Course Outlines

AM

• Introduction.
• Clothing & Buoyancy.
• Familiarisation & Joyride.
• Controlling speed & stopping.
• Sailing on a reach & tacking.
• Parts of the boat.

• Knot work.
• Other water users.
• Collision Regulations.
• Rigging.
• Sailing upwind.
• Tacking.
• Sailing downwind.
• Gybing.

• Points of Sail and No Go Zone.
• 5 Essentials.
• Triangular course.
• Boat and Personal Safety equipment & distress information.
• Aware of First Aid.

• Weather, reefing & Beaufort.
• Coming alongside.
• Man Over Board.
• Practise practical skills.

Lunch

PM

• Points of sail & No Go Zone.
• Sailing upwind.
• Tacking.
• Sources of weather.
• On/Offshore winds.

• Launching and recovery theory & practical.
• Sailing round a triangular course.
• Capsize recovery.

• Aerodynamic theory.
• Inland Sailing advice.
• Coming alongside.
• Leaving and returning to a jetty.
• Lee shore dangers.
• Knot work.

• Sea Sailing and Tides.
• Racing and applying rules of the road.

AM

• Introduction
• Rigging
• Practice applying the 5 Essentials on all points of sail
• Recap points of sailing and 5 Essentials

• Revisit "homework" weather
• Depending upon weather and students ability
• Recap skills needing practice from the previous day
• Racing to include Starting & Finishing procedures
• Starting Practice & Simple Racing Rules

Lunch

PM

• Rules of the Road and Collision Regulations
• Man Over Board
• Leaving and returning to a Beach, Jetty or Mooring
• "Dry Capsize" to avoid total inversion
• Tides
• "Homework" &133; Weather

• Further Recap if necessary and/or introduction to Sailing with Spinnakers, Seamanship skills or Performance Sailing (depending on weather, student's ability and requirements)
• Final debrief and "what next"
• Feedback

AM

• Introduction.
• Choosing the right boat, Insurance, Race organisation, Course/Starting sequence/Flags, Sailing instructions.
• Boat Preparation/Tuning.
• Rigging.
• Recap Level 2 practical skills.
• Boat handling - 5 essentials, speed control.
• Staring practice - use of transits, clear wind & where on the line.

• Recap racing rules and boat tuning theory.
• Boat on Boat tactics.
• Finishing - right end of the line.
• Short races to include everything cover.

Lunch

PM

• Upwind Sailing - Clear air, gusts & land effects.
• Downwind Sailing - Fastest course.
• Racing Rules - theory and practical of all racing rules.

• Recap theory.
• Practical racing - Regatta style races.
• Debrief.

AM

• Introduction.
• Rigging boats and spinnakers.
• Launching performance boats.
• Recap Level 2 practical skills.
• Using crew and equipment to good advantage (throughout every session).
• Hoists and drops.
• Safe zone.

• Apparent wind sailing.
• Hull shapes and performance.
• Sailing best course downwind.
• General upwind/downwind spinnaker practice.
• Introduction to racing.

Lunch

PM

• Sources of rigging and tuning information.
• Rigging and Tuning for different conditions.
• Hoists and drops and power zone.
• Gybing with spinnaker.
• Capsize recovery with spinnaker.

• Racing theory (courses).
• Racing practical.
• Refining all practical skills.
• Total inversion capsize theory.
• Recap all theory.
• Debrief.

AM

• Introduction.
• Rigging.
• Recap Level 2 practical.
• Heave to.
• Man Over Board.
• Introduction to rudderless sailing.
• Sailing Terminology.

• Weather - Beaufort scale, synoptic charts, interpreting forecasts and local effects.
• Rigging.
• Rudderless sailing.
• Reefing afloat.
• Leave and return to windward/leeward shore.
• Preparing a road trailer.

Lunch

PM

• Collision Regulations.
• Leaving and Returning to a Beach or Jetty.
• Man Over Board.
• Sailing Backwards.
• Centreboard-less.
• Knot work, heat sealing and whipping.

• Recap theory.
• Anchoring.
• Towing.
• Recap all practical elements.
• Inverted Capsize.
• Debrief.

AM

• Introduction.
• Making use of wind variation due to geographical features & gusts.
• Rigging and tuning.
• Recap Level 2 practical skills.
• 5 Essentials on all points of sail.

• Hull shapes and rig types & their effects on performance.
• 5 Essentials, upwind, downwind & spotting and using gusts.
• Use of spinnaker (if available).

Lunch

PM

• Sources of weather information, interpreting synoptic charts & barometric pressure.
• Sailing upwind & downwind spotting and using wind shifts and gusts.

• Recap theory.
• Continue with sailing practical skills.
• Capsize practical and total inversion theory.
• Debrief.

AM

• Introduction.
• Clothing & Buoyancy.
• Rigging.
• Launching.
• Paddling.
• Wind awareness.
• Steering & going about.

• Parts of the boat.
• Launching.
• Steering & going about.
• Speed control.
• Action in distress.
• Recovery & stowage.
• Water Confidence.

• Knot work.
• Rig & Launch.
• Speed control, steering & going about games.
• Call for assistance.
• Capsize Theory.

