3. Safety Boat Operator

• Document No.

• Audit Title

• Client / Site

• Conducted on

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• Prepared by

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• Personnel

Boats and Equipment

Personal Equipment

• Can select suitable clothing and equipment appropriate to the activity, area of operation and prevailing conditions

• Can identify different types of lifejacket and suitable for driver and crew

Safety Boats

• Can select suitable vessel to support a variety of on water activities

• Can select and use safety equipment appropriate to activity

Race Management

• Has knowledge of race course design and management

• Can position craft considering race fleet, hazards and sailing area

• Knows methods for communicating with other boats and shore

Boat Handling - Skills and Techniques

General

• Can 'stand off' other craft

• Can come alongside other vessels and sailing craft whilst underway

• Can lay and recover marker buoys

• Demonstrates correct use of the Kill Cord at all times

• Has working knowledge of techniques for dealing with lee-shore scenarios

Towing

• Knows how to rig multiple tows

• Understands towing fragile high performance boats

• Can tow alongside

Rescue of other Craft

Dinghy

• Can demonstrate the correct approach

• Can right capsized and inverted dinghies

• Knows how to right multihulls

• Knows how to deal with entrapments

Windsurf

• Can demonstrate the correct approach

• Can recover a person in the water

• Knows techniques for recovering multiple boards and sails

• Can recover a single board without disassembly

Kayaks (can be covered in theory)

• Knows the correct approach

• Knows how to rescue different types of kayaks/canoe

• Knows how to return the paddler to a kayak/canoe

Kitesurfing (Optional)

• Knows the correct approach

• Knows how to handle, deflate and recover a kite from the water

Instructor Details

• Instructor Signature

  Sign

• Date

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