City of London Training Site

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THIS IS PART OF THE TRAINING PROCESS.                   TRAINING STARTS RIGHT HERE!

Seamanship TRAINING and COURSES Spring 2008.   MVS City Of London
Gravesend Sailing  DA12 2RN and Gravesend Sea School, Denton

1          Sea Safety:                 Sat. Feb.9th     2000                      done!

2          Lifejackets.                Sun.Feb.10th   1000 - 1400.          done!

3          RYA Short Range VHF – Sat. Feb.16th 0900-1700 - £62.00 inc Certification

4          RYA 1st Aid - 8th March 9.00 - 18.00 - £40.00

5          Fire Course at Sea School if interested.

Courses at CoL unit                           (in the classroom or on board as appropriate)

Mon.4th Feb: John Boran – Introduction to Navigation  Task-log 1.6.1.    Done

Mon.11thFeb: ShaunWall - Intro. to Comms   Task-log 5.1  &  5.2            Done

Mon.18^th Feb: Chris- Outboard Maintenance ... Task-log 1.7                   Done

Mon.25th Feb: Bill Edwards -Intro to Seamanship – Task log 1.5

A “Try Dive” is to be arranged after checking dates with BSAC

 Personal safety.       March?  Roby / Bill date T.B.A         Task-log 1.2

Intro to Navigation. March? John Boran?                            Task-log 1.6.2.

Tell Robert Woodhouse or Don Downer which course you need to attend  or which further training you need

to advance your Task-log so that they can arrange it.

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Data from task-books needs to be logged centrally on-going.

Try to have your Task-Book with you on all unit duties

You can never know when an update may present itself.

Thanks to Don Downer and Ian Foreman for arranging these dates and courses

Thanks to John Boran and Bill for the training nights.

pv Robert Woodhouse.

 
Training courses at Gravesend SC further your Task-log. 1.2.6 and 1.2.7

The RNLI booklet and DVD you got at the end covers most your task-book up to at least module 17!

Training is moved into top gear with a provisional schedule in place for the next six weeks.
Training scheduling and management leaders:  pv Robert Woodhouse & POV Don Downer
12 new entrants (now probationers) inducted Jan 28 by LV Bill Edwards.
5 probationers introduced to chart navigation Feb 4 by AV John Boran.
10 members all grades sat in on Introduction to Comms. on Feb 11.
8 probationers completed 1.2.6 and 1.2.7, 1.2.9  at Gravesend under Ian Dunkley RNLI
The Sea safety course at Gravesend was monitored by RVOThames.  This is a clickable link.
(You need to scroll a bit to get the whole picture, but it is a very nice picture of a very nice guy)
SIGNAL FROM RVO THAMES REF GRAVESEND.
"Congrats to all.
Teamwork and comms. exemplified by Saturday's Safety Awareness RNLI training.
More module units to be signed off! MVS rank is earned by completion of Task-Books.
HoU and RVOThames recognize the endeavour and the democratic process
[by which it is being achieved].
I learned a lesson last night [by sitting in].
Teachers and pupils are doing well,
developing a 'school of progression' in the Thames region."

For the record,  MVS attendence made almost a quarter of the 40 or so who attended what transpired to be a fascinating discourse. TonyB, PaulC, FrancM, IanF, ShaunW, SaffT, StevL, RobW, The attendees were presented with copies of the RNLI Safety at Sea dvd. Self-starters may address  further whole modules of MVS009 on the strength of the excellent instruction in the DVD particularly.

This site has a guestbook for those who might like to be more closely associated with the Service whose training the site represents.

Please feel free to click on the guestbook link and leave a comment or a contact.

Your message will be forwarded to the London unit, which will acknowledge your message or good wishes or whatever.

You may contact City of London CommsCadre by the duty mobile or e-mailing londonmvs@gmail.com

If you've surfed upon us, perhaps by Googling or indeed by invitation, welcome!

If by invitation (and that invitation would have been unsolicitied) please realise ..............

This is not an official MVS site.

The site is a private venture by a member of London Unit aimed at new entrants and people who may have joined some time ago but did not actually get to complete their MVS003 induction course. It is also geared towards completion of the  MVS009  Task-book under new  terms of membership for 2008 and beyond and outlined in the signal of 15thOctober2007. 

it adopts a rather relaxed verbal methodology, as that is the way of the 21st century.
As part of training for the sea it is a good idea to have good colour vision.

If you can read the next sentence, you are starting well.

How-some-ever
If you want to learn about the sea,
its vagaries,
its savagery,
its complexities,
its gentleness,
its simplicity,
its beauty





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