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Adult Education Tuesdays - May - Introduction

  • 30 Apr 2013
  • 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Baltimore's Downtown Sailing Center
  • 3

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

Tuesday April 30th, May 7th, May 14th, and May 21th

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