Basic Crew Standard

OBJECTIVE

At the completion of the Basic Crew Standard you should be able to act as competent crew while cruising safely in familiar waters aboard a sloop rigged keel boat of 6 - 10 metres in moderate wind and sea conditions by day.

PREREQUISITES

None.

ASHORE KNOWLEDGE - Basic Crew Standard

This section is the same as the Basic Cruising Standard sections I through VII, Performance Objectives 1-30.

AFLOAT SKILLS

(18 hours minimum) Boat should be a 6 - 10 metre, sloop rigged keel boat.

Section VIII: Preliminaries

You must be able to:

1. Demonstrate on land the correct method of putting on a personal flotation device in the water; 
2. Demonstrate the correct use of a heaving line; 
3. Carry out a check of the boat's gear and equipment in accordance with Sail Canada Cruising Boat Checklist and demonstrate use and care of onboard equipment; 
4. Select, bend on, check and stow sails; 
5. Coil a line and secure (sea coil); 
6. Properly stow lines and fenders; 
7. Demonstrate how to belay a cleat; 
8. Demonstrate safe winch techniques with particular emphasis on:
   a) possible high strain on sheet/halyard
   b) how to avoid riding turns (and how to clear)
   c) position of hands/fingers
   d) winch handles - fitting and removal. 

Section IX: Manoeuvring Under Power

You must be able to:

9. Start auxiliary engine on boat, observing commonly accepted safety practices; 
10. Come to a full stop with stern one half boat length away from a buoy using reverse. (The objective of this manoeuvre is to know how much distance is required to bring a boat to a full stop. Vessel is to be kept on a straight course while the manoeuvre is being carried out); 
11. Manoeuvre a boat under power to a position alongside and parallel to a dock portside to and starboardside to not more than two feet off without the aid of lines, without the stern passing a given mark at any time during the manoeuvre; 
12. Apply Rules 5 through 18 of the Collision Regulations as applied to a boat under power; 
13. Handle the ground tackle or assist in the lowering and setting of an anchor under power in water more than 3 meters in depth while at the helm or assisting under the direction of a skipper. The anchor must not drag when tested under engine power at half-throttle astern; 
14. Raise anchor under the direction of the skipper with boat ready and get under way, at the helm or handling ground tackle, using commonly accepted practices under power. 

Section X: Boat Handling Under Sail

You must be able to:

15. Hoist the basic sails while under power/at anchor, or mooring (head to wind, main sail first), set appropriate luff tensions, and flake halyards; 
16. Apply Rules 5 through 18 of the Collision Regulations as applied to a boat under sail; 
17. Act as crew responding to commands while demonstrating the proper techniques of beating, reaching and running; tacking and gybing; heading up, bearing away, luffing and heaving to; using the following commands and responses:
    

    Commands	Responses	Alert
    "Head Up"
    "Bear Away"
    "Ease Sheets"
    "Harden Sheets"
    "Ready About"	"Ready"	"Helms-Alee"
    "Ready to Gybe"	"Ready"	"Gybe-Ho"

18. Demonstrate as crew, trimming of sails either in response to course changes or wind shifts and prepare sails for tacking or gybing with verbal response "Ready"; 
19. Reduce sail by reefing and shake out a reef while keeping boat under control, either at the helm or controlling the sails, as commanded by the skipper; 
20. Demonstrate in response to the skipper's actions/commands, while under sail, the Triangle Method Crew Overboard procedure; 
21. Bring the boat into irons, unassisted, in response to a Crew Overboard situation. Lower sails ensuring on-board control of all lines, start the engine, and manoeuvre the boat under power to a successful Crew Overboard return.
    NOTE: Both Performance Objectives (PO's) 20 and 21 above must be completed in reasonable time without losing sight of the victim or marker in the water; 
22. Lower sail while under power or at anchor or a mooring. 

Section XI: Making Fast and Snugging Down

You must be able to:

23. Secure a boat to a dock to prevent excessive movement and set out fenders correctly; 
24. Stop auxiliary engine and secure when departing boat for night, observing commonly accepted safety practices; 
25. Demonstrate how to secure a boat for the night using appropriate dock lines; 
26. Tie the following knots, bends and hitches within 30 seconds each: 

    a) Reef knot	d) Bowline
    b) Figure eight	c) Clove hitch
    c) Double sheet bend	f) Round turn and two half hitches.