Has a practical understanding of:

Rigging

• How to rig according to weather conditions

• Reefing ashore

• Boat storage ashore, launching, and recovery

Sailing Techniques and Manoeuvres

• Leaving and returning to a beach, jetty, or mooring

• Coming alongside a moored boat

• Sailing in close company

• Performing a man-overboard recovery

• Is aware of lee-shore dangers

• The Five Essentials

• Can tack while sailing upwind, losing minimal ground

• Can gybe in a controlled manner while sailing downwind

• Shows good communications when manoeuvring (Double-handers)

• Understands and shows awareness of other water users

• Can sail around a short course using all points of sail and crewing skills

Ropework

Can tie:

• Bowline

• Clove hitch

• Reef knot

Capsize Recovery

• Can right a capsized boat using one method of righting, and has knowledge of at least one other

Racing

• Understands the course and starting procedure (may be covered as onshore teaching)

Basic advice for independent sailing

• Self reliance and basic equipment

• visual methods of attracting attention

Has knowledge of:

• The points of sailing and the 'No-Go Zone'

• How a sail works

• How a sailing boat moves (basic theory)

Meteorology

• Sources of relevant weather, inshore forecasts, and their interpretation

• The Beaufort Wind Scale

• When to reef

• How to understand a simple synoptic chart

Sailing Background

• Knows the importance of personal safety, clothing, basic personal and boat buoyancy

Has knowledge of:

• Basic rules of the road:

  • Avoiding collisions at all costs

  • Power/Sail

  • Port/Starboard

  • Overtaking boat

  • Windward boat

Understands:

• How to apply weather forecasts to coastal waters

• Tide tables, tidal sequences of springs and neaps, ebb and flow

• Speed over ground with/against tidal flow

• The effect of wind direction and tidal flow on sailing conditions

• The importance of informing someone ashore and the dangers of sailing alone

• How to access local information and advice for sea sailing