Small Boat Handling and Tactics

Courses offered:

1. +Basic Boat Handling skills for Fire / Law Enforcement Personnel
   

2. +Search and Rescue Patterns, plotting and chart reading
   

3. +Realistic Drills and Exercises
   

Topics covered:

1. +Boat Outfitting -- what to carry
   

2. +Day vs night operations
   

3. +Skill limitations and equipment limitations
   

4. +Team work and ICS
   

5. +Inland vs Coastal waterways, and Swift water vs Still water
   

6. +Maneuvering, anchoring, mooring, coming alongside
   

7. +Towing, and escorting
   

8. +Emergency Action Drills (Man Overboard, Engine fire)
   

9. +Team Integration -- working with other teams, divers, and / or K9’s
   

10. +Communications and Navigation Rules
    

11. +Safe Boating -- thoughts to ponder with regards to SOPs or SOG’s
    

Randy Ashmore is a retired Boatswains-mate, and a qualified Coxswain on many small boats.  He has spent a good part of his career teaching and developing others skills in small boat operations. His unique approach and years of experience operating boats in heavy weather, swift water, or far offshore have given him an ability that he gladly shares with his students finding them their niche in safe boat operations.

What type of water do you have in your Area??

Is your area in a flood plane??

Do you have a boat??

Does your team know how to operate your boat to its fullest potential??

Please contact us and see what one of our courses can do for you.