Seamanship
This site is provided as a means of communications with the USPS National Boat Handling Committee (BHCom). We welcome your questions and comments on our courses, Learning Guides, and associated materials.
R/C Wilber G. Hugli, SN
Stf/C John Bennett, SN
Stf/C Robert R. Palmer, SN
Stf/C Lawrence Rathbun, AP
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Seamanship 2009 Information
Because our stock is nearly gone, Seamanship student and instructor manuals have been reprinted. A number of previously identified minor editorial changes were made for the reprinting, but the content is interchangeable between printings. To help identify the new material, the name was changed from Seamanship 2007 to Seamanship 2009. If you receive an Instructor Manual for Seamanship 2009 and Seamanship 2007 Student Manuals, it will not make any difference—proceed with the class. Shortly all of the 2007 printed manuals will be exhausted. The Seamanship exam library has not changed. (03 Jan 09)
Seamanship 2007 Corrections
An additional change should be made to the Seamanship 2007 Student and Instructor Manuals. The change of 10 June 2008 is: "Change Seamanship 2007 Chapter 5, Home Work question 20 to read: "...required to sound a bell at least every two minutes, but may make another sound is:"". Changes from 27 March 2008 are listed in this PDF (10KB) document. (17 Jun 08)
Correction to One Minute Rules of the Road
Please make the following pen & ink change to Charlie Wing's One Minute Rules of the Road, 2nd Edition. Introduction, page 9, paragraph 4, line 1 change the word twenty to twelve. (7 Feb 08)
Animation and Flash Imagery Help
If you are still having problems opening the course and seminar animations on the Seamanship CD, the following may help. A member spent a long time researching the issue (specifically, the frustratingly unclear message "some controls on this presentation could not be activated" out of PowerPoint).
He finally found another solution (or at least a solution that worked):
1. Allegedly, one must download a Flash player that works with a browser
and not just a stand-alone player. The URL at Adobe for this is:
www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/flash.html.
2. You MUST do it using Internet Explorer. (13 Oct 07)
Seamanship Now Available Online
In partnership with the University of West Florida (UWF), our Seamanship advanced grade course has been made available to those USPS members needing an alternative method of effective boating education. Get complete details on the Seamanship Online web page. (06 Sep 07)
Seamanship 101/102 Exams
Seamanship 2007 has been available for several months. If there are members who started but did not complete Seamanship 101/102, the exams must be completed by December 31, 2007. There are no more Seamanship 101/102 manuals. (21 Jun 07)
Corrections to Seamanship Student and Instructor Manuals
Several changes should be made to the Seamanship 2007 Student and Instructor Manuals. The changes are listed in this PDF (11KB) document. (11 Jun 07)
Seamanship 2007 Instructor Manual Correction
A correction must be applied to the Seamanship 2007 Instructor Manual. In Section 8, page 148, the table for mechanical advantage shows 10 lbs for each example. It should show 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 lbs. (19 Apr 07)
Seamanship 2007 CD Requirement
In order to view the imbedded animation on the Seamanship 2007 CD, you must have the free Flash player installed on your computer. If you do not have that software, you need to download and install the free Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Flash player. The CD is not defective if it opens and on the animation slides it simply forwards to the next slide or brings up an error message. It just has not found the needed software. Download and install the Flash player and the CD should work fine. (14 Apr 07)
CD Problem
Due to a duplication problem, some copies of the Seamanship CD have a corrupt Chapter 1. Download a clean Chapter 1 PowerPoint file from the Downloadable Material section of this web page. (14 Mar 07)
Seamanship Description
Building on the basics of recreational boating presented in the public boating courses, Seamanship adds foundational information for continuing boater education. The course contents should facilitate knowledge development for increased safe operation of recreational boats and provide the basis for completion of USCG licensing examination. Emphasis within the course has been placed on higher level boating skills, rules of the road, and marlinspike.
Viewing course material in Microsoft Power Point® presentation may require one of the more recent software versions. There are embedded animations. Also the Power Point viewer may not work. Due to the extensive use of graphics, overhead slides will not be available.
Downloadable Material
More changes should be made to the Seamanship 2007 Student and Instructor Manuals. The changes are listed in this PDF (10KB) document. (29 Mar 08)
Several changes should be made to the Seamanship 2007 Student and Instructor Manuals. The changes are listed in this PDF (11KB) document. (11 Jun 07)
Because of a problem duplicating the Seamanship CD, the first chapter's PowerPoint file (16796KB) is available for download. The other chapters' files are available on the CD. (14 Mar 07)
Questions or Comments?
If you have any questions or comments about the Seamanship course, please contact the National Boat Handling Committee chairman by e-mail, phone or postal service mail. Please be sure to keep your SEO and/or DEO advised of any correspondence you may have with the National committee. Addresses for the National BHCom chairman are listed in The ENSIGN and on the Committee Chairpersons page.
We will try to answer your questions as soon as possible, but please allow 5 working days for an answer.
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