Adult Education Tuesdays - Level One - Introduction

When
10 Jul 2012
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location
Baltimore's Downtown Sailing Center
Spaces left
0
Registered
3 registrants

Registration

(depends on selected options)

Base fee:

Member – $275.00
Non-member – $350.00
You will receive a $75 credit toward a membership if they enroll within 2 weeks of the end of this course.

Registration is closed

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

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