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FVSPS Sail Course, Class 1
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Welcome to This Course!FVSPS Sail Course with
OTW Training

• We are Bringing Together
• - Old FVSPS members and soon-to-be new members
  from my introduction to sailing meetup class
• - Sailors and power-boaters, people with
  substantial sailing experience and those with
  none
• - Traditional USPS bookish instruction combined
  with OTW training

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Welcome to This Course!FVSPS Sail Course with
OTW Training

• What to Expect
• - Those of you continuing from the meetup sailing
  class There will be some overlap, but more
  material, depth, and OTW practice.
• - Variety of instructors and teaching styles
• - There will be some rough edges in this class,
  but lets help each other and make it the best
  class that we can!

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Introductions

• 1) What is your boating background?
• 2) What USPS have you taken/taught?
• 3) What do you want from this class?
• Me
• Leslie
• Steve
• Other FVSPS Instructors
• Everyone else

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Other Preliminaries

• Your information in our records
• Leslies house
• Lunch
• Boaters one-minute IQ test
• My sailing DVD copies available, 1 to help
  cover the material costs

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A Musical Interlude

• Lin and Larry Pardey singing their song, Yacht
  Club Bar, from their Storm Tactics DVD.

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Yacht Club Bar Song, Chorus

• I love to sit around the yacht club bar
• and talk about the things were going to do.
• I love to sit around the yacht club bar
• because it doesnt move.
• The swells are big and the winds are high
• but that dont bother me.
• Cause I never get lost and my tummy doesnt toss
• Its a wonderful life on the sea.

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Yacht Club Bar Song, Verse 1

• My boat it is a big one boys.
• My crew it is the best.
• We race around the entrance buoy,
• beating all the rest.
• Were the first ones home with a bent elbow
• and a powerful salt spray thirst.
• We sit around and drink all night
• and see who comes in first.

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Yacht Club Bar Song, Chorus

• I love to sit around the yacht club bar
• and talk about the things were going to do.
• I love to sit around the yacht club bar
• because it doesnt move.
• The swells are big and the winds are high
• but that dont bother me.
• Cause I never get lost and my tummy doesnt toss
• Its a wonderful life on the sea.

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Course Approach

• Combine
• - Concepts, from the classroom
• Practice sailing, OTW training
• Rationale for this approach
• OTW without background from study does not work
  well.
• Show video, new sailor confused at the helm.
• Note OTW training is in the Sail course is
  optional. You can take the Sail course and exam
  without doing OTW Training.)

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Specific Course Goals

• Learn Basic Sailing Knowledge and Skills
• - Basic Keelboat book
• - Brians instruction
• - OTW training
• Learn Deeper Sailing Knowledge and Terminology
• - Sail book
• - Leslie/Steves instruction
• Result You know what to do on a sailboat and can
  serve as useful crew.

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Class Meeting Structure

• 1000-1200 Classroom (Order will vary.)
• - 1000-1100 Leslie-Steve cover material from
  the Sail book.
• - 1100-1200 Brian presents sailing material
  oriented towards the OTW training, Briefs on OTW
  training for that day.
• 1200 Lunch
• 1245/100 Leave for OTW Training

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OTW Training General Issues and Safety Issues
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Should You Do the OTW Training?

• Your decision Can make each day.
• Reasons not to
• Takes time, your Saturday afternoon.
• You may not like sailing.
• You may get scarred, esp. heeling, in higher
  winds.
• Conditions on a particular day (e.g. high winds)
• If you want to do OTW, consider the daily
  conditions and you.
• Show video of contrasting reactions sailing off
  of Newport.

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OTW Training Possible Themes

• - OTW 1 Basic Skills in all Crew Positions
• - OTW 2 Basic Skills in all Crew Positions
• - OTW 3 Basic Skills Refinements, Follow the
  Leader
• - OTW 4 Shortening Sail, Sailing with only Jib
  or Main
• - OTW 5 Heaving To, Helm Tied-Off when Sailing
  to Weather and Tacking
• - OTW 6 MOB Patterns
• - May also include asymmetric spinnaker use, on a
  light-wind day.

