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“Rubber” Docking

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the boat handling skills of leaving and returning to a dock on both sides of a boat. Setting Up the Drill: Equipment: 4 to 6 buoys…

Person-in-Water (PIW) Retrieval (dockside)

Purpose-Value: Practice the skill of bringing a person in the water onboard a boat using appropriate equipment and techniques, and to determine limitations in successful retrievals. Setting Up the Drill:…

Turtled Boat Rescue

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the rescue skill of approaching and righting a turtled sailboat using a method(s) appropriate for the type of boat. Setting Up the Drill: Equipment: a sailboat…

Person-in-Water (PIW)/Crew Overboard (COB) Rescue

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the boat handling skills of taking immediate and proper action when a person falls overboard and to successfully maneuver back to the person in the water…

Minimum Control Speed Formation

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the boat handling skill of operating a boat with control at the slowest possible speed (slower than at idle speed) when docking, approaching a ramp or…

Minimum Control Speed

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the boat handling skill of operating a boat with control at the slowest possible speed (slower than at idle speed) when docking, approaching a ramp or…

Mast Tip Lift

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the rescue skill of approaching and righting a capsized sailboat, using the Mast Tip Lift method. Setting Up the Drill: Equipment: sailboat with flotation at top…

Leap Frog Follow the Leader

Purpose-Value: Practice and develop the boat handling skill of making transitions from slow speed to planing to slow speed while optimizing visibility and boat control during the maneuver. Setting Up…

Hold Position – Upwind

Purpose-Value: Hold a boat in a fixed position while waiting for dock space, ramp access, or a bridge or lock to open. Stresses the importance of the maxim, “Keep the…

Hold Position – Downwind

Purpose-Value: Hold a boat in a fixed position while waiting for dock space, ramp access, or a bridge or lock to open. Stresses the importance of the maxim, “Keep the…