QM-7

1. QM-7 Quartermaster Boat Handling Instructors: George Crowl

2. Course Outline • a. Take charge of the craft used by your ship and give all commands to the crew for picking up a mooring buoy and properly mooring the vessel in several wind and current situations. • b. Demonstrate and teach the principles of springing into and out from a dock, from both bow and stern, using an engine depending on the type of vessel used by your ship. • c. Teach Ordinary and Able boat handling requirements to a crew.

3. QM-7a a. Take charge of the craft used by your ship and give all commands to the crew for picking up a mooring buoy and properly mooring the vessel in several wind and current situations.

4. Mooring Buoys • Balls, cans, spars – white with blue band • Often have identification of some kind • Usually a fee, must be sized to your vessel • Usually better than anchoring, but beware! • Don't use private moorings without permission

5. Typical Mooring Layout • Block or mushroom anchor • Heavy chain to be lifted by movement • Light chain to attach • Buoy to floatchain • Pennant fromball bottom ortop • Line from vessel

6. Picking Up a Mooring • Planning • Preparation • Practice

7. Planning • Mooring position • Wind and current • Which two people on the bow? • Hand signals or radios for speed, distance, direction to the mooring • Is the anchor in the way? • Near pass the check it out?

8. Preparation • Don life jackets • Boat hook at bow • Gloves on (barnacles) • Short line handy

9. Practice - Motoring • Approach very slowly • Approach from dead downwind / current • Shift to neutral to come to a dead stop with bow over the mooring buoy • Pick up the pennant with boat hook • Attach line as required • Most common mistake – approach too fast • Danger – fouling prop and rudder in mooring

10. Practice - Sailing • Gotta know your boat! • Come on a slow broad reach downwind of mooring • Release all sails, turn upwind into mooring, coast to a stop at mooring • Requires good crew coordination

11. After Attaching • Drift back and verify clear of all other vessels • If mooring buoy is dragged under, lengthen the attaching line • Check possible chafing • To depart – release bridle OR • Pull up to pennant and release

12. QM-7b b. Demonstrate and teach the principles of springing into and out from a dock, from both bow and stern, using an engine depending on the type of vessel used by your ship. (*You can demonstrate while teaching!)

13. Spring Forward Out of Dock • Lay a spring line frombow well aft • Motor forward, rudder toward the dock • Boat pivots • Rudder amidships, motor reverse out of dock

14. Spring Aft Out of Dock • Lay spring line from aftforward • Protect stern quarterwith fender • Turn rudder to dock, reverse, bow goes out • Center or right rudder,motor forward

15. Springing Into a Dock Space • Approach parallel to boat behind the space • Turn in 45° • Dock crew take springline to cleat well aft of bow (boat crew can do) • Boat crew pay out thruforward cleat • When positioned, turn rudder away from dock

16. Springing Aft into Dock Space • Similar to forward • Harder to control because of rudder ineffectiveness • May need a bow line to shore to bring bow in

17. QM-7c c. Teach Ordinary and Able boat handling requirements to a crew.

18. Ordinary 7a/b/c • You may use the Ordinary 7 lesson plan and PPT to give shore instructions • Take the Scouts to a marina, walk the piers, show them the various kinds of boats and rigging, quiz them on the types and on the vessel parts.

19. Ordinary 7d - Rowing • The PPT can serve as an introduction, but it is all in the actual on-water practice.

20. Able 7a – Motorboating • Again, you can use the PPT to introduce the topic, but the meat of the topic must be done hands-on

21. Able 7b – Docking Lines, etc. • You should not have to do any specific teaching for this lesson if you have been teaching this topic each time you have sailed. Determine if the Scout knows what is needed, then if not, fill in any gaps and see if it is retained when next sailing.

22. Background • Teach each set of requirements separately • If you taught these topics as an Ordinary, you may be able to count that. • You don't have to be Able to pass any part or all of this requirement • You don't have to do it over a short time, you can spread it out over months or years

23. Equipment Needed • Lesson plans for ORD-7, ABL-7 (as desired) • A marina is a good teaching aid • A rowboat, oars, life jackets, etc. • A power boat, motor, life jackets, etc.

24. Teaching EDGE • Lacks two things – objectives, motivation • You have to supply both • Objectives – simply put – the requirements • Motivation – why should a Sea Scout want to pass an advancement requirement? • YOU have to provide the motivation – how it will be used, it may be fun to do, whatever will persuade the Scout to do it • Give a pre-test? You may be able to sign them off as complete with part or all of it

25. Teaching EDGE (2) • Four main steps • Explain • Demonstrate • Guide • Enable

26. Explain • Need a rowboat to get from the dock to a mooring • Rowboats are very stable, have large capacity • Need to look over your shoulder, ORline up on a point behind you • Oars are operated in pairs • Stages are catch, pull, feather, recovery • Maneuver by differential pull

27. Demonstrate • Instructor shows how to row • Straight rowing • Break the stroke down, show catch, pull, feather, recovery • Show keeping a straight line • Turning • Backwatering • Explain what you are doing as you do everything

28. Guide • Change seats the proper way • Scout rows • Coach the Scout • Concentrate on one or two items at a time, more than that will just overload the Scout • As one skill is mastered, move on to another one that is not yet up to standard

29. Enable • Have the Scout row the crew out to the moored vessel • If possible, have the Scout do another real task in the rowboat

30. When do You Pass the Scout? • Policies vary between ships • Author's opinion: if the Scout can meet the requirements, s/he has practiced enough to pass the test again. This is a psychomotor skill that will come back quickly if needed. • Other skills, perhaps knot tying, should be demonstrated several times by the Scout before passing.

31. Questions?