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Collision rules, lights and shapes, IALA buoyage, the rule of twelfths, prop walk, berthing into the stream, man overboard and Mayday. Every topic has its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 66 illustrated pages.
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Every page has one large drawing and a box with the rules, numbers and steps you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 62 topics.
You're on the water and a black-and-yellow pillar buoy comes up off the bow, two cones on top. You know it's a cardinal, but which side do you pass?
The manual gives it to you in paragraphs: topmarks, colours, quadrants, light characteristics. Four marks described in words, and in your head they keep swapping places.
In the book, cardinal marks are one page: the four buoys drawn round a danger, cones up for north, down for south, base to base for east, point to point for west. The black is where the cones point.
The same goes for Rule 17, the lights of a vessel not under command, the rule of twelfths, prop walk and man overboard: each one has its own page.
You see the buoy, you see where the black is and you pass on the named side. No going back to the manual to check.
Your BML and the assessment, collision regulations, lights and sound signals, buoyage, charts and tides, boat handling, emergencies, the law and revision for the oral: 66 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
It's your oral and the examiner says: high water at 14:20, a six-metre range. How far has the tide dropped by 16:20? You need the rule of twelfths, and you need it now.
In the book you open the rule of twelfths page and see the curve drawn hour by hour: half a metre in the first hour, one in the second. One and a half metres down by 16:20.
The same with Rule 15 crossing, cardinal marks, prop walk, berthing into the stream and a Mayday call: each one on its own page.
Boatmaster Licence Illustrated is 9 parts and 66 pages, all drawn, with revision pages for the oral at the end.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
Tier 1 and Tier 2, Level 1 and Level 2, the four water categories, endorsements and what the examiner wants to hear at the oral.
Lookout and safe speed, risk of collision, action to avoid it, narrow channels, overtaking, head-on, crossing, give-way and stand-on, and restricted visibility.
The light arcs, power-driven and sailing vessels, towing, NUC and RAM, constrained by draught, pilot and fishing vessels, anchored and aground, and sound signals.
IALA Region A lateral marks, direction of buoyage, cardinal marks and their lights, isolated danger, safe water, special and wreck marks, and light characteristics.
Chart datum, springs and neaps, tide tables, the rule of twelfths, height of tide in 5 steps, underkeel clearance, air draught, tidal streams, compass, weather and passage planning.
Prop walk, pivot point, wind against stream, berthing into the stream, mooring lines, springing off, anchoring and interaction.
Passenger briefing and headcount, man overboard, cold water, Mayday, Pan-Pan and Sécurité, fire, collision, grounding, flooding and abandoning the vessel.
Hours of work and rest, alcohol and drug limits, pollution and reporting accidents.
Lights, shapes, sound signals and buoyage at a glance, the tidal calculations checklist and the night before the oral.
At the end of the book: Revision pages for the oral: lights, shapes, sound signals and buoyage at a glance, plus a 7-step tidal calculations checklist.
Practise the kind of questions you'll be asked on lights, buoyage, tides and emergencies, with a clear answer and the page to revise for each one.
See the mix-ups that catch people out most often, like port and starboard marks or a vessel's lights, with the wrong way and the right way side by side.
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Every rule, light and mark on its own page, so you build the syllabus one drawing at a time instead of wading through the regulations.
The revision pages put lights, shapes, buoyage and the tidal checklist at a glance, so you can go over it all the night before.
You know the boat. The book gives you the rules and procedures in the same order every time, so you can explain what you already do.
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Yes. It isn't a beginner's book: it puts the collision rules, lights, buoyage, tides and emergency procedures in order, so you can explain what you already do. It covers Tier 1 and Tier 2, Level 1 and Level 2. The tidal pages in part 5 are what Level 2 adds; everything else applies on non-tidal water too. Local byelaws and local knowledge for your area aren't in it: your operator or navigation authority covers those.
It's checked against the Boatmasters' Qualifications Regulations (SI 2015/410) and current MCA guidance, the COLREGs as applied in the UK (MSN 1781) and the IALA Region A buoyage system.
No. It's an independent study book. It isn't published, approved or endorsed by the MCA or any navigation authority, and it doesn't give you a certificate or count towards your licence: that comes from your MCA assessment.
No. It doesn't replace approved training, sea time, your first aid and safety courses or the local knowledge your area requires. It's for studying and revising alongside them.
No. They're written for this book, covering the kinds of topics candidates get asked about, with an answer and the page to revise for each one.
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No. It's a one-off payment. No subscription.
Yes. It's a PDF you can print at home or at a print shop and keep on board.
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No more rereading without anything sticking.
Cardinal marks, lights and tides: you see them drawn and that's it.
You walk into the oral knowing where everything is.
Drawings make studying faster.
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