Day Sailing L1

Day Sailing L1

Duration: 3 sessions of 4 hours each. Total 12 hours of instructions.

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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.

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