Demystifying Sail and Power Handling

A weekend of power and sail handling practice.

Where: Port Hamble, Solent, UK

When: 26/27 April (two full days)

What: A weekend of power and sail handling on 37ft monohull

Who: Only ZISC on the boat. Me coaching. 

Accommodation: on board, your own cabin or saloon (or ashore)

Cost: £300 per person cost share (includes weekend yacht charter, free coaching, fuel and marina charges. excludes food).

Mileage: probably a total of 5-10NM all weekend!

The plan 

We’ll basically be going round in circles, parking, picking up fenders, parking, picking up fenders. Under sail and power. Introducing and using more advanced techniques.

Two half days marina power handling, two half days sail handling - recovering fenders, sailing onto buoys etc.

Prerequisite

You need to be familiar with the concepts of parking and have tried to park a boat in the past, preferably at least aspiring day skipper level (even if you dont have the certificate) or above. Send me a message if you’re not sure.

Objective

By the end of the weekend you should be a master of parking. Or at least be a lot more confident.

This is not a formal course. I’ll introduce the sessions and coach it.

Some of the questions we’ll be asking and tackling this weekend…

Ever struggled parking?

Ever found a tight turn inside a marina, a little bit too tight?

Nervous about reversing inside a marina?

Can you easily sail back onto a mooring buoy or pontoon if your engine fails?

Can you ferry glide into a mooring in strong tides?

Happy mooring in wind against tide situations?

Depending on the answers to those questions, this could be for you.

The maneuvers we will practice include:

Power

• Confined area power turns
• Mooring alongside wind on in tidal stream
• Mooring alongside wind off in tidal stream
• Reversing onto finger berths (wind on and off)
• Springing off 
• Lasso and midship line techniques coming alongside 
• Ferry gliding in tide onto pontoons
• How to get out of trouble

Sail

Practicing and perfecting:

• Sailing onto a mooring (including wind over tide)
• Picking up a fender using only two maneuvers (eg 1 tack 1 gybe or 2 gybes)
• Sailing onto a pontoon
• Feathering rudder to make way
• Steering without rudder using sails only
• MOB under sail