SheSails Introduction to Sailing – COURSE FULL

2 Day Weekend Course starting Saturday 28 January 2023 from 10 am to 4 pm NSW time, and same time again on Sunday 29th January 2023.

This course is open to all Females (15 years of age plus), as part of the SheSails program, developing Women in Sailing.  

The club is running an Introduction to Sailing Course at Fingal Boat Harbour.  The course consists of 2 x 6 hour sessions over one weekend, and based on NSW day light savings time, 10 am to 4 pm each day.

The cost is $150 for the 2 sessions, and non-refundable, should you not attend both sessions.   This will include Tweed Valley Sailing club membership which is $100 (membership runs out on 30 September each year) and covers insurance when sailing.  Benefits of being a club member is that once you are a confident sailor you can hire the club dinghies (which you will be learning in).

The course is limited to 8 participants only and fills very quickly.  

If you would like to learn the basics of sailing, and start your dinghy sailing journey, you will enjoy this course.   

Our introduction to sailing covers:

1. Preparing to go on the water:  clothing to suit the conditions, use of safety equipment and the need for protection from environmental elements.
2. Be able to rig a boat with assistance and identify the commonly used parts of the boat.
3. Tie a figure of 8 knot and  a bowline.
4. Perform a capsize recovery in shallow water and participate in single boat towing.
5. Be able to launch and recover a boat with assistance; correctly tack and stop the boat; successfully sail a windward/broad reach course.
6. Understand the meaning of port and starboard;  windward and leeward;  and the basic road rules on the water. 
7. Identify the wind direction;  able to source weather forecasts. 

There will be safety boats and assistants and a group of experienced sailor volunteers to assist you.  The dinghies we will use in this course are pacers and X3s.

Pre-requisites:

. confidant swimmer (performing a capsizing is part of the course, but you will be wearing a lifejacket).

. agile and quite fit and strong (you will be constantly ducking under a boom and moving from one side of the dinghy to the other.  Lifting is involved too.)

Registration will be confirmed once full payment has been made.  

Please click on the link below or copy and paste in your browser:

https://www.revolutionise.com.au/tweedvalleysc/events/170251/

If you require further information, please don’t hesitate to email or phone me, details below.  

Kind regards

Monique

SheSails Rep

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e:  swell.lady16@gmail.com

Ph:  0409 761 908