• Local Hazards & towing theory.
• Steering while being towed.
• Boat controls.
• Wind awareness & steering games.
• Stowage of gear.

• Fun Session for consolidation of skills.
• Games.
• Racing.

AM

• Recap Stage 1 theory & practical sessions.
• Sailing Reach to Reach.
• Tacking.
• Speed control.

• Clothing & No Go Zone/Points of sail.
• Can rig and launch.
• Control speed stopping.
• Sailing close reach & getting out of irons.
• Returning to beach.
• Parts of the sail.

• Spars, rigging, sail controls and foils.
• 5 Essentials.
• Shallow triangle (no gybing).
• Capsize recovery.
• Wind theory & telling someone ashore.

• Port vs Starboard.
• Terminology.
• On water practise of 5 essentials & points of sail.
• Shallow triangle with gybing.
• Knots.

• Dangers of local hazards.
• Consolidation games for upwind sailing.
• Basic racing.
• Stowage of gear.
• Recap theory.
• Question & Answer.

AM

• Introduction.
• Clothing & Buoyancy.
• Rigging.
• Launching.
• Paddling.
• Wind awareness.
• Steering & going about.

• Knot work.
• Rig & Launch.
• Speed control, steering & going about games.
• Call for assistance.
• Capsize Theory.

• Clothing & No Go Zone/Points of sail.
• Can rig and launch.
• Control speed stopping.
• Sailing close reach & getting out of irons.
• Returning to beach.
• Parts of the sail.

• Port vs Starboard.
• Terminology.
• On water practise of 5 essentials & points of sail.
• Shallow triangle with gybing.
• Knots.

Lunch

PM

• Parts of the boat.
• Launching.
• Steering & going about.
• Speed control.
• Action in distress.
• Recovery & stowage.
• Water Confidence.

• Local Hazards & towing theory.
• Steering while being towed.
• Boat controls.
• Wind awareness & steering games.
• Stowage of gear.

• Spars, rigging, sail controls and foils.
• 5 Essentials.
• Shallow triangle (no gybing).
• Capsize recovery.
• Wind theory & telling someone ashore.

• Dangers of local hazards.
• Consolidation games for upwind sailing.
• Basic racing.
• Stowage of gear.
• Recap theory.
• Question and Answer.

PM

• 5 Essentials & Points of sail.
• Rigging & Launching.
• Recap stage 2 skills.
• Upwind sailing.
• Knot work.

• Collision Regulations.
• Personal Safety.
• Upwind tacking & downwind Gybing.
• Triangular course.
• Practical 5 essentials practise.
• Basic Terminology.

• Wind & weather.
• 5 Essentials.
• Upwind games.
• Coming alongside a moored boat.
• Capsize Practise.
• Stowage of gear.
• Personal & Boat safety equipment.

• Basic Aerodynamic theory.
• Lee shore dangers.
• Coming alongside a moored boat.
• Man Over Board.
• Mooring Pick up.
• Knot work.

• Advise for inland sailors on coastal sailing.
• Importance of First Aid.
• Triangular course.
• Introduction to racing.
• Debrief.

AM

• 5 Essentials & Points of sail.
• Rigging & Launching.
• Recap stage 2 skills.
• Upwind sailing.
• Knot work.

• Wind & weather.
• Reefing a dinghy.
• 5 Essentials & Triangular course.
• Tacking and Gybing.
• Personal & Boat safety equipment.

• Basic Aerodynamic theory.
• Lee shore dangers.
• Coming alongside a moored boat.
• Mooring Pick up.
• Knot work.

• Recap Theory with Questions & Answers.
• Man Over Board.
• Practise all Practical skills.
• Towing practise (if not already covered).

Lunch

PM

• Collision Regulations.
• Personal Safety.
• Upwind tacking & downwind Gybing.
• Triangular course.
• Practical 5 essentials practise.
• Stowage of gear.

• Basic Terminology.
• Coming alongside a moored boat.
• Upwind games.
• Capsize Practise.
• Stowage of gear.

• Advise for inland sailors on coastal sailing.
• Importance of First Aid.
• Triangular course.
• Introduction to racing.
• Stowage of gear.

• Final recap of all Theory.
• Final recap of practical skills.
• Regatta style Race to finish course.
• Debrief.

AM

• 5 Essentials & Points of sail.
• Rigging and Launching.
• Communication.
• Triangular course.
• Knot work.

• Beaufort Scale.
• Boat set up and rig controls.
• Coming alongside.
• Upwind practise & use of Telltales.

• Tides.
• Man Over Board.
• Coming alongside.
• Triangular course.
• Knot work.

• Recap theory.
• Recap:
• Man Over Board,
• Coming alongside,
• leaving & returning to a jetty,
• Triangular course
• 5 essentials.

Lunch

PM

• Collision Regulations.
• Communication.
• 5 Essential practise.
• Stowage of gear.

• Synoptic charts.
• Leaving & returning beach and jetty in any wind direction.
• 5 Essentials.

• Total Inversion.
• Communication & 5 Essentials practise.
• Racing.

• Recap theory.
• Regatta racing.
• Debrief.