Sailing vessel control. Theory. Introductory lecture.
The course will provide theoretical and comprehensive preparation for sailing, racing, and travel planning.
Program:
1. Introduction. What is what. Yachting, sailing, sailing tourism. Yachts-boats-ships-catamarans: what is what. Trips, competitions. Briefly about everything.
2. Why it floats. How to steer. Elementary physics, forces, etc. How we sail, basic terms, elementary control.
3. Knots and hardware. What is what called and how is it tied.
4. Where to sail. Navigation. Planning.
5. Storms and other problems.
6. Sailing rules IPPS72 and our internal waters.
7. Radio traffic. GMDSS. Sea speak.
8. Racing. Rules, classes, handicap.
9. Tourism. Where and how.
10. Where to get a ship, how to maintain it.
Timecodes:
00:01:08 - sails for pleasure
00:02:00 - to ride
00:02:13 - to race
00:02:21 - to travel
00:02:52 - yachting
00:04:07 - yachtsmen
00:05:01 - sailing tourism
00:07:06 - sailing
00:08:07 - sailing
00:08:58 - what types of sailboats are there
00:10:33 - who is a captain
00:11:35 - helmsman and skipper
00:14:21 - what a captain needs to know
00:20:51 - where to study to become a captain
00:24:55 - overview of my course
00:28:04 - what my course will give you