Helmsmans Training and Instruction
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Advanced Training Course

This course is designed to develop new skills in boat handling and single crew operations.

The advanced training course will be on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (Staffs and Worcs) and then go onto the River Severn. The typical course will pass up to 10 locks including two staircases and big river locks. If you require a tailored course to suit your needs this can be arranged.

Syllabus

The course will consist of practice in the following:

Single crew manoeuvring, mooring, operation of locks including staircases, lock keeper operated river locks and emergencies.

Manoeuvring the bow with the pole and steering in reverse.

Bow thruster operation (if that’s advanced) to move the boat sideways and reverse.

Manoeuvring with ropes controlling both the bow and stern during mooring arrival and departure, winding and turning, lock techniques, rope spring techniques.

Man overboard drills and exercises on the river.

Anchoring on rivers, in an emergency and by choice.

An appreciation of VHF radio procedures.

Prop walk and boat momentum differences and recognition.

Duration
Courses are held as required throughout the year. The course is one day; Start at 09.00, finish approximately 17:30.
The cost is £135 each.

Boats Used
Instruction is on a luxury, 58 feet, steel narrowboat.

  
Rope Tricks
Anchored at Tixall Wide

Prop walk

At the same time as moving a boat forwards or backwards some propeller installations move the stern of a boat sideways.
A right-hand prop rotates clockwise when viewed from the rear and may try to move the stern to the right when in forward gear.
ICC Prop
This sideways motion is easily corrected by the effective rudder which has lots of water being passed over it by the propeller.

When in reverse gear a right-hand prop may move the stern to the left.
ICC Prop

This sideways motion is difficult to correct because of poor rudder authority when in reverse, which is caused by the lack of water passing over the rudder.

For a left-hand prop everything is the opposite way round.

The theory of Prop Walk.
For interest reading click here.

Bow Hauling


Inland Waterways Cruising School,
The Hawthorns, The Village, Chaddesley Corbett, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY10 4SD.
Tel: 01562 777685, Mobile: 07973 737765,  Email: training@cruisingschool.co.uk