FVSPS Sail Course, Class 2

What Are We Doing Today?

OTW Preliminaries:- Briefing- Sign-ups

In Class Schedule:- Me, Basic Sailing Concepts, Procedures- Steve, Questions/Clarification, Sail Sec. 1, 2, 6- Leslie, Overview, Sail Sec. 13-15- Me, OTW Assignment

Yacht Club Bar Song, ChorusI love to sit around the yacht club bar

and talk about the things we’re going to do.

I love to sit around the yacht club bar

because it doesn’t move.

The swells are big and the winds are high

but that don’t bother me.

Cause I never get lost and my tummy doesn’t toss

It’s a wonderful life on the sea.

Yacht Club Bar Song, Verse 2

I took her out one Sunday, we got about five miles out

The wind it was a screaming, right dead out of the south.

The waves they must have been two feet high, the swells at least one more.

I’m so lost and my tummy is tossed, I’ll never get back to the shore.

Yacht Club Bar Song, ChorusI love to sit around the yacht club bar

and talk about the things we’re going to do.

I love to sit around the yacht club bar

because it doesn’t move.

The swells are big and the winds are high

but that don’t bother me.

Cause I never get lost and my tummy doesn’t toss

It’s a wonderful life on the sea.

Basic Terminology:Parts of a Sailboat

• Basic Keelboat, pp. 6-7

Basic Terminology:Sails and Major Control Lines

• Most sails have:• 3 corners, each with a name

• 3 sides, each with a name

• Basic Keelboat, pp. 28-29; Sail, p. 33

• Halyards – To hoist sails• Sheets – To trim sails• Inspect the boats to identify halyards, sheets

Core Concept in Sailing

How the Boat is Oriented to the WindHow the Boat is Oriented to the Wind

Implications:- Must keep track of wind direction.

- We need terminology to describe boat’s orientation to wind.

- Orientation of boat to the wind determines how we adjust (trim) the sails.

Orientation to the Wind

• Basic Keelboat, p. 15; Sail, p. 115• Can we sail in all directions?• General Terms:

• Beating• Reaching• Running

• Points of Sail gives us more specific terms.

Points of Sail See Basic Keelboat, p. 15 See Sail, p. 115

Terminology for Changing our Heading

Always relative to the direction of the wind:

- “Head up”, “Heading up”, “Come up”, “Bring it up”, “Sail closer”, “A little tighter”

- “Head down”, “Head off”, “Back off”, “Bear off”, “Bear away”, “Fall off”, “Not so close”

Basic Keelboat, pp. 16-17; Sail, Glossary

Even the Sails Act Differently Depending on the Point of Sail

- “Pull Mode” vs. “Push Mode”

- Basic Keelboat, pp. 8-9

- Illustrate “Pull Mode”: Do Bernoulli Effect

exercise with spoon under faucet.

How you Trim the Sails Differs Depending on the Point of Sail

• Basic Keelboat, pp. 10-14• General Guidelines

– Pull Mode– Push Mode

• Using Telltales in Pull Mode– Basic Keelboat, pp. 40-43

Turning the Boat so that theWind is on the Other Side

• With wind in front:

• Tacking, or

• Coming About

• With wind in back:

• Jibing

Tacking (Coming About)

• Commands:• Ready about? (or ready to tack?)• Ready!• Tacking (or hard alee, or helms alee)!

• Basic Keelboat, pp. 18-19, 44-45• Sail, pp. 115-116

Jibing• Commands:

• Ready to jibe?• Ready!• Jibe ho!

• Basic Keelboat, pp. 20-21, 46-47• Sail, pp. 120-121

Sailing Preparation - Sails

• Basic Keelboat, pp. 30-31• Headsail, hank-on:

• Hank luff to the forestay.

• Tie jib sheets to the clew using bowline knot.

• Headsail, roller furling: nothing• Mainsail:

• Remove cover

• Attach halyard

• Run mainsheet (if necessary)

Sail Control Equipment

• Basic Keelboat, pp. 32-33

Tiller Steering

• Basic Keelboat, p. 37

Crew Positions and Responsibilities: Overview

• Basic Keelboat, p. 36

Helmsman Responsibilities

- Keep Watch (Helmsman has primary responsibility; others share the responsibility).

- Boats, Barges, Deadheads, Buoys, Shallow Water

- Stay on Point of Sail

- Sailing Downwind: Guard vs. Inadvertent Jibe

- Responding to Wind Shifts (Basic Keelboat, pp. 54-55)

- Sometimes commands Tacks/Jibes

Crew Responsibilities:Tailing and Grinding

- Self-Tailing Winches vs. Non-Self-Tailing Winches

- Use of Winch Handles

- Handling Working Sheet and Lazy Sheet

- Tying off Working Sheet

Mainsheet Trimmer Responsibilities

- Sail Trim

- Pulling in Mainsheet prior to Jibing

- Adjust Mainsheet Traveler

Other Crew Activities, Departing• Remove canvas, instrument covers• Hank-on headsail• Tie/run jib sheets• Run main sheet• Attach halyards• Untie dock lines• Stow fenders• Close life-line gate

Other Crew Activities, Returning• Open life-line gate• Deploy fenders• Positioned to step quickly off onto dock• Tie Boat to the dock, Basic Keelboat, p. 49• Fold/bag headsail• Remove/coil jib sheets• Flake mainsail, stow lazy jacks• Stow main sheet• Position canvas, instrument covers

True vs. Apparent Wind:Quick Definition

- True Wind

- Boat Wind

- Apparent Wind

- Implications for Sailing – Will consider more on another day.

Sail Book Material

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