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INTRODUCTION

Your log and manual are designed to help you improve your sailing and seamanship skills. The manual

provides a comprehensive outline of suggested sailing activities and opportunities to improve your

skills. It is the individual’s responsibility to maintain and update the personal sailing log and training in

the manual.

It must be remembered that this manual has its limitations. It can be a start to the aspiring sailor in

building a foundation of practical knowledge and in providing enough background to make each

experience more than a mechanical set of motions. For those who have sailed, it can be used to

organize knowledge already gained, as well as to provide an outline for studying any unfamiliar areas.

Beyond this, however, experience must be the teacher. No manual can give a person the intangibles

that make a good sailor. Individuals must develop these in themselves. One must learn to anticipate

and to be constantly aware of the boat and its environment. Sailing is a thinking sport, requiring

forethought, endurance, sportsmanship and teamwork.

The data in this manual are in three parts:

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Sailing Log. This Sailing Log documents your sailing experience. Fill in with any particulars

you find useful to you such as activities and evolutions you completed, things you

learned, things that may require further improvement, boat, sea and weather conditions.

This is your log! Document what you feel is important.

Record of Training Received. Enter all courses, certifications, classroom or on-the-water

seminars, etc. that you believe would applicable.

Skill Building Exercises. These are some of the challenges that you should try to complete.

Although the activities are broken down into modules, they can be completed in any order

you wish. It’s just a grouping. Complete the exercises as opportunities occur. This list is

not complete, so please feel free to add to it.

And lastly, HAVE FUN!

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SAILING LOG

DATE VESSEL REMARKS (Document particulars of sailing experience: trimmed jib,

tied knots, steered, weather conditions).

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RECORD OF TRAINING RECEIVED

DATE COURSE REMARKS (seminars, classroom on-the-water, certifications,

licenses, etc.)

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DATE COURSE REMARKS (seminars, classroom on-the-water, certifications,

licenses, etc.)

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MODULE 1 HEAVY WEATHER

EXERCISE COMMENTS DATE

• Identify weather patterns, cloud formations

and wind direction and speed. Do this on 3

different days.

• Note barometer readings and temperature.

• Note wind direction, speed and duration of

thunderstorms.

• Note wave heights, periods and directions.

• Review heavy weather crew roles and

responsibilities with skipper.

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• Reef main or jib on 3 different boats to become

acquainted with various reefing systems.

• Shake out or change up jib.

• Set up jack lines for moving about boat during

heavy weather.

• Put on PFD and harness with tether and walk

around boat using jack lines.

• Conduct preparations and drills for heavy

weather.

• Assist in boat and crew preparations.

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MODULE 2 SAFETY AND EMERGENCY SITUATIONS


• Conduct Fire Drill while underway.

• Review crew roles and responsibilities.

• Exercise all preparations for firing flares.

• Review types, usage and operation of all flares.

• Conduct radio communications with Coast

Guard.

• Note position and other important information

for CG.

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• Conduct Damage Control drill.

• Review crew roles and responsibilities.

• Know location of critical through hull valves

and key tools and equipment for boat flooding

situation.

• Do this on 3 different boats.

• Conduct Emergency Tiller drill in preparation

for failure of the wheel cable system.

• Steer using emergency tiller.

• Conduct Abandon Ship drill. Review crew

roles and responsibilities.

• Run through abandon ship bag, prepare life

boat, conduct dingy drills.

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• Try to steer boat using sails only for situation

when rudder has failed.

• Try to rig or at least discuss a plan for

installing a temporary emergency rudder.

• Conduct MOB drills. Rig block and tackle if

available. Steer and take various deck positions

during drills. Winch MOB on board. Discuss

care of MOB victim when on board. Try to

conduct MOB drill using sails only, as well as

the engine.

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• Review all safety and emergency gear.

• Locate all thru-hull fitting locations and wood

bungs.

• Discuss all crew roles and responsibilities for

day sail, night sail and emergency situations.

• Sail at night. Understand new limitations and

precautions to be taken.

• Rig jack lines, wear life vest, and harness.

• Take the helm to experience sailing at night.

• Discuss what precautions and actions are to be

taken when under very restricted visibility

conditions, such as fog.

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• Become acquainted with safety equipment,

such as foghorns, signals, gongs, and whistles

along with requirements for their use.

• Review crew roles and responsibilities under

these conditions.

• Practice handling boat under short-handed

situation when one or more crew has been

incapacitated.

• Try steering and executing tacks and jibes

with one other person.

• If you are not comfortable with this then

discuss how these evolutions can be done.

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• Discuss what actions are to be taken when one

stay or shroud has parted.

• Simulate this situation by moving boat to the

appropriate wind location.

• Discuss action plan when boat has run

aground.

• Consider kedging, motoring off, sailing off

options. Are these options affected by type of

keel and bottom composition?

• Assuming an engine failure, try to sail up to a

mooring to experience boat momentum

dynamics.

• Also drop and weigh anchor by sailing off.

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MODULE 3 ANCHORING


• Outline preparations for anchoring.

