Fundamental Sailing Course

Participants

Pinnacle members and their crew with limited or no sailing experience that seek to build the skills needed to handle their Pinnacle yacht safely and confidently.

Coursework

Pinnacle believes that the best learning occurs by doing. With this in mind, this course is conducted on your Pinnacle yacht or an identical yacht in the Pinnacle fleet; and is structured to provide much practical, hands-on experience. The course covers:

• Fundamental sailing principles, practices and nomenclature
• Yacht equipment and uses
• Sail handling, including performance capabilities and limitations
• Safety procedures including man-overboard
• COLREGS and NAVRULES (rules of the road)
• Marlinspike seamanship (practical knots and uses)
• Docking and mooring
• Anchoring
• Basic chart reading
• Harbor piloting
• Night piloting

The course provides five on-the-water sessions with one session reserved as a below-deck rain session. Home study is also required.

Schedule

Pre-scheduled weekday evenings and weekend days or evenings, early or late in the season.

Cost

$600 per Captain for the full course of five sessions.

Crew Course

Pinnacle believes it is very beneficial to learn with others who will likely serve as crew on your yacht. With this in mind, we are pleased to offer an adjunct Crew Course (a subset of the Captains course) to your crew for half price - just $300 per person for the entire five session course.