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Suitability

Suitable for those with little or no sailing experience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Content

This course covers the fundamentals of sailing.
At the end of the course you will be able to carry out basic sailing manoeuvres.

Courses start every day. We are open 7 days a week.

 
Format

You will train on our Sonata 26 foot yacht.
We limit the boat’s complement to four students. The course consists of four three hour practical sailing lessons.

 
Skills
  • Learn how to use of all the safety equipment on board
  • Sail to sheltered locations
  • Heave to
  • Understand navigation marks
  • Sail upwind and tack
  • Sail downwind and gybe
  • Sail around a triangular course
  • Read telltails
  • Understand nautical terminology
  • Understand the rigging on the yacht
  • Know which vessels have right of way
  • Steer the yacht
  • Determine wind direction
  • Get the yacht underway
  • Trim the sails and understand the points of sailing
  • Determine tide direction
  • Tie figure eight and bowline knots and know the use of each.
Qualifications

Australian Yachting Introductory Certificate Botany

 
Includes

Bay Sailing School cap
Log book
Course notes
Certificate


Course Cost $596 [Book Now]
 


Botany Bay Sailing School, Kogarah Bay Sailing Club ~ Dover Park, Blakehurst
PO Box 2903 Taren Point 2229, New South Wales, Australia
Tel: (02) 9583 2123  Email: matthew@sailingworld.com.au