Performance Cruising (Monday - Friday)
This non liveaboard course will fine tune your sailing and cruising skills to maximize your boat's performance. A great skills building program.
- Safety gear
- Helming
- Sail trim & shape
- Docking & Mooring
- Anchoring, types & uses
- Sailing without a rudder
- Sailing backwards
- Maneuvering in tight places
- Overboard recovery
- Heavy weather sailing
- Reefing
- Heaving to
- Equipment failure
- Rules of the road
- Distress signals
- Navigation
- Weather & current
- Introduction to spinnaker
- Spinnaker sets, gybes & drops
- Intro to boat systems
30 hours on the water
4 classroom hour
Tuition: One Person $995, Two or more $925 each, Alumni $895
Prerequisites: Students should be able to day sail a boat with confidence and as a helmsperson be able to tack, jibe, sail on a designated point of sail and trim the sails appropriately.
Boat Used: J/24