What’s the best IRPCS resource?

I found something online a few years ago (sorry I can’t remember) that asked the questions and scored you. Flash cards if you have someone to keep bashing through them. It’s the hardest section by far with a very high pass mark. Good luck keep persevering.
 
This has been asked a few times before and the seaman’s guide is what most people recommend but it depends on how you like to learn. The seaman’s guide doesn’t seem to assume a great deal of academic ability and comes from an era where rote learning was the norm. I found it far easier just to read the actual regs through a few times. These are an appendix to the seaman’s guide but you can buy them on their own as the “pocket book of the international regulations for the prevention of collisions at sea: a seaman’s guide”. Much cheaper: £3.50 vs £12.50.

Flash cards are great. Buy them. Test yourself on the train to work and get your mates to test you in the pub. Repeatedly.
 
Agree with others. The Seaman's guide seems to be the most definitive. I found it not great for learning though preferring a number of apps and flashcard packs.

Also just found this website which looks good:
http://ecolregs.com/index.php?lang=en

Both a basic and an advanced version which seems to be for commercial use.
 
adamlang said:
Agree with others. The Seaman's guide seems to be the most definitive.
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Surely MSN 1781 is the most definitive :)

Honestly I think the best Colregs "learning resource" for me, apart from just applying them in practice in busy waters like the Solent, has been the some of the debates and talked-through situations in these forums over the years.

Pete
 
prv said:
Honestly I think the best Colregs "learning resource" for me, apart from just applying them in practice in busy waters like the Solent, has been the some of the debates and talked-through situations in these forums over the years.
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I wouldn't argue if the objective was learning how to apply the colregs in real world situations (which obviously we all need to be able to do) but purely for the YM theory which Yeoman_24 is prepping for I'd say a comprehensive knowledge of the regs themselves is all you need. It's been a while since I did it but I don't recall any grey areas in the questions, questions about the meaning of "impede" or anything that would require me to cite windsor-roanoke :-)
 
laika said:
I wouldn't argue if the objective was learning how to apply the colregs in real world situations (which obviously we all need to be able to do) but purely for the YM theory which Yeoman_24 is prepping for I'd say a comprehensive knowledge of the regs themselves is all you need.
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Fair point.

Lights and shapes in particular tend to need specific memorisation rather than learning by doing; for me this has been in the form of a series of mnemonics picked up over the years. For example:

"Red over white, frying tonight" - a fishing boat.
Same rhyme fits for green over white, because that's a kind of fishing boat too.
Distinguish between them - a trawler is easier to deal with because you know his nets are behind him, so he's green for easy. Other gear could be anywhere, so it's red for a warning.

Restricted in ability to manoeuvre - you too would be restricted in your ability to manoeuvre if you had a spiky diamond in between your balls.
At night the diamond is shiny white and the balls are sore and red.

Not under command is because of a balls-up (I think a lot of people use this one :) ). Two balls up.
They're the same balls as for RAM, so they're still red.

A pilot wears a white-topped officer's hat over his red face from climbing up the ladder.

The three red lights for constrained by draught simply mirror the straight-up-and-down cylinder shown in daytime - though I don't know of a specific mnemonic for the cylinder itself.

Pete
 
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