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, around the buoys.
• 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. 
  
• Anchoring with bow and stern anchors. Marking anchor location with mooring buoy. Hand signals.
• Picking up mooring.
• Running aground. Kedging off.
• How to display a day mark 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

• Tethering, jack lines, chest harness, night navigation.
  
• 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.