Help with dayskipper homework

[Ade]

Missed 2 weeks nightschool due to holiday but trying to do the homework. Stuck on discharging things overboard in marina and 2 miles offshore. Cant find any reference in my books.Dont know what 'the heads' are..
Any suggestions please???

[Phil Chitty]

Ade

I can help you with part of this.

The "head" is a phrase that refers to a toilet or bathroom on a vessel where the discharge of water would be termed "black water". This refers to sewage rather than "grey water" which is rain etc.

Hope this is some help.

[Ian]

didn't you get an Environmental leaflet in you Day Skipper pack from the tutor?
I'll try to find mine and send you some details.

[Phil Davies]

Just found mine in my Dayskipper pack! It's called 'Tide Lines - Environmental Guidance for Boat Users' and details the type of sewage, toxic waste etc. you shouldn't chuck overboard. It also suggests you should bear in mind the lower emissions from a 4-stroke engine when choosing a new outboard!!

Try the RYA website, www.rya.org.uk, to see if they've got an online copy. If that fails give me your fax number, Ade, and I'll send you a copy.

[Ade]

Thanks for help..couldn't find the leaflet but found a website with the answers on it...washing up water only in marina..heads only further out (I hope)

[wavelength]

yachtmaster short paper question this year "up to what distance from the shore is it illegal to discharge food waste into the sea" Answer "within 3 miles off the shore (12 miles in the North Sea or English Channel). Do not dump poorly degrading peelings or skins in the sea."
Hope that helps.

[Ade]

Thanks..question related to 2 miles offshore and apple core and orange peel.
Doing next weeks weather questions now..

[Ade]

8 actions to take when entering fog?????
Even my total experience of 2 days at Powerboat Training in Poole and 2 days on Windermere can't help me with this one!!

[wavelength]

Panic seems appropriate.
first thoughts
wear lifejackets, hoist radar reflector, get a position fix so you know where you were before you get lost, find foghorn, sort out passage plan to avoid areas were you might get run down etc etc
-and in the real world be grateful you have got gps onboard! but that may not sit well with whatever the correct answer allegedly is. Must go-plane to catch!

[wavelength]

oh found the book here in the drawer- muster crew on deck(not rib orientated that one) with aforementioned lifejackets on listen to port ops channel vhf so you know whats out there keep constant radar watch (if youve got one hmm!) Sound foghorn (the one we looked for earlier) one long blast every two minutes (power) one long two short (sail) Follow contour line in - never found that much good but the yotties love it as an answer for everything- why no mention of gps in the book?-Seems that they have adopted gps for some of the book but not all of it.
What did you do with the apple cores etc ????

[Ade]

Thanks for replies...a lot more amusing than the night class....
Kept the apple core and orange peel(Dont eat much on my little boat on Windermere) because I reckon that orange peel takes ages to rot down and so I can't chuck it overboard....

Had enough of the homework for today..

[jwalker]

Originally posted by Ade
8 actions to take when entering fog?????

Also: If you're on your rib, slow down, listen for other fog horns because your engine is loud. Hopefully you know where you are, so keep away from shipping lanes if poss. Keep a good watch. You are very manoeuvrable, others may not be.

On the engine noise. If you have twin engines they are able to develop a beat which is VERY like a close fog horn. Do NOT presume it is an engine beat, it could be a fog horn. Been there, done that. Very alarming to have a large vessel loom out of the mist 50mtrs off your bow!

[Mark Halliday]

Yacht on encountering unlit naval ship in thick fog.

Yacht:- "What ship?"
Ship:- "HMS .........., What vessel?"
Yacht:- "Yacht Silly Sod"
HMS ...:- "Yacht Silly Sod, you are the middle of a high speed training exercise, clear the area at best speed."
Yacht:- "Which way at 3 kts?"
HMS...:-"Yacht Silly Sod, suggest you sink where you are."

[Bern Hanreck]

Moor up at the shallowest possible location . If you are going to be hit by anything , hope it's the same size or smaller than yourself !

[Phil Davies]

Ade, just to let you know that I sat my Dayskipper chartwork assessment paper last night and, for a modest sum payable into my Jersey bank account, we may be able to come to some mutually agreeable arrangement

[Manos]

Originally posted by Phil Davies
Ade, just to let you know that I sat my Dayskipper chartwork assessment paper last night and, for a modest sum payable into my Jersey bank account, we may be able to come to some mutually agreeable arrangement

[Ade]

Can't afford a bribe cos I spent all my money on the course books. Am relying on multi choice questions and a monkey-mark of 25%....

[Brian]

Just spotted on the RYA website, a CD "The Complete Course" product code A1.
This CD promises to cover all the Yachtmaster Course and much more besides.
Sounds good value at £49.95. Too good to be true?
Does anyone have any comments?

[aligator]

hi
i find it good,
you will need the training maps and tide book to get the best from it , in fact with out them its really pointless .Rya now do these in one set which i believe is better value than buying seperate,
what i find really good are the exercise and test question sections
it is whole lot cheaper than correspondance course

Alistair

[Cookee]

Originally posted by aligator
training maps

When I was a boy they called them charts!