Driving for most people is a kind of enjoyment, modern yacht control system is more advanced and flexible, so the international restrictions on yacht driving qualifications are relatively loose.
Sailing a yacht is actually very simple, even easier than driving a car.
Yachting is a kind of enjoyment for most people. The modern yachting control system is more advanced and convenient, so the international restrictions on yachting qualification are relatively loose.
Sailing a yacht is actually very simple, even easier than driving a car.
However, due to the need to have basic sailing knowledge and electromechanical knowledge, need to take into account the safety of the driver and other people’s boats, so the law or regulations to obtain the power of small boat driving license, can be driven yachts, the legal provisions are to ensure the basic safety protection of ocean navigation consideration.
Yachting skills are not simply refers to the boat driving technology, but to be familiar with the situation on the water, with chart reading, ship stability, ship technology and machinery and other basic knowledge, but also have astronomy, geography, ocean and other theoretical knowledge.
A qualified yacht captain is only about 10% of his driving ability.
The remaining 90 percent of the ability is the comprehensive knowledge and experience of navigation other than driving skills.
Water driving different land road driving.
While the roads for cars are relatively clear, the waterways for yachts are much more complicated.
Sometimes the channel is wide, but there are rocks, shoals and other problems in the underwater bed and seabed, which are difficult to find with the naked eye.
On land roads, there are signs and lines, and traffic lights at intersections, so that motorists can see the road with their naked eyes.
Water traffic has no signs, no lines, no depth, no traffic lights, boat drivers are often can’t rely on to determine the fate of the human eye, still have to use a compass, divining instrument, satellite positioning system, and automatic driving system such as electronic instruments to sail, is often a negligence, or is a low-level mistake will lead to disaster accident.
The technical operation of yachting is simple and easy, but the ability to get on the road is much more complicated.
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Let’s talk about driving and licensing. Simple yacht driving is very simple and easy to learn.
Of course, this refers to small and medium yachts, large yachts to steer a lot of effort.
Yacht driving, Western countries generally divided into two levels of system, namely junior and senior two.
Captain and engineer are on a two-tier system.
The training and licensing process is generally run by private commercial organizations designated by the government. As long as you are over 16 years of age and have passed a medical examination, these organizations can assist you to obtain a power boat driving license.
However, unless you have already sailed a boat, most people who have a license will not be able to sail on their own.
So I would advise anyone who is preparing to qualify as a yachtmaster to take part in a range of practical courses offered by a senior skipper, and the yacht agency of the owner’s choice is obliged to provide such services, before embarking on the unfettered ride.
Part of the maritime bureau itself has the training of captain engineer, and all parts of the maritime bureau also have the designated agency training, in order to get the yacht driver’s license is best to attend some professional training of maritime business organization.
The water area traffic is different from the ground traffic, the training project is many and complex, the examination requirement is more strict.
Hainan, Guangzhou, Dalian, Shanghai and Zhejiang provinces on the Chinese mainland have already introduced independent maritime regulations related to yachts.
These regulations have taken the first step towards yacht maritime, and will definitely be upgraded to areas such as sea areas and sea rights.
Taking Shanghai as an example, Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration has formulated and promulgated the “Yachtsman Training, Examination and Certification Management Measures”, which stipulates that the yachtsman driving license examination is divided into theoretical part and practical part (referred to as writing section and operation section).
Private individuals must receive special training before taking the examination of the maritime sector.
The training takes at least half a month, and it takes another two months to get a license for a private yacht.
In addition, due to different waters and waterways in different regions, yachting driver’s licenses issued at present are often limited to local use, and it will take some time to realize mutual recognition of driver’s licenses and national use.
In addition to the problems of driver’s license training and examination to be standardized, yacht buyers are also faced with a series of difficulties such as waterway opening, port and wharf construction, standard inspection, water rescue and so on.
It takes time for private yachts to sail freely, which involves the sailing area of yachts.
Recreational yacht activity area as long as the water is wide enough, whether it is a river, lake, reservoir, coast, or offshore, are suitable for yachting activities.
With the exception of some areas for military use, protected reservoirs and water sources, nuclear power stations and oil terminals, the rest of the waters are full of pleasure for yachting.
The activity area of the yacht is not only affected by the environmental factors of natural geography and political geography, but also by the internal factors of the yacht itself. Generally speaking, the longer the size of the yacht, the larger the activity area.
Small speedboats operate within a radius of about 10 nautical miles offshore;
The activity area is generally within 8 hours offshore;
The activity area of super luxury yachts is within three days and nights offshore;
The activity area of sailing ships is the interoceanic sea area of 100 nautical miles.
In the Western countries with the popularization of ocean sports, there are reasonable distribution of supply stations (oil supply, water supply, power supply and food supply) along the coast, there are many yacht bay and yacht harbor for berthing ships, and there are perfect and powerful coastal ship patrol agencies and air service agencies.
These factors greatly extend the yacht’s endurance capacity and radius of activity range.
Yachts in Hong Kong and Macao can only “swim” around the world, not the coast of mainland China.
