DETAILED LESSON PLAN - INTERMEDIATE

        LESSON 1

• Downwind sailing. Wing & wing. Lee shore concerns.
• Understanding lift, drag, balance and using speed instruments as trim guides. Coiling lines.
• MOB scenarios using mechanical advantage.
• Sail trim on all points of sail.
• Sailing a figure 8. Diamond of Doom, the seaquel.
• Dropping the mast. How to . . .
• Knot craft. Sheet bend. Whipping a line.
• Docking procedures. Use of spring lines.

        LESSON 2

• Navigation using LOP, paper charts and sighting compass.
• Navigation tools. Dividers, drawing compass. Parallel rulers.  Station finder. Pelorus.
• Anchoring with bow and stern anchors. Marking anchor location with mooring buoy. Hand signals.
• Picking up mooring.
• Running aground. Kedging off.
• How to display an anchor ball.
• Climbing the mast. Bosun’s chair. Climbing harness.
• Man overboard using figure 8.
• Adjusting standing rigging. Loose gauge.
• Sailing back to the slip. No outboard. Docking under sail only.

        LESSON 3

• Night Sail.
• Identifying navigation lights at night. Reading an Isobar chart.
• Celestial navigation basics.
• MOB at night.
• Reefing at night.
• Using ships compass for headings at night.

        LESSON 4

• Heavy Weather sailing.
• Reefing when it’s too late.
• Forereaching.
• Heaving to.
• Running bare pole with drogue/warp.
• VHF procedures. May Day. Pan pan.
• Tethering and chest harness.
• Coiling a line.
• Motion sickness medications.

        LESSON 5

• A review of all Intermediate topics, with random maneuvers requested and evaluated by instructor.
• Practicum & Exam.