Basic Keelboat
Learn to Sail in the World's Best Sailing Waters.
BVI
Learn to sail in the Sir Francis Drake Channel
Jamestown,
Rhode Island
Learn to sail in the Narragansett Bay
Basic Keelboat - Learn to Sail
ASA 101 Certification
BVI Training Boat: IC24
New England Training Boat: J22
Two or Three Day Basic Keelboat Course
Our two day Basic Keelboat course is structured around a schedule which challenges every level of student and rewards each with the objective and subjective know how to command a boat of this size. This course is offered every weekend as well as weekly: Tuesday & Wednesday or Thursday & Friday. The format combines classroom time and on the water training each day. The classroom portion is one hour concentrating on terminology, parts of the boat, knots and theory. This time is also spent focusing on translating what you have read in the book into simple dynamics of sailing. On the water you will spend three and one half to four hours each day practicing what you have read and what you have been taught.
Tuition Rates
$550 per person + $115 ASA 101 exam fee
3 day Basic Keelboat Course is the $650 pp + $115 ASA 101 exam fee
ASA exam fee includes:
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The ASA Sailing Made Easy textbook
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ASA exam
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ASA logbook
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ASA membership fee
Course Curriculum
Day 1
In the classroom
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Parts of the boat
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Bowline, cleating,clove hitch
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Points of sail
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Standing and running rigging
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Tacks and jibes
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Basic sail trim
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Irons(how to go in, how to get out)
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Mooring balls
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Rights of way
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Commands
On the water
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PFD's and safety gear
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Outboard operation
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Dock line and fender handling
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Sail raising and leaving dock/anchorage
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Using tell tales
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Going head to wind, bearing away
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Tacks and jibes
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Sail to dock
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ID all standing and running rigging
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Straight line steering
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Points of sail
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Proper boat put down
Day 2
In the classroom
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Square knot, slip knot, rolling hitch, stopper knot
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Apparent and true wind. Headers and lifts. Veers and backs
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Sail shape and sail trim
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Sail controls (backstay, vang, Cunningham, sheets, halyard, outhaul etc.)
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Reefing
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Slot effect (Bernoulli principal)
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Anchoring
On the water
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Windward Leewards
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Zig zags with sail trim (heading up, falling off)
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Mooring balls under sail
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MOBS
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Heave to
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Reefing
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Anchoring
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Rudderless steering