• All aspects of the syllabus including:
• Stability,
• Cargo,
• Legislative Requirements,
• Rules of the Road

Ship construction

• Ship construction technology
• Longitudinal, transverse and local stresses due to static and dynamic loading
• Methods of yacht construction
• Plans normally carried on board
• The cause and prevention of corrosion
• The functions of classification societies
• Load lines, reserve buoyancy and methods of damage control
• Bilge pumping systems

Stability

• Basic principles of hydrostatics and related items
• Initial stability

  Meteorology

  • Global wind distribution
  • The causes of local winds
  • The effects of water vapour in the atmosphere
  • The practical use and care of common meteorological instruments
  • Frontal depressions
  • The sources of weather information available to ships

  Seamanship

  • The responsibilities of the officer of the watch in relation to boarding a yacht
  • The precautions to be taken in preparing a vessel for sea
  • SOLAS and MARPOL
  • The Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers (CoSWP)

• Magnetic compass,
• Gyro compass,
• Chartwork,
• Chart correction,
• Notices to mariners,
• Practical tides,
• International Regulations for the Prevention of Collision at Sea (IRPCS),
• Buoyage system test,
• Navigation aids,
• Radar and radar plotting,
• ARPA, AIS

• Basic Principles,
  Form Coefficients,
  Tonnes Per Centimetre Immersion,Introduction to Load Lines
  Centre of Gravity (G) and Centre of Buoyancy (B),
  Introduction to Transverse Statical Stability
  Conditions of Stability
  Initial Transverse Metacentre
  Free Surface Effect
  Curves of Statical Stability (GZ Curves)
  List
  Introduction to Trim13. Suspended Weights
  Assessing Compliance of a Ship’s Loaded Condition with IMO Criteria
  Curves of Statical Stability for Varying Conditions of Stability
  The Wall Sided Formula
  Factors Affecting GZ Curve Shape
  The International Grain Code (IMO)
  Inclining Experiment
  Trim Using Hydrostatic Data
  Dry Docking
  Bilging
  Angle of Heel due to Turning
  Wind Heeling, Ice Accretion and Rolling
  Stability Problems Associated with Specific Ship Types
  Calculation and Assignment of Freeboard
  Shear Forces and Bending Moments in Ships
  Practical Ship Loading Problems

We cover :

• Efficient and correct calculator use,
• Algebraic manipulation,  Algebraic transposition,
• Algebraic substitution,
• orming and solving linear equations,
• Right angled trigonometry,
• Interpolation,
• Speed/distance/time problems

• Global wind distribution
• The causes of local winds
• The effects of water vapour in the atmosphere
• The practical use and care of common meteorological instruments
• Frontal depressions
• The sources of weather information available to ships