Sail and crew a 22' to 26' sloop-rig keelboat with outboard engine, in San Francisco Bay, with moderate to heavy winds and sea conditions.
Cost: $295 Location:Clipper Yacht Harbor, Sausalito. Note: Some classes may have other meeting locations. Prerequisites:Membership, Basic Keelboat 1, and/or minimum 48 hrs sailing experience, at least 32 hrs on a tiller.
Sessions consist of 2 day on the water instruction running from 9 am to 4 pm.
Session 1 - Sundays, February 7 & 14, 2010
Session 2 - Saturdays, March 20 & 27, 2009
Session 3 - Sundays, May 2 & 9, 2010
Session 4 - Saturdays, June 12 & 19, 2010
Session 5 - Sundays, July 25 & August 1, 2010
Upon successful completion sailor will demonstrate his or her knowledge of:
Safety: Crew responsibilities in COB, practical use of VHF-radio and mastery of on-air emergency call signs and responses, sanitary head operation, dismasting; sail repair, rig preventer, describe correct sail combinations to carry under various winds and seas, causes prevention and treatments for sea sickness, describe actions to be taken when sailing in the vicinity of commercial shipping
Motoring: Departure and return, docking with forward and reverse (side tie and slip), basic engine maintenance and refueling
Seamanship: Complete successive 360o turns with proper sail trim and commands, steer a sailboat by-the-lee for 100 yards without jibing, crew-over-board recovery-tacking and jibing, identify and interpret chart symbols, understanding longitude and latitude: plot and sail a course, basic understanding of set and drift and dead reckoning; types of ancors and set and retrieve a bow anchor, use of anchor on lee shore, formulate departure and return strategy
Theory: Sail Trim: Angle of attack, draft, twist and how the jib fairleads and traveler can affect trim
Functions: Describe immediate action to be taken if: Halyard shackle runs up the mast, engine cooling water stream shuts down, propeller fouls, mainsheet fouls winch, jib sheet runs through fairlead
SEA offers a range of adult classes. The goal of our series of courses is to help each student to become a competent sailing crewmember and skipper.
"Sailing alone soothes me because the sea is fair, not cruel. It judges only your ability. It does not care who or what you are. It does not ask your age, color, sex, address, sexual orientation, education or IQ, but only your competence. It requires only that you can sail. If you can, you survive. If you can't, better stay ashore. That's fair, more fair than most of us experience on land...and refreshing."
