After eight weeks, a Club 420 sailor should know how to…….

Safety

Follow program and harbor rules

Stay protected from the sun

Be safety conscious (Rule 1)

Use a safety whistle appropriately

Put on and take off a PFD in the water

Tread water without a PFD for two minutes in the sea

Avoid collisions

Get in the safety position

Capsize and recover

Execute a squall/storm drill

Seamanship

Avoid contact (Rule 14)

Use windward/leeward (Rule 11)

Use Starboard/Port (Rule 10)

Use clear ahead/clear astern (Rule 12)

Use changing course rules (Rule 16)

Be comfortable in a 420 on the water

Tie an 8-knot, square knot, cleat knot, bowline, half hitch, and clove hitch

Coil and throw a line

Identify points of sail

Name the parts of a 420

Relate the 420 to a larger boat

Know where the wind is coming from

Explain actual vs. apparent wind

Recognize and address the approach of puffs and lulls

- how to spot

- what to do

Recognize and react to wind shifts

- headers

- lifts

Explain how a sail works

- push

- pull

- centerboard as a foil

Rig and de-rig properly each day

Rig and de-rig properly for storage and trailering (de-masting)

Steer responsibly on a tow

Execute a MOB recovery

Do simple navigation

- North, South, East, West

- recognizing landmarks

- navigation buoys

- water depth

- reading a chart

- using a compass

- using instruments

Recognize and sail in currents and tides

- affects of current

- how to see current

- tide charts

Assess weather

- simple weather systems

- clouds and what they mean

- wind and weather

- weather reports

- barometric pressure

Use sailing as a way to get somewhere

Take care of a boat

- equipment quality check

- proper and neat stowing and securing

- washing boats

- minor repairs

- jury rigging

- wet sanding?????

Row

Anchor

Sail as passenger or crew on a big boat

Boathandling

Leave the dock

Return to the dock

Stay out of the no-go-zone except when tacking

Recover from irons

Maintain proper body position and weight placement in the boat

Hold the tiller and mainsheet correctly

Understand what is required of the different crew positions in a 420

- two sailors

- three sailors

Gybe

- s gybe as apposed to c gybe

- pull in sail and center tiller

- rolling

- gybing in waves

Tack

- position duties

- mechanics

- rolling

- tacking in waves

- letting the jib go

- trimming jib and main as you find “the groove”

Sail downwind

- reach

- run

- sail trim dictated by where wind is

- body position and placement

- steering

- sail by the lee

- jib trim

- main trim

- skipper and crew’s jobs

- centerboard position

- pumping on crests

- steering through waves

Upwind sailing

- close-hauled

- steering a straight course…..paying attention

- setting main trim

- setting jib trim

- steering by telltales

- hiking

- sailing over waves

Sail a figure eight

Sail a triangle

Sail a square

Sail a sausage

Use telltales for upwind steering

Stop and start

- heading into wind

- backwinding sail

- pull in and head off

Adjust the centerboard for different conditions and points of sail

Execute a 720

Adjust sail shape using sail controls (when and why)

- outhaul = adjust foot tension and control depth of sail

- boom vang = adjust downwind leech tension

- cunningham = adjust luff tension and control draft position

- halyard tension = adjust luff tension and control draft position

- mainsheet = control of speed

- jib sheets = control of pointing and speed

- mast rake = controls depth of sail and draft position

- for different weather conditions

- for different points of sail

Fly a spinnaker

- Rigging the spinnaker

-- packing

-- mechanics

-- things to remember (top or bottom of jib)

-- sheet vs. guy

-- fixing the pole

-- re-packing while sailing or racing

-- re-running lines while sailing or racing

-- flying without a pole

- Hoists and takedowns

-- sailors’ jobs and routines

-- what to do with the job

-- mechanics

- Flying the spinnaker

-- sheet vs. guy

-- testing the guy

-- trimming the sheet

-- pole height

- Gybing the spinnaker

-- sailors’ jobs and routines

-- gybing the main

-- gybing the chute

-- gybing the pole

- Spinnakers close to a beam reach

-- hiking

- Using the spinnaker on courses

-- estimating timing

-- timing and marks

Where, when, and how to sit

Position body weight

- steering with weight

- how body placement and movement affects the boat

- for different weather conditions

- for different points of sail

Trapeze

- crew and skipper trust

- getting out

- getting in

- form

Sail backwards

Sail rudderless

Sportsmanship

Respect others

Respect equipment

View sailing as a team sport

Work with a team member in the same boat

Work in a team during rigging and activities

Racing

Understand sportsmanship in racing

- responsibility

- fair sailing

Assess wind on a course

Act on puffs and lulls

- tack on headers

- stay on lifts

Find clear air

Adjust sail controls for different legs

Adjust sail controls for speed in racing

Adjust weight for speed

Start

- mechanics

- sequence

- keeping track of time

- rules & things to watch for

- current

- clear air

- favored end

- first row

- other tactics

Avoid la-la land

Round a mark

- the mechanics of it

- advanced applications of Rule 18

- wide and tight

- tactics

- timing boat’s arrival

Applying tactics

- upwind

- downwind

- start

- finish

- mark roundings

Finish

- dueling tactics

- sportsmanship in finishing

Use rules in racing

Protests and Arbitrations

- knowing the rules

- knowing who to ask

- sportsmanship and hearings

Execute a 720

Team Race

TR motivation

TR rules

TR combinations

* winning

* losing

TR moves

* hi – lo

* passback

* mark traps

TR starts

TR mark rounding

TR finishes

TR legs

* upwind

* running

* reaching