VANGUARD Sailing on-water skills checkout (Part 3 of 3) CH2

The on-water skills checkout consists in the demonstration of rigging, launching, safety sailing including capsize recovery as well as landing, de-rigging and storing after sailing.

Our Vanguard Captain, Ryan Alban, will be on hand to review capsize procedures, and to assess your competency in launching, landing, on-water handling, and capsize recovery. 

Members are expected to complete Parts 1 and 2 prior to attending this skills checkout. Part 1 is the Club room orientation and Part 2 is the Rigging Clinic, both dry.

Prerequisite:

• Sailing Orientation & Rigging Clinic (Part 1 & 2) for the same vessel. 

Tasks

• Transport craft to water
• Controlled launch (install centerboard, deploy and lock rudder(s) while maintaining some semblance of course control and stability)
• Stay near shore
• Maintain a heading
• Tack
• Gybe
• Figure 8
• Man over board rescue
• Heave to
• Capsize and recover
• Controlled landing (low speed, retract board(s), unlock rudder(s), boat into irons in standing depth, no boat contact with bottom or shore
• Return craft to de-rig location
• De-rig and hang sails.
  

Check out the rigging and sailing instructions in the Vanguard Manual that can be found on Club Locarno website under Sailing Club Documents.