Adult Classes will be held in the same collegiate FJs and 420s used by the Harvard Sailing Team. These simple trainers offer the responsiveness and performance needed to really understand the forces of wind and water that make a sail boat work. The course is designed to take someone who has never sailed before and bring them to a level where they can safely enjoy sailing a dinghy in moderate conditions.
Course of Study
Students will learn the basics of sailing both on land and on the water assuming no prior instruction.
- reading the wind
- parts of the boat and sail
- points of sail
- knots
- rigging and derigging
- tacking and gybing
- sailing upwind
- man-overboard recovery
- capsize recovery
- docking
