Calendar
Classes are scheduled whenever there are 2 or 3 students signed up, from May to September. Currently teaching the second session, space is available in early June for another group class. Classes are normally taught Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:15-8:15 pm, total of five classes per session.
Course Outline
Week 1
Introduction and Orientation
· Boarding the boat
· Safety Equipment and safe practices
· Weather, tides, local orientation, wind awareness
· Rigging the boat, knots, nomenclature/vocabulary drill
· Basic points of sail under main alone; tacking, jibing, figure 8
· Sailing with main and jib, proper trim on all points of sail, finding the upwind groove.
· Mooring, De-rigging and putting the boat away after sailing
Week 2
Close Quarters, Singlehanding, Docking
· Rules of the Road
· Sailing to a chosen point; stopping where you want
· Approaching and leaving a mooring
· Sailing the boat alone (for a short time)
· Docking and undocking under sail
· Handling difficult wind directions for docking and leaving the dock
Week 3
Person overboard recovery, Handling heavy weather, anchoring
· Figure 8 and quick stop techniques for MOB return
· Techniques for retrieval of heavy/unconscious victims
· Proper use of marine radio
· Reading the weather, predicting and preparing for adverse conditions
· Reducing sail, reefing, heaving to in heavy weather
· Fog strategies, sailing by the compass, basic navigation techniques
· Introduction to anchoring