LESSONS
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The lessons covers the most common aspects of learning to sail and enables you to learn how to sail in an engaging interactive way at your own pace
Tabel of contents
LESSON: RULES OF THE ROAD
This lesson reviews some of the more important rules set out in the main body of the COLREGS relevant for the recreational boater. It also provides a series of questions enabling readers to test their knowledge.
SAILING LESSONS:
- Rules of the road explained
LESSON: ROPES AND KNOTS
This lesson offers its own short list; describes how to tie each knot and the main function for which it is designed; summarizes knot safety issues; summarizes knot maintenance issues; and, finally, the lesson provides a series questions enabling readers to test their knowledge.
SAILING LESSONS:
- Knots overview
- Knots and rope safety
- Rope maintenance
- Test your self
LESSON: SAFETY ON BOARD
This lesson offers general safety tips that are easy and useful to remember; a handy checklist; suggestions on what to do in an emergency; distress signals commonly used to draw attention to an emergency; some health risks that develop typically during maritime emergencies; and, finally, the lesson provides a series of questions enabling readers to test their knowledge.
SAILING LESSONS:
- Safety tips
- Safety checklist
- What to do in an emergency
- Distress signals
- Health risks
- Test your self
LESSON: WEATHER, WIND & WAVES
This lesson discusses various aspects of weather and waves. These include the formation of wind and the distinction between apparent and true wind; the usefulness of clouds as an indicator of weather; the difference between seas and swell; the various sea states that wind and swell combine to produce as defined by the Beaufort scale; and, finally, the lesson provides a series questions enabling readers to test their knowledge.
SAILING LESSONS:
- Readning the cloudes
- The Wind
- Reading the waves
LESSON: SHIP NAVIGATION LIGHTS
Navigation lights are critical for the avoidance of collisions and safe navigation at sea.
This lesson provides you with expert knowledge about ship lights.
SAILING LESSONS:
- Types of lights
- Lights on motorboats
- Lights on sailboats
- Special Lights
- Test your self
LESSON: BOUYS & SEA MARKS
This lesson summarizes the system of cardinal marks, lateral marks and special marks; and, finally, provides a series of questions enabling readers to test their knowledge and learn to to sail aound bouys and seamarks.
SAILING LESSONS:
- Cardinal Marks
- Lateral Marks
- Special Marks
- Interactive Learning Tool
- Test your self
LESSON: SAILING TERMINOLOGY
This lesson reviews some common sailboat terms, as well as the fundamental distinction between port and starboard. Finally, a short glossary is provided for future reference.
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