Boating School

[Rash]

What did I learn?

• Rules of the Road
• Meteorology
• Search and Rescue
• Maintnance
• Ship vocabulary
• Tacking/Jibing
• Standing under the wind
• Escape from a sandbar
• Rules while in port
• Rules while underway

I had the second highest score on the written test in a class of 12.  It was a three week sleepaway school with six hours of sailing daily and one hour of lecture every other day.  Quizzes were every three days, and I had to translate my notes from spoken Polish to written English so that I could learn.  It wasn't easy, but I learned a great deal.

-Penguin

Sounds like you a very good knowledge of what to do.

That tack and jib thing is very important in sail boats, also, boats don't track like cars, they pivot.  So when you're turning at very slow speeds, the stern swings around.  Use your nose when refueling and watch for other boaters.  Some of them don't pay very good attention to what they are doing.  Oh, stay off the water at night, too many idiots out at night.

[Penguin]

Erm, refueling?  I've never used anything more powerful than an outboard motor.

-Penguin

[Rash]

boats burn quick.

[Penguin]

Not when they're made of concrete! (One of our boats was).

However, I still don't see what you're talking about.  Is it that using the nose to refuel gives you time to get away if the sand hits the fan?

-Penguin

[Rash]

Just be careful with fuel.  When refueling, the vapors can travel all through the boat, if something is not working right.  Mud dobber or spider nest clogging a fuel vent, or whatever.  I had it happen and that "whoosh" sound isn't a nice one to hear.

[Penguin]

Yeowch!  Did you try to put it out, or did you jump overboard?

-Penguin

[Golfer]

Yeowch!  Did you try to put it out, or did you jump overboard?

-Penguin

What did they teach you to do in your boating school?  Surely you wouldn't have used a fire extinguisher and would have waited for the fire department to arrive, right?

[Penguin]

We got no fire eductation, owing to the fact that we were instructed to never carry anything flammable aboard.  I don't know what I would do.  I'd probably scream, wet myself and jump overboard. 

-Penguin

[Golfer]

We got no fire eductation, owing to the fact that we were instructed to never carry anything flammable aboard.  I don't know what I would do.  I'd probably scream, wet myself and jump overboard. 

-Penguin

You'll make a hell of a captain.

[Penguin]

I still haven't completed my education.  The summer before I leave for college (one needs to be of eighteen years of age to take the class), I'll be off for my second time at boating school to earn my helmsman's liscense.  I'll probably learn about fire safety then.

However, if I keep my grades up, during this summer I'll be off to California on a two week cruise to learn more about sailing, SCUBA, and marine biology.

-Penguin

[F22RaptorDude]

I still haven't completed my education.  The summer before I leave for college (one needs to be of eighteen years of age to take the class), I'll be off for my second time at boating school to earn my helmsman's liscense.  I'll probably learn about fire safety then.

However, if I keep my grades up, during this summer I'll be off to California on a two week cruise to learn more about sailing, SCUBA, and marine biology.

-Penguin

I've been around fire alot, do you know about all the classes of fire extinguishers? and what each one does? I can recite fire safety like my abc's. I hate the fact I mess around with it so much cause sooner or later luck runs out. but I'd keep a Class ABC Fire extinguisher on the boat at all times.

[Penguin]

A class D?  That's for fine metal powder fires.  I'd probably need a class A fire extinguisher, and maybe a class B and C if I added electronics and an outboard motor, respectively.

-Penguin

[F22RaptorDude]

A class D?  That's for fine metal powder fires.  I'd probably need a class A fire extinguisher, and maybe a class B and C if I added electronics and an outboard motor, respectively.

-Penguin

My bad I fixed that, I figured an AB cause A is for burning wood and such which clearly some boats are made of, and B for the fact that gasoline is up and open. But you would overall want a ABC fire Extinguisher.

[Penguin]

An ABC is a good choice for home and boat.

-Penguin

[68ZooM]

On my Mastercraft i have a Stinger automatic onboard fire suppersion system, electric or manual operation the spray head valves sit right over the carb, i also carry a handheld 5lb Marine rated ABC Extinguisher in case i see someone in trouble.