Motor Boats & Yachting's boat skills: Radar vs AIS
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Motor Boats & Yachting - Yachtmaster - Part 16
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Following on from our recent post highlighting the changes the MCA have made to their pleasure vessel recommendations, they have also highlighted their ‘best practice” guidelines. So in addition to complying with the regulations their top six best practice points are: Get Trained – It is sensible to undertake some form of training suitable to the intended voyage(s) of your vessel; if you do get…
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Someone in the water is probably what most boaters dread, and something which all training courses teach and practise is how to return the boat to the casualty. Something that I feel personally, is that far less time is spent actually going through how to get them back out of the water. Last year we had a really scary incident in the marina when two…
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As I sit here in the warm looking at the snow falling I almost needed a reminder of why we do boating! Then it dawned on me, not only was it February but 2015, that makes it 10 years since I decided that driving a desk at the RYA was to be a thing of the past and I should start my own little maritime…
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