THIRD CLASS SEAMANSHIP

TASK 1 GENERAL SEA TERMS

Understand the meaning of the following Sea Terms:
Principal Parts of a Ship:
Stem Stern Bow Quarter
Beam Starboard Side Port Side Forward
Aft Fore & Aft Line Athwartships Midships
Forecastle Quarterdeck Waist Upperdeck
Bridge Bulkhead Brow Deckhead
Draught Galley Gangway Heads
Hatch Ladder Deck Bilge

Miscellaneous Sea Terms:
Adrift Belay Shipshape Way
Bearing Ahead Astern Abeam
Awash Relative Bearing On the Bow On the Quarter

TASK 2 BENDS & HITCHES
Revise the Bends & Hitches learned during your Part 1 training:

Figure of Eight
Round Turn & Two Half Hitches
Reef Knot

Practise and demonstrate the following Bends & Hitches, and briefly explain their use:
a. Rolling Hitch
b. Sheet bend
c. Double Sheet Bend
d. Timber Hitch
e. Clove Hitch
f. Bowline
g. Fisherman’s Bend

TASK 3 GENERAL ROPE WORK
Demonstrate and practise the following and briefly explain the reason for their use:

Coiling down a rope
Cheesing down a rope
Faking and preparing (a rope) for running
Belaying on a cleat and/or a belaying pin
Elementary Safety Rules for handling Ropes and Hawsers
Construction and types of Natural Fibre Cordage
Make up and throw a Heaving Line
Recover and make up a heaving line to stow away
Make a West Country Whipping

TASK 4 GENERAL RIGGING
You should be able to explain and understand the following:

Parts of a Block
Types of Block (Metal/SRBF/Snatch/IIB)
Parts of a Tackle
Rig a Simple Tackle (Luff)
Witness and take part in a Rigging Evolution