SYCBA Courses
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Title: Adult Keelboat Basic Skills 2
Course Code: 47396
Date: June 5th, 2010
Time: 09:00:00
Price: $350
Course Type: adults
Places Available: 0
Course Dates and Times
Saturday 5th June, 9am - 3.30 pm
Saturday 12th June, 9am - 3.30 pm
If a day is cancelled due to bad weather the makeup date is Saturday TBC.
Category description:
Consolidating from the Adult Keelboat Basic Skills 1 course, which is a prerequisite, this course is intended to expand upon the skills and knowledge necessary to rig and sail a small keelboat to the best advantage, using a variety of techniques under minimal guidance.
This course comprises of two, six hour sessions (over two successive weeks) and will be delivered through a combination of classroom and on-water work in a Beneteau 7.5 Keelboat.
Performance Areas:
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 including:
- 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 and helming with minimal guidance
Man overboard (MOB) procedures and drills, towing procedures
Launching and recovery
- Coming alongside to a fixed/anchored structure
- Launching and recovery of craft.
Sailing Theory and background
- Avoiding collisions
- Right-of-way rules
- Power/sail right
- Port/starboard
- Windward/leeward
- Keeping to the right of channels
- Overtaking vessels
Meteorology and Winds, tides and currents
- Weather awareness for safe inshore sailing
- Gust and lulls
- Tides - times between tides
- Reading tide tables
- Direction of tidal flow
For further details please contact the Boating Academy on 9599 0922 or email us