give you full access to deck; however, not allow you to fall into the water, and how to retrieve a COB from the water
- Electronic Navigation Systems Failure in Fog: Blind navigation exercise
Points will be awarded for successes of each exercise, with an overall winner declared at the end of the course.
Weekend Outline
Friday:
- Afternoon: Arrive at Plumper Cove (Keats Island)
- Evening 1800h:
- Pot luck hors d’oeurves in the park
- Review of weekend’s events, exercise handouts and scoring sheet
- Review of Emergencies on Board Handout (emailed to participants in advance)
Saturday:
- Morning @ 0900h:
- Flood Control
- Fire Fighting
- Vessel Evacuation
- COB Prevention
- BYO Lunch on Shore
- Afternoon @ 1330h:
- Calibrating depth meter
- Calibrating speed log
- Creating a Deviation table for your ship’s compass
- Simulation of navigation in heavy fog WITHOUT use of GPS, Chart Plotter and Radar. In this exercise the navigator will be asked to stay below deck, so there are no visuals, and will only have depth, speed, compass course and time to work with. The navigator will be asked to direct the vessel to a selected spot on the chart. The closest boat to the mark wins this challenge. Participants should come equipped with appropriate paper chart of the area and tide/current tables.
- Evening @ 1800h:
- Scores will be tallied and prizes awarded
- Potluck dinner on shore
Sunday:
- Morning @ 0900h:
- On board Voyageur 10.10: coffee, tea, juice and baked goods
- Retrieving a COB from the water: Trial of various methods
- Ascending the mast safely: Trial of various methods aboard your vessel
- Wrap up around 1300h
Additional Information
Mooring/docking fees are not included in the price. There is a limit of 4 participants per boat.
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