Learning RecordOccupation: Sailing

Tony Barrett

6 hour day sail 2 Day Royal Yacht Association “Start

Yachting” Course 4 hours review of “Rules of the Sea” and

sailing theory Ongoing reading

Learning Process

Start Yachting Course: 13-14 April 2013

Taxonomy of sailing

Type of craft Use of craft

Sailing dinghies Trailer Sailers Keelboats

Harbour Racing Coastal Racing Blue-water Racing Day sailing Inshore cruising Coastal cruising Offshore cruising

Farr 1020

Meteorology

Convection cloud over Rangitoto

Electronics

Instrument panel Chart-plotter

Sail handling

Lowering mainsail Sheets running through a series of clutches

Safety Gear

Throw-rope Horseshoe Lifebuoy

Sheets and lines

Tidy stowage Mainsheet arrangement

Using a winch

Wind and sail

Airflow across mainsailAngle of mainsail and jib

Rules of the sea

Yacht holding its course Launch altering course

Navigation

Paper chart Electronic chart

Social environment

Helming

Checking sails Tiller

The beauty of sail

Different Spaces

Below deck Above deck

Beautiful Places

Marine environment

Bay of Islands 6 days sailing 3 days instruction, 3 days self-sail

Next Step

Scanlan, M. (2003). The rules of the road at sea. Auckland, New Zealand: Coastguard Boating Education.

References