Women Under Sail II: Advanced Class
“I am not affraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”-Louisa May AlcottJuly 11-15, 2012 Review day July 10.
Curriculum Includes
- Passagemaking planning & voyage preparation
- Publications for cruising info: currents, tides, guides
- Text and computer recources for weather, etc…..
- Emergency procedures, actual man overboard practice
- Course plotting: Dead reckoning & GPS routes
- Rules of the Road
- Running fixes, calculating current set & drift
- Radar usage & interpretation
- Single Side Band Radio for weather fax, voice weather
- Weather fax interpretation
- Adverse weather and boat handling
- Sail reefing while underway, Heaving to
- Setting anchor, stern anchor & anchor watch
- Beaufort Scale
- Engine Maintenance: Change oil & filter, bleeding injectors
- Overnight passage. Cruise Downeast with last night passage back to port
$1695.00
