Basic Keelboat Sailing
Prerequisites: None
A certified student can sail a boat up to 20' in light to moderate winds and sea conditions in familiar waters without supervision - no auxiliary power or navigation skills required. Includes a National Safe Boating Certificate approved by NASBLA and the U.S. Coast Guard to it meet all requirements for mandatory education and licensing for every US state.
Includes a written test (takes most students about 45 minutes)
I. Sailing Knowledge
- Identify parts of a sailboat and describe their functions.
- Define "points of sail" and other sailing terms.
- Apply Navigation Rules to prevent collision. Identify the "stand-on" and "give-way" boats in various situations.
- Describe actions appropriate near commercial shipping and how to maintain proper look-out.
II. Sailing Skills
- Select and properly use a personal flotation device and clothing for various weather conditions.
- Set basic sails with appropriate luff tensions, coil and hang halyards and other lines.
- Act as helmsperson/skipper and crew and use proper commands and responses while sailing under various wind directions. Sail a windward-leeward course, tack, jibe, and steer by the lee without jibing.
- Lower, fold and stow sails properly.
- Describe and demonstrate the actions to be taken by a helmsperson/skipper if a person falls overboard. Describe how to get an exhausted person aboard.
- Properly secure a sailboat to a dock with limited movement and fenders.
- Describe the function of and tie 6 basic knots within time limits.
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