Ultimate Voyage Preparation
In this video series I will be revealing the real gems that underpin a successful comfortable voyage covering 5 topics:
- Comfortable cruising strategies
- Mindset required for long voyages
- Calm crisis management
- Effective communication on-board a sailing vessel
- Seamanship is an attitude.
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Life hacks for Cruising Sailing and a way of thinking that avoids the most common problems underway.
Comfortable Cruising Strategies:
- Choosing a suitable vessel.
- Planning Your route carefully utilizing good resources.
- Life onboard underway.
- Morale, the necessity of routines and emotional wellbeing onboard.
- Watchkeeping routines optimal for comfort and adequate rest.
- Anchoring comfortably.
Mindset required for long voyages:
- Evasive awareness.
- How to reframe challenges into a growth mindset .
- The benefits of a support network at sea.
- The importance of Maintaining physical fitness and routines.
- How to practice and implement stress-management techniques.
- How problem-solving skills benefits emotional regulation.
- Cultivating a positive attitude to bad situations resilience, adaptability, and mental preparation all geared towards being at sea.
- Managing your emotions, staying focused, and maintaining a positive attitude even in the face of adversity.
Calm crisis management
- How to “panic slowly”, responding not reacting.
- How to assess the situation.
- How to communicate with crew and delegate tasks with certainty, prioritizing safety.
- How to take action and the steps involved to be most effective in addressing the crisis.
- Debriefing the crew.
- Using an acronym in order to remember the priorities in a crisis.
Effective Communication On-board
- The importance of a chain of command.
- communication protocols.
- Active listening.
- Clear delegation.
- concise language.
- Gaging the need for moral boosts with team talks.
- Responding well as a team player as a crew member.
Seamanship is an attitude
- safety
- responsibility and respect for the ever changing conditions.
- You will learn how to cultivate the right mindset for effective seamanship
