Demystifying Sail and Power Handling

A weekend of power and sail handling practice.

Where: Port Hamble, Solent, UK

When: 26/27 April (two full days)

What: A weekend of power and sail handling on 37ft monohull

Who: Only ZISC on the boat. Me coaching. 

Accommodation: on board, your own cabin or saloon (or ashore)

Cost: £300 per person cost share (includes weekend yacht charter, free coaching, fuel and marina charges. excludes food).

Contact: Grant +33616480212

The plan 

Two half days marina power handling, two half days sail handling - recovering fenders, sailing onto buoys etc.

Prerequisite

Ideally familiar with the concepts of parking, but we can teach you the basics if needed. Send me a message if you’re not sure.

Objective

By the end of the weekend you should be a master of parking. Or at least be a lot more confident.

This is not a formal course. I’ll introduce the sessions and coach it.

Some of the questions we’ll be asking and tackling this weekend…

Ever struggled parking?

Ever found a tight turn inside a marina, a little bit too tight?

Nervous about reversing inside a marina?

Can you easily sail back onto a mooring buoy or pontoon if your engine fails?

Can you ferry glide into a mooring in strong tides?

Happy mooring in wind against tide situations?

Depending on the answers to those questions, this could be for you.

The maneuvers we will practice include:

Power

• Confined area power turns
• Mooring alongside wind on in tidal stream
• Mooring alongside wind off in tidal stream
• Reversing onto finger berths (wind on and off)
• Springing off 
• Lasso and midship line techniques coming alongside 
• Ferry gliding in tide onto pontoons
• How to get out of trouble

Sail

Practicing and perfecting:

• Sailing onto a mooring (including wind over tide)
• Picking up a fender using only two maneuvers (eg 1 tack 1 gybe or 2 gybes)
• Sailing onto a pontoon
• Feathering rudder to make way
• Steering without rudder using sails only
• MOB under sail