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Is Sailing Dangerous, Part 1?(Im scarred when
the boat Heels!)

• - Keelboats have thousands of pounds of lead
  ballast.
• - Monohull sailboats are designed to heel.
• - Compare sailing and powerboat death/injury
  rates.
• - Compare sailing and powerboat liability
  insurance rates.
• - Hull speed on these boats is about 7 knots.

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Is Sailing Dangerous, Part 2?

• I know lots of sailors and do not know anyone who
  has been killed or even injured. My own injuries
  have been in other sports.
• In the Perfect Storm, the sailboat the CG forced
  a captain to abandon never did sink.
• It would be very hard to kill yourself in a
  sailboat on the Columbia River in Portland!
• - What are the ways?

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My Three Safety ConcernsWhen Sailing on the
Columbia in Portland

• 1) Falling Overboard
• 2) Tugs / Tows
• 3) Inadvertent Jibes
• My advice - Dont worry so much about everything
  else!

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Training OTW What Might Happen

• On S/V Ubiquity I will let you make lots of
  mistakes.
• Other captains might micro-manage more.
• We will rotate through different crew positions.
• We will use points of sail all the time when
  sailing.
• We will take fewer people in stronger winds.

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Expectations for Crew during OTW Trainingon S/V
Ubiquity and S/V June Bug

• - Wear non-marking shoes. No dark rubber soles.
• - Wear no clothes with hardware that could
  scratch the boats.
• - You will have a life jacket.
• - Bring enough warm clothes, wind/rain parka.
• - No smoking, no alcohol during OTW.
• - Use bathroom just before leaving the dock. Wait
  if possible for return to use again. If head use
  needed OTW tell the captain. Only liquids in head!

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END OFGeneral Issues Aboutthe OTW Training
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Why Sailing?

• Why not do only power-boating instead?
• Life is too short for sailing a power-boating
  friend of mine.
• How do power-boating and sailing differ?
• Why do sailing?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of
  sailboats compared to powerboats?

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Basic TerminologyParts of a Sailboat

• Basic Keelboat, pp. 6-7
• Go to look at the boats

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Basic TerminologySails and Major Control Lines

• Most sails have
• 3 corners, each with a name
• 3 sides, each with a name
• Basic Keelboat, pp. 28-29
• Halyards To hoist sails
• Sheets To trim sails
• Inspect the boats to identify halyards, sheets

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Core Concept in Sailing

• How the Boat is Oriented to the Wind
• Implications
• - Must keep track of wind direction.
• - We need terminology to describe boats
  orientation to wind.
• - Orientation of boat to the wind determines how
  we adjust (trim) the sails.

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Orientation to the Wind

• Basic Keelboat, p. 15
• Sails, p. 115
• Can we sail in all directions?
• General Terms
• Beating
• Reaching
• Running
• Points of Sail gives us more specific terms.

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Points of Sail
See Basic Keelboat, p. 15
See Sails, p. 115
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Terminology for Changing our Heading

• Always relative to the direction of the wind
• - Head up, Heading up, Come up, Bring it
  up, Sail closer, A little tighter
• Head down, Head off, Back off, Bear off,
  Bear away, Fall off, Not so close
• Basic Keelboat, pp. 16-17
• Sail, Glossary

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Even the Sails Act Differently Depending on the
Point of Sail

• - Pull Mode vs. Push Mode
• - Basic Keelboat, pp. 8-9
• - Sail, p. 89
• - Illustrate Pull Mode Do Bernoulli Effect
  exercise with spoon under faucet.

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OTW Briefing

• We have two boats available today for inspection
  and practice of sailing skills.
• If you already know about what we are going over
  today, please try to help others who need help.

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Boat Inspections

• Boat Inspections See Boat Inspection Guide
  handout for items to inspect on both boats.
• Sailing Skills See Sailing Skills handout for
  skills to practice on the boat or on the dock.

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Sail Book MaterialNext Instructors Take Over!