BOATING SKILLS AND SEAMANSHIP

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BOATING SKILLS AND SEAMANSHIP

• Lesson 1
• Which Boat is For You

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Good Seamanship
The Basic Principles of GOOD SEAMANSHIP apply
regardless of
OR
SAFE BOATING IS NO ACCIDENT
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Lesson Objectives

• Importance of Boating Safety
• How to talk about boats and motors
• Variety of boats and motors
• Boat hull types and boat use
• Essentials of Boat Construction
• Match boats to needs
• Boat defects, contracts, insurance

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Boaters Language

• Much derived from ancient sailing days
• Norwegian rudder was a STJORN
• (pronounced starn)
• STJORN BOARD was on right side of vessel facing
  to front
• Right of vessel became
• STARBOARD

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Boaters Language

• Left Side of Vessel was next to Dock (Port side)
  again facing front
• The Loading Board was on the LEFT side
• LOAD BOARD became LARBOARD
• LARBOARD / STARBOARD sounded too much alike
• LARBOARD changed to PORT
• PORT - STARBOARD

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Boat Power
Outboards
Stern Drives Inboard/outboards I/O
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Outboards

• Disadvantages
• Higher RPM
• Less efficient Operation
• EPA
• May require a transom cutout

• Advantages
• Easy to Service
• Take up less room
• Less weight per
• HP
• Trim the drive

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Stern Drives

• Advantages
• Quieter
• Better Fuel Economy
• Lower RPM
• Trim the drive
• Disadvantages
• More weight per HP
• Loss of Deck Space
• Lower unit Gearing Problems
• Danger of Fire Explosion

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Inboard Drives

• Advantages
• Simple gearbox straight shaft
• All machinery but prop in boat
• Engine centered and balanced
• Good control for skiers
• Disadvantages
• Poor rudder control, esp.
• at slow speed reverse
• May disrupt deck space
• Thrust upward vs parallel to surface

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Jet Drive

• Safety no propeller
• Operate in shallows
• High speed
• No prop walk

• More slippage
• Need power to steer
• May be noise

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Hull Types
Planing
Displacement

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Utility Boats

• Prams
• Dinghies
• Inflatables
• Skiffs
• Utility Outboards

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Runabouts
Bowrider
Cuddy Cabin
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Cruisers

• Deckboats
• Houseboat

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Personal Watercraft
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Boat Construction

• Steel
• Advantages
• Durability
• Strength
• Disadvantages
• Rust, metal fatigue deterioration
• Weight
• Magnetic
• Electrolysis

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Boat Construction

• Aluminum
• Light weight
• Difficult to protect from Marine Growth
• Susceptible to Electrolysis
• Good Heat Conductor
• Noisy

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Wood

• Workability
• Relatively expensive
• Strong but heavy
• Considerable maintenance
• Declining availability

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Fiberglass

• Fiberglass layers / strands saturated with resin
• Advantages
• No seams or joints
• Strong
• Molded into any desired shape
• Low maintenance
• Easily protected against Marine growth
• Disadvantages
• Heavy Heavier than water
• Easy to cover up shoddy work
• Resins that bind will burn

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Construction Process
Hand-Lay-up Chopped-Strand
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Construction Process

• Matched Die Process
• Male and female molds used
• Clamped together with Laminate between
• Sandwich Process
• Core material covered with layers of fiberglass
• Usually Balsa Wood sometimes Foamed Plastics or
  Plywood
• Strong and Buoyant

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Coast Guard Customer Infoline (term 2008)

• www.uscgboating.org
• Recalls - Safety Defects
• MARINE SURVEYORS
• Recommended when Buying A Used Boat

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Summary

• Boaters Language
• Types of Boats
• Power Plants
• Hull Design
• Use of Boats
• Construction Materials
• Coast Guard Infoline
• Marine Surveyors