Websites with animated COLREGs examples or exercises ?

[npf1]

Any good links appreciated ...

Thanks

 

[Rustyknight]

The site I linked to in the "My life in my hands" looks pretty good...... it sets out the rules, and gives their interpretation of the meaning of each rule (with animations in some places), and has little tests you can have a go at.

Website HERE

 

[Fergus]

May be a bit basic, but anyway..
http://www.rnli.org.uk/upload/complete_eCD/fscommand/pop_up_safety.htm

 

[MoodySabre]

I bought the fast track CD when I did YM theory. Excellent animated scenarios. Self tests can a bit laborious but it gets in the head. Best mark in the class. I even remember some of it.

 

[CodStewart]

These are great.
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[CodStewart]

The RNLI site is fantastic. I've been on it all day. As an absolute beginner, it's really helping me especially with regards to recognizing lights at night on vessels. The interactive nature of the website works so that I'm actually recalling what I've learnt. It's ace. Thanks so much for the link.

 

[CodStewart]

Awwwww.

This is a blast from the past.
Such innocence.
Such enthusiasm.

 

[CodStewart]

The RNLI site is fantastic. I've been on it all day. As an absolute beginner, it's really helping me especially with regards to recognizing lights at night on vessels. The interactive nature of the website works so that I'm actually recalling what I've learnt. It's ace. Thanks so much for the link.

I was on it all day.
Awwww. So sweet.
I wish I was still like this, instead of the kant with a boat that I've become.

 

[Lakesailor]

One of the better Col Regs sites is www.daka.co.uk

 

[ancientsailor]

Could try mine!

It's free ... used to sell discs until I found someone had copied them and was selling them for four times the price I was!

http://www.sailskills.co.uk/colregs/sailskills-site-map.html

Phil

 

[snowleopard]

Why animated? Will it make your learning any quicker or more thorough?

I know the guy who writes The Complete Course. It is often criticised for not having loads of whizzy graphics but learning isn't an arcade game and requires effort and concentration.

I can see that pictures and diagrams are easier to assimilate than bare text but do you really learn more from seeing the little boats move than from a diagram with arrows showing where they should steer?

 

[RobBrown]

The usual suspects

http://www.navrules.com/

http://www.cekay.net/SeaLights/

 

[gerry99]

Try http://www.sailtrain.co.uk

Clive Mason who developed the site is a great instructor and i speak from personal experience and the website he has developed is very comprehensive

 

[CodStewart]

Why animated? Will it make your learning any quicker or more thorough?

I know the guy who writes The Complete Course. It is often criticised for not having loads of whizzy graphics but learning isn't an arcade game and requires effort and concentration.

I can see that pictures and diagrams are easier to assimilate than bare text but do you really learn more from seeing the little boats move than from a diagram with arrows showing where they should steer?

Yes, I do. Even though I don't play arcade games and abhor all manner of 'gaming'.

Really? One needs effort and concentration to learn things like this?

 

[Elessar]

Why animated? Will it make your learning any quicker or more thorough?

I know the guy who writes The Complete Course. It is often criticised for not having loads of whizzy graphics but learning isn't an arcade game and requires effort and concentration.

I can see that pictures and diagrams are easier to assimilate than bare text but do you really learn more from seeing the little boats move than from a diagram with arrows showing where they should steer?

Totally agree.

 

[ancientsailor]

IMO this debate about pictures, animations and text may simply be an individual thing (I have heard it called "preferred learning style").

Some seem have a more visual memory - others more text or number-based. Some even like to hear. I have had queries from people who want audio-based ColRegs. Some like to see things move - an animation of a four-stroke engine easier than a series of pictures for example (I know I am not entirely comparing like with like there!)

Personally, I incline to be more visual. I don't remember the four-digit security codes to get into the various offices and stores at work. I do remember the pattern the numbers make on the keypads the first time I use them. It's not conscious - just happens that way.

I could remember the number if I had to (I use ATMs) - it's just the patterns go into memory.

Some people @ work cannot see the patterns. They use the numbers or even rhymes, 4 maids went a-milking, 5 sheep as well ...