Below is an outline of our core curriculum. Please click here for a printable PDF version.
- Understanding man overboard routine
- Avoidance of crushing injuries
- Special risks to children
- Correctly fit buoyancy aid or life jacket
- Avoiding fire risk and using fire fighting equipment
Safe use of
- Windlass
- Understanding how a lock works
- Names of its components
- Importance of water conservation.
- Lock etiquette.
Safe use of
- Boathooks & Barge poles
- Anchor & Piling hooks
- Mooring pins
- Knots & rope handling
- Securing to pins, bollards and rings
- Communications, hand signals, horn
- Correct terminology for pars of craft
- Steering, mooring up, rules of the road
- Understanding behaviour of narrowboats in shallow and deep water, and their interaction with other boats, banks, bridges and tunnels.
- Running aground procedures
License conditions, by laws and environmental considerations.
Every effort will be made to blend the curriculum into the practicality of the day thus reinforcing theory with practise.
- Routine checks
- Weed hatch checks
- Location of isolation devices