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 Online Sailing Course, School & Lessons

This sailing course is designed to present basic and advanced information about keel sailboats and sailing in US waters.  This course is not designed to substitute for the US SAILING certification course or on-the-water training by a sailing instructor, but may be used as one of the tools in preparation for taking a certified course or in continuing your sailing education.  

      Contained in this keelboat sailing course are videos on how to sail and tie knots along with JavaScript calculators for estimating sailboat characteristics, design and navigation.  After you have taken the course, you may test yourself by taking an on-line examination.  The test will be graded on-line and you will be told which questions you missed. 

All presented information may vary depending upon the sailboat, skill of the sailor, weather conditions, etc. 

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Sailing  Calculators
 
 Maximum Hull Speed
  
Capsize Formula
  
Angle of Vanishing
Stability
   
Sail Area/Displacement
 
Displacement/Length
 
Anchor Swing Radius
  
Motion Comfort
  
Sail Wind Load
   
Speed Calculator
 
Current Deviation
  
Course to Steer
 
Speed - Time - Distance
  
Landfall Fix
  
True & Apparent Wind
 
Online Sailing Test
 
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   The course is divided into nine parts :
  
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Types and characteristics of different boats and names of the various parts of a sailboat.
 

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Sailing Ropes and Knots.  Videos demonstrating how to tie standard knots: Square Knot, Clove Hitch, Bowline, Two Half Hitches and Figure 8.
  

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Sailing Safety:  This section will present the rules-of-the-road, lights, horn signals and required on-board  safety equipment.   Go To Rules-Of-The-Road Online Simulation Program
  

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Sail Trim, Shape and Points of Sail:  This section presents the various sail positions in relation to wind direction and some hints on setting the sails and sail shape modification.  Information on Coming about and Jibing.
 

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Some principles of basic navigation. 
  

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Some high wind and reefing techniques. 
 

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Sailboat Design and Stability:  This is an advanced section which discusses sailboat characteristics and design along with stability in high seas.
  

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Anchors and docking techniques. 
 

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A log of all the problems encountered and mistakes made during a sailor's first 500 miles, from forgetting to lower the center board, to the events leading to a hard landing on a rock in the Pacific Northwest.


    

 

Buy a CD Version of this US SAILING Education  Website !!!  Contains seven boating courses and tests along with numerous illustrations,
14 calculators and over 75 videos.


Contains seven boating courses and tests along with numerous illustrations, 14 calculators and over 75 videos.
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