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Level 2
Credits 4
Purpose This unit standard is an introductory unit standard for people planning to work in the marine industry.
People credited with this unit standard will be able to: identify external boat fittings; identify boat rigging fittings; identify internal boat fittings; and identify fastenings used on boats.
Subfield Boating Industries
Domain
Status
Status date
Date version published
Boatbuilding
Registered
12 December 2008
12 December 2008
Planned review date
Entry information
31 December 2013
Open.
Accreditation Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB) Boating Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference 0136
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do
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Special notes
This is an introductory unit standard for trainees requiring introductory boat knowledge. It is intended that assessment would require candidates to identify fittings and fastenings from pictures.
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Element 1
Identify external boat fittings.
Performance criteria
1.1 External fittings are identified in accordance with common use terminology.
Range includes but not limited to – cleat, winch, hatch, block, ventilator, fairlead, chock, bow fitting, stemhead fitting, stanchion, lifeline, pulpit, pushpit, bow rail, quarter rail, mast collar, navigation lights, bollard, chainplate, clutch, hinge, catch, hasp and staple, icebox, boarding ladder, shore-power inlet, toe rail, belting, rope tail bag, compass, pedestal, windlass, pad eye, u bolt, strainer, skin fitting, strut, propeller shaft, rudder, rudder stock, tiller head fitting, tiller, pintle, gudgeon.
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Element 2
Materials suitable for external boat fittings are identified in terms of their resistance to deterioration and appearance.
Identify boat rigging fittings.
Performance criteria
2.1 Boat rigging fittings are identified in accordance with common use terminology.
Range includes but not limited to – rigging screw, spreader, shackle, snap shackle, talarit, swague, gooseneck, slide, tang, traveller, track.
2.2 Materials suitable for boat rigging fittings are identified in terms of their resistance to deterioration and appearance.
Element 3
Identify internal boat fittings.
Performance criteria
3.1 Internal boat fittings are identified in accordance with common use terminology.
Range pull, tower-bolt, casement latch, butt hinge, faucet, drain, hand pump, barometer, switchboard, stove, refrigerator, head, shower, nav light, handhold, table pedestal, door hook, latch, hand bilge pump, flush pull ring, gas control panel.
3.2 Materials suitable for internal boat fittings are identified in terms of their resistance to deterioration and appearance.
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Element 4
Identify fastenings used on boats.
Performance criteria
4.1 Fastenings used on boats are identified according to configuration type.
Range screw, bolt, machine screw, set screw, track bolt, self tapping screw, coach bolt, rivet.
4.2 Fastenings used on boats are identified according to head type.
Range round, countersunk, raised, hex, socket.
4.3 Fastenings used on boats are identified according to drive type.
Range pozi, square, slotted, phillips, allen, hex, rivet.
4.4 Suitable fastenings are identified for a range of fitting applications in terms of fastening configuration, head type, drive type, and material type.
Range fittings include but are not limited to – mooring cleat, light fitting, clutch, door hook, winch, switchboard, mast fitting.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Boating Industry Training Organisation training@bia.org.nz
if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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