Basic Sail Training
Sat, Apr 29
|Aqualand Marina, V Dock at Favored End
BFSC's popular sail training is BACK! Led by well experienced club member instructors, you're getting an education worth far more than the cost of the book. Join us for ground school - AND - on the water training.
Time & Location
Apr 29, 2023, 10:00 AM – May 21, 2023, 5:30 PM
Aqualand Marina, V Dock at Favored End, 6800 Lights Ferry Rd, Flowery Branch, GA 30542
Guests
About the event
Lead Trainer: Tom Graham | tgraham@gsu.edu | 770.403.3158
Schedule for Final "On the Water" training:
Skippers’ Meeting: 11am, 3 June 2023, Sunrise Cove Clubhouse. Trainees will be assigned to boats with
the intent of giving each one a different skipper and boat type.
Dirt up: 4pm, Aqualand, V-Dock. To review lessons learn plus enjoy hamburgers/hotdogs
To be practiced on the water both as helmsman and crew:
1. Review of all boat parts
2. Tacking and Gybing
3. Turns about a point
4. Upwind landing using a buoy as the focal point
5. Man Overboard drill
6. Setting and holding a course
7. Sail trim both main and foresail
Tickets
Basic Sail Training WITH book
BFSC member registration for Basic Sail Training class WITH Sailing Fundamentals book (https://www.amazon.com/Sailing-Fundamentals-Gary-Jobson/dp/0743273087)
$15.00Sale endedBasic Sail Training W/O book
BFSC member registration for Basic Sail Training class WITHOUT the Sailing Fundamentals book (https://www.amazon.com/Sailing-Fundamentals-Gary-Jobson/dp/0743273087)
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