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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.
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