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Adult Education Mondays - August - Introduction

  • 04 Aug 2014
  • 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Baltimore's Downtown Sailing Center
  • 12

Registration

(depends on selected options)

Base fee:
  • Consider joining as a crew level member. Benefits include 20% discount and participation in open sailing events.

Registration is closed

Monday August 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th, & Sept. 8th (rain date)

The course is designed to help new sailors feel comfortable on a boat and teach them the basic skills needed to competently crew on a small keelboat with an experienced skipper. An Introduction to Sailing course consists four Mondays from 5:30 PM until sundown. An experienced instructor and up to four students (usually only three students)are on the water in a Sonar or J/22. Sonars and J/22's are keelboats which are safe (non-capsizable), comfortable and fun.

  • Introduction to the DSC
  • Safety
  • Parts of the Boat
  • Wind Awareness
  • Boarding the Boat
  • Crew and Helmsman
  • Rigging the Boat
  • Leaving the Dock
  • Tacking
  • Returning to the Dock
  • Jibing
  • Use of Jib
  • Sail Theory
  • Basic Sail Trim
  • Points of Sail
  • Basic Navigation Rules
  • Knots

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The Downtown Sailing Center

Est 1994
1425 Key Highway, Suite 110, Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 727-0722 • info@downtownsailing.org