Dinghy Seamanship Skills
25th - 26 April
This course is intended to improve your boat handling and manouevering ability in a range of different circumstances and develop the seamanship skills needed to solve problems afloat. Details are given on the RYA website here.
The course will cover:
- Launching and recovering the boat in different circumstances
- Stopping
- Reducing sail
- Recovering a man overboard
- Picking up a mooring
- Anchoring
This course is one of the advanced modules for which students are expected to have sailing skills to the standard of the Adult Level 3 Better Sailing or Junior Stage 4 courses. The course will be undertaken using the club double-handed dinghies.
The senior instructor for the course is Bern Whishaw.
The RYA does not specify a minimum age but recommends that students under 16 consider the youth scheme instead. This course is therefore aimed at our TISC adult members.