Description

Essential boating safety app includes:
- Safety information & practical boating tips
- Over 100 specially created custom graphics: illustrations, photos& diagrams
- Advice on preparation, equipment, communications & emergencyprocedures
- Tips on how to stay safe and prevent accidents happening
- For all seafarers, on yachts and powered boats
- Written & illustrated by a qualified & experiencedskipper

Safe Skipper is a quick reference tool intended for all those whogo to sea for pleasure, whether under sail or in poweredcraft.

The app features carefully researched safety information andpractical tips, with more than 100 graphic illustrations, photosand diagrams which have been produced specially for this app.

The app is in three main sections:

PREPARATION, including:
* Engine checks
* International regulations
* Man overboard drill
* Passage planning
* Rig check
* Safety briefing
* SOLAS V
* Tides
* Training
* Weather
and more

SAFETY, including:
EQUIPMENT
* Anchoring
* EPIRB
* Equipment checklists
* Fire extinguishers
* Fire prevention
* First aid kit
* Flares
* Life buoys
* Liferafts
* Personal Flotation Devices
* Spares
* Safety harnesses
* Tool kit
and

COMMUNICATIONS
* AIS
* DSC radio
* GMDSS
* Inmarsat C
* Signals
* Morse code
* Navtex
* SSB radio
* VHF radio
and more

DISTRESS & EMERGENCIES, including:
* Abandon ship
* Dismasting
* Distress signals
* Engine failure
* Fire fighting
* Getting a tow
* Helicopter rescue
* Holed hull
* MAYDAY
* Medical emergency
* SAR signals

...and more - over 75 sections & sub-sections in total.

Written and illustrated by Simon Jollands, a RYA qualifiedyachtsman. Among his many book, tv and dvd media production creditsis Serious Fun a dvd on marine safety which he produced anddirected for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and was inpart the inspiration for the Safe Skipper app.

Have fun afloat:

All of us who go to sea for pleasure go to have fun. Keeping safeis of prime importance and increases the enjoyment for everyoneaboard, whatever their ability or age. We all know there are risksinvolved and that accidents can and do happen, whether you areracing across oceans or cruising in quiet coastal waters.

To avoid accidents happening in the first place or to prevent a badsituation becoming worse requires good training, a clear head andthe ability to make decisions quickly.

Safe Skipper provides advice on preparation, checklists, equipment,communications and emergency procedures. The app will be updated ona regular basis and the developer team will always welcomesuggestions from our users for further topics to include in futureupdates.

Thanks for downloading Safe Skipper and we hope you will find it auseful aid to staying safe and having fun afloat. You can see ourwebsite, with more boating tips, at www.safe-skipper.com

UK