Skills Week / Mile Builder - FULL

This will be a week of sailing combining a couple of longer passages with some skills and drills in the Solent. It will be suitable for anyone with a Competent Crew certificate or higher. Possible destinations for the longer passages are Weymouth, Poole, Chichester, Newhaven and Brighton. There will be an opportunity for those holding a Dayskipper certificate or higher to skipper a yacht outside of the confines of the Solent on a longer trip and those holding Competent Crew to hone their crewing skills on extended passages.We will also spend time doing some skills and drills in the Solent which will comprise a selection of the below. The exact makeup will be determined by crew experience and the time available outside of the longer passages.

• Sail
• Efficient tacking/gybing
• Putting in /shaking out reefs under sail
• Sail trim refresh
• Sailing in confined areas (possibly short tacking up a river or sailing into a harbour)
• Sailing on/off anchor
• Sailing back to MOB (simulated engine failure)
• Sailing on/off mooring buoys
• Sailing on/off pontoons
• Rudderless sailing (steering a yacht using crew weight and sail trim)
• Power
• Bringing the boat alongside in a variety of wind and tide scenarios
• Assessing the conditions
• Forward and reverse mooring
• Stern to mooring (med style)
• Identifying and dealing with prop walk
• Utilising prop wash
• Turning a yacht round on the spot
• Arriving at a 'wind off' pontoon and leaving a 'wind on' pontoon
• Single line (shorthanded) mooring techniques
• Picking up mooring buoys under power
• Anchoring under power
• MOB (man over board) under power
• Pilotage
• Working up and following forward/back bearings
• Identifying and following transits, both charted and natural
• Using clearing bearings to avoid dangers
• Anchoring on predetermined spot
• Tacking safely between unseen shallows or dangers
• Night pilotage
• Latticing (quick position plots when tacking up wind at night)
• Following depth contours
• Blind Navigation (simulated fog navigation)

By signing up to this weekend you are accepting LCSC's Standard T & C's for Offshore Practical Courses - please find a copy here

Cost: £550.

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Last updated 5:39pm on 20 April 2024