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Sailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Coastal Cruising: Lessons for the ASA 103
19 lessons Over 9 Hours of Instruction
$19.99
Introduction
Lesson 1: Cruising Sailboat Terminology
Lesson 2: Safety Equipment & Procedures
Lesson 3 Safe Refueling Procedures, Essential Navigators Tools, Nautical Chart and Symbols, Latitude and Longitude, Depth Soundings, True and Magnetic North
Lesson 4: Dangers of and How to Avoid a Lee Shore, Sources of Weather Information
Lesson 5: How to Interpret Marine Weather Information, Small Craft Advisories, Gale Warnings, How to Identify Cumulonimbus Clouds and their Dangers
Lesson 6: Impact Weather Forecasts may have on sailing plans for the next 6 -12 hours, How to Reef or Reduce Sail Area, Planning a Sail Based on Weather, How to Heave to, Skipper and Crew Responsibilities
Lesson 7: More Comments on Heaving To, Rules of the Road 6,8 and 8
Lesson 8: Navigation Rules for Sailing Vessels Rules 12, 13, 14, 15, 17
Lesson 9: Vessel Navigation Lights, Operating a Vessel in Restricted Visibility
Lesson 10: Whistle Signals
Lesson 11: How to Anchor and “Diver Down’ and ‘Alpha’ flags
Lesson 12: Stages of Hypothermia and Treatment, Methods for Getting a Person out of the Water and Safely Back on Board, Fires and Extinguishers.
Lesson 13: What if Scenarios: Cabin Filling with Water, Engine Failure,
Lesson 14: What if Scenarios: Failed Steering System, Fouled Propeller
Lesson 15: What if Scenarios: Rig Failure, Dragging Anchor
Lesson 16: What if Scenarios: Grounding at Anchor, Running Aground Under Sail
Lesson 17: On the water Part 1
Lesson 18: On the water Part 2
Lesson 19: On the water Part 3
Spike Hampson takes is on his small boat out to the Atlantic from Michigan
To learn more about Spike’s adventure check out his website
