OCEAN-YACHTING SPECIALIST TRAINING

OCEAN-WEATHER COURSE

Ocean-Yachting weather course is one of the most comprehensive maritime weather courses in the world.

Completion of the course will put in the mariner hands practical tools to for excellent detailed understanding of weather around the globe and make use of handy available tools and applications to gent and analyze weather patterns.



The course is intended to every mariner.



General

OCEAN WEATHER Price : 895 Euro

Method: Live-Online

Teaching Ratio: 12:1 

Assumed Knowledge: None

Duration: ~35 Hours

Minimum Candidates: 3

Costs Include:

  • Course Notes Book

Courses are non-residential, so accommodation is required in one of the many hotels or guest houses near the Centre. We can provide a list of recommendations. 

Course Modules

Highs and Lows Time: 0.5-1 hour                                  


Wind and pressure  Time: 2-3 hours 

  • Understanding  Pressure
  • Coriolis Effects\Force
  • Pressure gradient
  • Wind and Friction
  • Veering and Backing
  • Wind Gusts
  • Why stronger winds are developed in lows
  • Highs and Lows properties
  • Wind and isobars
  • Calculating Isobar distance
  • Surface wind speed at different latitudes

Wind Weather Models Time: 1-1.5 hours 

  • The simple Model
  • Three Cell Global Model

Ocean Waves and Swells  Time: 1-2 hours 

  • Ocean Waves
  • Wave Definitions
  • Ripples
  • Swell Vs Waves
  • Wave Speed

Clouds    Time: 0.5-1 hours 

  • Low Clouds (CL)
  • Mid Clouds (CM)
  • High clouds (CH)

Weather Forecast Models & Weather Map analysis         Time: 3-5 Hours

  • Weather Map types
  • What is a Weather forecast model
  • Global Knows models
  • Regional weather models
  • Ocean Models
  • Surface Weather Maps
  • Weather analysis process
  • Model weather Symbols
  • 500mb weather maps
  • Role of 500mb maps in route planning
  • Weather planning guide

Weather Planning Guides  Time: 1-2 hours 

  • World Ocean Currents
  • Golf stream Importance
  • Major Ocean Currents and their Contribution to weather

Strong Wind Systems   Time: 4-5 hours

  • Tropical disturbances
  • Forecast of strong wind systems
  • Shape and properties of fronts
  • Front types
  • Cold fronts
  • Warm fronts
  • Occluded fronts
  • How fronts create lows
  • The life of a low
  • Divergence and convergence
  • Types of lows
  • Extratropical Storms
  • Meteorological Bombs
  • Secondary lows
  • Upper level lows
  • Cutoff lows

Tropical Storms Hurricane Typhoons and Cyclones Time: 3-4 hours

  • Tropical Cyclones
  • ITCZ’s
  • Tracks and movements of tropical cyclones
  • Hurricane forecast
  • Classification of Tropical Cyclones
  • Tropical Disturbance
  • Tropical storms
  • Hurricane or Typhons
  • Hurricane or Typhons wind
  • Hurricane or Typhons pressure
  • Hurricane or Typhons EYE
  • Hurricane or Typhons Wall
  • Hurricane or Typhons size and duration
  • Hurricane or Typhons summary

Squalls    Time: 1-2 Hours

  • What Are Squalls
  • Characteristics of squalls
  • Squall Guidelines
  • Tactics to avoid squalls
  • Radar and Squalls
  • Probability of squalls

Sides Of Tropical Storms   Time: 1-2 hours                 Storm Avoidance Maneuvers  Time: 1-2 hours  

  • Ways to get weather reports
  • Plotting your heading in heavy weather
  • National Hurricane Center Projections

Apparent to True wind  Time: 0.5-1 hours   

Practical Weather Analysis 3-4hours

  • Windy
  • Weather Routing
  • Open CPN
  • Google Earth
  • ZY Grib