Passage Planning
Course Pre-requisites: This is an advanced course. Participants should have at least the Day/Coastal Skipper level of navigation. An understanding of plotting courses and calculating tides is essential.
An advanced navigation course to plan cruises at home and abroad. Syllabus includes crew and boat preparation, destination research including pilotage, chartwork and shoreside. Navigational planning- including chartwork, tide work, best routes and alternative destinations. Met. information before and during trip, safety aspects, customs and legal requirements.
Course covers passages to West Cork/Kerry, Scilly Isles, South Coast of England, Brittany and how to set up a passage plan for any voyage. Particiapants may book a package of 4 evenings or individual evenings.
Eddie English has been sailing these waters for over 30 years and has a detailed knowledge of these areas. Share in this knowledge and make your boating safer and more enjoyable.
Eddie English Blog
Why did the Costa Concordia sink?
The town of Cobh has been a port of call for ocean liners for over 150 years - now about 60 liners visit Cork Harbour each year- we all love the liners! Everybody in the maritime community was shocked last Friday night with the news of the grounding of the massive Italian cruise liner the Costa Concordia. I spent the weekend trawling the web to try to find out what really happened - this blog is the tragic story of the last voyage of the Costa Concordia on Friday the 13th of January 2012.