• Discuss:

� Roles & responsibilities of each crew member

� Different anchors on board and their usage

� What point of sail where to drop anchor

� How to tell anchor is holding or not

� Anchor watch

� Amount of rode to set out in various

conditions.

� Chafing gear

� Laying out rode

� Communicating signals

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EXERCISES COMMENTS DATE

• Lower and weigh anchor taking on various

positions (at the bow and at the helm).

• In one exercise, use hand communications

only.

• Lower and weigh anchor using sails only.

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• Set up bow and stern anchors and discuss when

used.

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• Conduct a Med moor and discuss when it is to

be used.

• Set out and retrieve two bow anchors to be

used during heavy weather conditions.

• Discuss how a second anchor can be used to

point the boat into swells when the wind is not

in line with the swells (e.g., behind a point of

land).

• Set out and raise anchor during raft up.

• Assist in rafting and raft breakup.

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MODULE 4 NAVIGATION


• Before leaving the slip, plan a route using the

navigation charts, weather predictions, courses

to be sailed, leeway, and current.

• Plot actual positions against the planned route

and discuss differences.

• Do this on 3 different days.

• Identify and record every type of navigational

aid in view during one day on the water (can,

nun, day mark, channel mark, range, etc.)

• Record boat's position on the chart using the

GPS.

• Use plotting tools.

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• During one day of sailing determine and record

boat position using compass, dead reckoning,

and visual sightings.

• Use a hand-bearing compass.

• While sailing at night identify navigation aids

and vessel lighting configurations.

• Utilize all navigation aids on board and know

when and how each is used.

• Assuming very restricted visibility such as fog,

determine and plot boat position using radar,

fathometer and dead reckoning.

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MODULE 5 MEDICAL EMERGENCIES AT SEA


• Discuss medical kit contents, who is to be

assigned medic and what medical precautions

are to be taken prior to embarking on a sail.

• Take a CPR class.

• Discuss care in the event a crewmember has

hypothermia/hyperthermia.

• Discuss symptoms and treatment.

• Under what medical conditions is the Coast

Guard contacted?

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EXERICSE COMMENTS DATE

• Discuss treatment and care of crew

experiencing bone breaks, head injuries or

other major trauma.

• Discuss treatment and care of crew

experiencing serious seasickness.

• Discuss treatment for major bleeding.

• Discuss plan in the event skipper is

incapacitated.

• Identify new skipper and crew roles and

responsibilities.

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MODULE 6 KNOTS


• Review the three basic knots that are used on a

sailboat (bowline, figure eight, and square

knot).

• Use them on board a boat.

• Learn five new knots (possibly: clove hitch,

two half hitches, sheet bend, rolling hitch, and

anchor bend).

• Learn how each is used on a sailboat, and use

them.

• Teach two of the knots to someone else on

board.

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MODULE 7 RAFTING, DOCKING AND TOWING


• Toss/receive lines during 3 different raft-ups.

• Learn about the placement and tying on of

fenders during a circle raft.

• Learn about rafting procedures by attending an

SOS rafting seminar.

• While in a slip, assess the situation and name

the order of release for lines.

• Do this on 3 different boats.

• Before entering the slip, assess the situation

and name the order in which lines should be

tied. Do this on 3 different boats.

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• Once back in the slip, understand the re-

adjustment of lines to center the boat and to

allow for tidal change while in the slip.

• Discuss with 3 different skippers how to get

their boat into and out of their slip under 4

different wind conditions.

• Dock and undock a boat from a slip.

• Learn the variables for attaching tow lines

(possibly: rigging a harness, line size and type,

and when to raft the towing boat to the side of

the towed boat).

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MODULE 8 HANDLING SHEETS AND LINES FOR SAILING


• Before leaving the dock, prepare the mainsail,

mainsheet and traveler for sailing. (Know why

the cover can come off the main but not the

ties.)

• While underway, learn when to bring in and

when to ease the jib sheet.

• Understand the options of changing course or

adjusting the sails.

• Learn when to adjust the traveler.

• Operate the vessel in a way that would require

adjusting the traveler.

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EXERICSE COMMENTS DATE

• Learn how and when to use the vang.

• Adjust the vang on 3 different boats.

• While jibing, steer and give direction to crew

concerning the jib sheets and main.

• Understand the importance of a controlled jibe.

• While tacking, steer and give directions to crew

about when to release and when to pull in the

sheets.

• Understand the mechanics of the roller-furled jib.

• Give directions to crew about rolling up the jib

with proper use of the control line and the

significance of keeping load on the line.

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EXERICISE COMMENTS DATE

• Reef or change down the jib on 3 boats.

• Reef the mainsail on 3 different boats.

• Execute heave-to maneuver.

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MODULE 9 MARINE ENGINES


• Learn several battery configurations for engine

start procedures.

• Ask about battery configurations on 3 different

boats.

• Turn the engine on and off on three different

boats, plus one Atomic 4 gasoline engine.

• Check all fluid levels on several engines.

• Check for leaks and proper belt tension.

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• Replace sea water and engine oil filters.

• Know the type of fire extinguisher needed for a

diesel engine fire.

• Know how to stop a runaway engine.

• Know how to check battery fluid levels and

state of charge.

Feb. 2005

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