SYCBA Courses
- Course Information
Title: Adult Keelboat Basic Skills 1
Course Code: 47396
Date: March 13th, 2010
Time: 09:00:00
Price: $350
Course Type: adults
Places Available: 2
Course Dates and Times
Saturday 13th March, 9am - 3.30 pm
Saturday 20th March, 9am - 3.30 pm
If a day is cancelled due to bad weather the makeup date is Saturday 27th March.
Category description:
This course is intended to provide students with the essential skills and knowledge necessary to rig and sail a small keelboat to the best advantage, using a variety of techniques under supervison.
This course comprises of two, six hour sessions (over two successive weeks) and will be delivered through a combination of classroom work and on-water work in a Beneteau 7.5 Keelboat. There are no pre requisites for the beginner course.
The Course Covers:
- Prepare and Plan - Group and individual safety awareness, clothing, safety equipment, sailing boundaries
- Rigging - wind awareness, awareness of parts of and rigging the training boat
- Ropework – Figure of eight, round turn and two half hitches, reef knot, bowline
- Sailing Techniques - Sailing to windward, reaching and sailing downwind
- Manoeuvres - tacking, gybing, points of sailing, basic heave-to, primary boat controls, positions on the boat
- Man overboard (MOB) procedures and drills, towing procedures
- Coming alongside to a fixed/anchored structure, launching and recovery of craft.
- Sailing Theory and Basic right-of-way Rules - avoiding collisions, power/sail right, port/starboard, windward/leeward, keep to the right of channels, overtaking vessels
- Weather awareness for safe inshore sailing
- Prepare and Plan - Group and individual safety awareness, clothing, safety equipment, sailing boundaries
The time schedule for each day is:
0900-1200
30 min lunch (not provided ~ can be purchased at SYC)
1230-1530
Recommended clothing ~ What to bring?
- Wetsuits are great all year round however if you do not have a wetsuit; wear thermal layers (not cotton) as a base layer. Mid and outer layers for all students should be a polar fleece or woollen jumper with a windbreaker over the top.
- Shoes or wetsuit booties are required to be worn at all times.
- A towel and change of clothes are recommended for after the class as showers facilties are available.
- During the colder months a beanie should be worn and throughout the warmer months a broad rimmed or peaked hat.
- Sunscreen.
- Wetsuits are great all year round however if you do not have a wetsuit; wear thermal layers (not cotton) as a base layer. Mid and outer layers for all students should be a polar fleece or woollen jumper with a windbreaker over the top.
For further details please contact the Boating Academy on 9599 0922, email us or click here.