Day Sailing L1

SECTION A – THEORY

1. Controls of a Sail Boat
2. Points of Sailing
3. How does a boat sail and stop at will?
4. Ropework – Reef knot, bowline, clove hitch and fisherman’s bend.
5. Rigging a sail boat.
6. Tacking & Gybing – Handling the fore and main.
7. Tacking and Gybing practice.
8. Leaving and returning to a mooring

SECTION B – SAILING, BOAT HANDLING

1. Sailing Safely – The Man, His boat and the Weather, all together make or break.
2. Capsize and recovery drill.
3. Prepare a sail Plan.
4. Harnessing the wind and water to your boat.
5. Sail a triangular course.
6. What to carry as a kit?
7. How to practice sailing.