On successful completion, you will be capable of manoeuvring a keelboat in a seamanlike manner and making seamanship decisions in moderate conditions. 

It will be assumed that, when starting on this course, you have already mastered the practical skills and absorbed the background knowledge required for the previous levels. Tuition will be given by trained instructors, using appropriate supervision ratios. Much of the work will be afloat without an instructor onboard.

Duration: Approximately 16 hours (Two full days).

Course Content

Practical Skills

Ropework

Can tie a fisherman’s bend, rolling hitch and sheet bend

Launching and recovery

Can leave/return to beach/mooring/jetty including windward and leeward shore

Can heave to

Reef afloat

Recover a man overboard 

Be towed

Anchor

Sail Backwards

Sail in Adverse Circumstances

Prepare Trailer 

Sailing Theory

Sailing Background

Understands the following terminology:

Windward, leeward, abeam, forward, aft, ahead, astern, to weather, downwind, amidships, quarter, pinching, sailing by the lee, luff, bear away, planning, sternway, broaching. 

IRPCS

Meeting other vessels

Meteorology

Beaufourt Scale
Sources of weather information
Can interpret forecasts 

Keelboat Specifics

Clothing and Equipment

Use and correct fitting of lifejackets
Use of safety harnesses (where fitted)

Emergency Equipment

Stowage and use of fire extinguishers

We will provide the boat and all the course materials, we only ask you to bring the following:

• Deck Shoes or non-slip white soled trainers
• Waterproofs
• Buoyancy Aid/Lifejacket (some are available to borrow)
• Older set of warm clothes (no jeans or tracksuit bottoms)
• Hat (either sun or woolly)
• Sun Tan Lotion
• Bottle of Water
• Any medication you may require

If you would like more details or to book a course, please contact Sam on the details below

Contact Details

Sam Sale-Parkes

07811551367

sailingbysam@btinternet.com