This document provides an overview of sailing, including why people enjoy sailing, typical sailing lessons, common sailing terms, parts of sailboats, and basic sailing maneuvers. Sailing can be relaxing or competitive, is accessible for all experience and skill levels, and can be enjoyed alone or with others. A typical sailing lesson covers boat rigging, points of sail, maneuvers like tacking and jibing, and safety procedures. The document also includes specifications for two sailboat models - the Flying Scot and Gulfstar 39 sailboat.
2. Why Sail?
• Sailing is fun on many levels.
• Sailing can be exhilarating, challenging, and
competitive.
• Sailing can be relaxing, calming, and maybe
spiritual – it’s whatever you want it to be.
• Sailing is an activity you can do alone or with
your family and friends, and you can enjoy it
for an entire lifetime.
3. • Recreation
• Informal sailing opportunities
• Charters
• Raft ups & rendezvous
• Sailing Club of Washington
• Instruction
• Mariner Sailing School
• “Dry” instruction
• Many good sailing schools
• Excellent Web
• Competition, Regattas
• Sponsored entry
• Looking for a boat
Why Sail?
4. A Typical Sailing Lesson
• Review of basics: Flipchart
• Rigging the boat: Nomenclature, parts of the
boat
• Sailing the boat
– Points of sail
– Maneuvers
• Docking, mooring, & “man” overboard drill
• Right of way, navigation
10. What do you need to sail?
– Weather
– Boats
– People
o Sailing roles
– Students
– Crew
– Skipper
– Skipper aboat
At a minimum
– Sailing mailing list
– Lessons at Mariner Sailing
School www.saildc.com
Sailing Dock at Belle Haven
11. Flying Scot Specifications
Length, overall . . . . . . .
Length, waterline . . . . .
Beam . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Draft, board up . . . . . . .
Draft, board down . . . . .
Mast height, above water
Sail Area, main & jib . . . .
Sail Area, spinnaker . . . .
Weight, all up . . . . . . . .
Gross Trailering Weight . .
19 ft.
18 ft. 6 in.
7 ft.
8 in.
4 ft.
28 ft.
191 sq. ft.
200 sq. ft.
850 lbs.
1200 lbs.
21. Three Points of Sail
Two Maneuvers
• Close hauled (upwind)
– Pointing
– Beating
• Reaching
– Close reach
– Beam reach
– Broad reach
• Running (downwind)
• Coming about
– Tiller to the sail
– Ready about
– Har’ to lee
• Jibing (Gybing)
– Tiller away from the sail
– Jibe ho
– DUCK! Boom swings
from one side to the
other.
36. •Step 1: Make a counter-clockwise loop in the standing end. Pass the working end up through
the loop.
•Step 2: Pass the working end behind the standing end, and back down through the counter-
clockwise loop.
•Step 3: Snug the knot together by grabbing the working
end in one hand and the standing end in the other and pulling them apart.
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39. Weather Proverbs
• "Clear moon, frost soon."
• "Mackerel skies and mares' tails:
• Make tall ships carry short sails"
• "Red sky at night, sailor's delight:
• Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning."
• "Rainbow in the morning, sailors take warning:
• Rainbow toward night, sailors' delight."
• "A backing wind says storms are nigh:
• But a veering wind will clear the sky".
• "Seagull, seagull, sit on the sand:
• It's never good weather when you're on the land."
• "When a halo rings the moon or sun:
• The rain will come upon the run".
• "If wooly fleeces deck the heavenly way,:
• Be sure no rain will mar a summer's day."
• "With the rain before the wind,:
• Stays and topsails you must mind,
• But with the wind before the rain,
• Your topsails you may set again."
• "When boat horns sound hollow,:
• Rain will surely follow"
• "Halo around the sun or moon, rain or snow soon."
• "When the stars begin to huddle, the earth will soon become
a puddle."
• "When the bubbles of coffee collect in the center of the
cup, expect fair weather. When they adhere to the
cup, forming a ring, expect rain. If the bubbles separate
without assuming any fixed position, expect changing
weather
The ability of a seaman to foretell weather by the appearance of the sky, change of wind
direction, was handed down in the form of proverbs.
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