Demystifying Sail and Power Handling

A weekend of power and sail handling practice.
Where: Port Hamble, Solent, UK
When: 26/27 April (two full days)
What: A weekend of power and sail handling on 37ft monohull
Who: Only ZISC on the boat. Me coaching.
Accommodation: on board, your own cabin or saloon (or ashore)
Cost: £300 per person cost share (includes weekend yacht charter, free coaching, fuel and marina charges. excludes food).
Contact: Grant +33616480212
The plan
Two half days marina power handling, two half days sail handling - recovering fenders, sailing onto buoys etc.
Prerequisite
Ideally familiar with the concepts of parking, but we can teach you the basics if needed. Send me a message if you’re not sure.
Objective
By the end of the weekend you should be a master of parking. Or at least be a lot more confident.
This is not a formal course. I’ll introduce the sessions and coach it.
Some of the questions we’ll be asking and tackling this weekend…
Ever struggled parking?
Ever found a tight turn inside a marina, a little bit too tight?
Nervous about reversing inside a marina?
Can you easily sail back onto a mooring buoy or pontoon if your engine fails?
Can you ferry glide into a mooring in strong tides?
Happy mooring in wind against tide situations?
Depending on the answers to those questions, this could be for you.
The maneuvers we will practice include:
Power
- Confined area power turns
- Mooring alongside wind on in tidal stream
- Mooring alongside wind off in tidal stream
- Reversing onto finger berths (wind on and off)
- Springing off
- Lasso and midship line techniques coming alongside
- Ferry gliding in tide onto pontoons
- How to get out of trouble
Sail
Practicing and perfecting:
- Sailing onto a mooring (including wind over tide)
- Picking up a fender using only two maneuvers (eg 1 tack 1 gybe or 2 gybes)
- Sailing onto a pontoon
- Feathering rudder to make way
- Steering without rudder using sails only
- MOB under sail
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