• Introductions and welcome
• Load gear & food on Boat

Passage eg.Main Duck (23nm) Waupoos

• Breakfast
• Boat checks:
  • Use of a  checklist
  • Required safety equipment as in safe boating guide. First aid kit, tools & Spares. Check out that all systems on boat are in working order; stove, electrical, plumbing electronics, sails, hull, deck hardware etc.
  • Discuss routine daily and weekly maintenance procedures on engine; perform weekly check
  • Demonstrate basic use of the VHF marine radio, including Safety, Distress and Urgency calling procedures
  • Weather checkReview navigation
• Lay off a course and determine compass heading and Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) (assuming no current or leeway)
• Pre-depart checklist
• Daily engine check Marine forecast
• Weigh anchor
• Raise sails & practice points of sail & sail trim
• Sail a compass course with sails set properly, with no land references for a minimum of five minutes
• Plot and determine position using deduced reckoning (DR) methodology.
• Lunch underway (hove to)

At anchorage

• Demonstrate how to take soundings using electronic and manual methods and
• Practice throwing a heaving line to a target
• Tie a rolling hitch
• Review exam papers

Review day’s activities -feedback

eg. Waupoos-Picton

• Pre-depart checklist
• Daily engine check
• Weather forcast
• Navigation excercises
• Pack, set, hoist, fly, gibe and douse a cruising spinnaker weather permitting
• Demonstrate whisker pole and use of a preventer
• Review and practice all afloat skills with revision as required.
• Pilot a vessel into unfamiliar harbour or anchorage by day using charts and publications
• Practice Crew overboard.
• Dock with stern or bow to dock or shore using a bow or stern anchor;
• Demonstrate the use of a spring line to spring a vessel off of and on to a dock; (9)
• Discuss docking and securing the boat to the dock
• Discuss sailing etiquette and legal requirements
• Discuss  the characteristics, limitations and uses of various rope materials and construction
•  Discuss preparing the boat to be left at the dock.
• Review day’s activities -feedback
• Supper Ashore

eg. Picton- Kerr Bay

• Pump out at Picton and fill water tanks
• Pre-depart checklist
• Daily engine check
• Review and practice all afloat skills with revision as required.
• Pick up a mooring
• Eys splice in Laid line

Review day’s activities -feedback

All the information in the Sail Canada written exam is covered in the on-line Basic Ashore Knowledge module  but we also recommend that you buy the Sail Canada textbook Basic Cruising skills.  Ideally The exam is conducted one evening during the course and exam fees and marking are included in the course fee. On successful completion of the course you will be provided with a Sail Canada international Cruising log book and registered with the Ontario Sailing Association/Sail Canada to recieve a student number and seal for the logbook. (also included in the fees) If needed the Pleasure Craft Operators Card is included free.

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