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Announcing
Seamanship & Navigation Tri-Events Forum 2004
The Sailing club, Inc. proudly announces the first Seamanship & Navigation
Tri-Events Forum 2004. The Tri-Events Forum, consisting of three
individually, but linked activities that will challenge Club members' seamanship
and navigation skills over a combined 6 days this coming April through
May. For those of you who have desired slightly more of the Club
than just providing excellent bareboat chartering opportunities, this forum
will offer registered 2004 Club members the opportunity to learn seamanship
and navigation in both a land-based hands-on environment and onboard under
sail or power. Each event will be conducted by one of our own Club
members who are either US Sailing or ASA certified as a basic keelboat instructor.
As a participant, you may choose any one, two or all three events.
The Tri-Events Forum consists of:
- Seamanship & Navigation (Land)
- On-Water Training
- Seamanship & Navigation Rally (Putting it all together)
Seamanship & Navigation (Land)
This first event is offered for our members who want to learn more
or review some of the basics of sailing techniques and nomenclature.
This half day land-based event will be hosted at the Raritan Yacht Club in
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and will discuss basic navigation situations, teach
basic knots and securing lines to cleats, Rules of the Road, Aids to Navigation,
coastal piloting, dead reckoning and more. There will be lots of hands-on
participation and opportunities for questions. The fee for the event
includes the charts that will be used. Navigation instruments such as the
dividers and parallel rulers can be kept for a modest fee.
This event is scheduled for April 17, 2004 and will run from 0900 until
approximately 1500. Note there is a discount offered to anyone that signs
up for the land school training and the other event or events. That
information is on the sign-up form
, which is used for all three events.
On-The-Water Training (OWT)
Have you wondered how the skipper or mate was able to
maneuver your boat into that narrow slip? Do you know all the
things taken into account before deciding how, when, and where to
anchor? What happens if someone falls overboard? Now you
have a chance to practice some or all of that when The Sailing Club
presents its annual On-water Training weekend. We have scheduled
4 boats for April 30 to May 2 at Great Oak Landing on Fairlee Creek.
You will get hands-on training in motoring, safety drills, and some
less frequently used sailing operations like reefing and heaving-to.
Now…at our land school session, you learned proper terminology,
how to use a chart, several useful knots, and some basic seamanship
skills. You will have opportunities to practice these and other
skills for up to 2½ days. If you did not attend land
school, you are still welcome to participate. The land school
class is not a prerequisite and land school students are not given preferential
consideration except in the pricing as described below.
The training formally begins Saturday morning but since
we will have to ferry boats up from Rock Hall to Fairlee Creek on
Friday, there will be opportunities for those of you who can travel
down early to crew during those deliveries. This means you
will get extra time with one of our facilitators who are club-qualified
skippers and senior skippers. On the 4-hour trip north, you
can practice sail trim and basic navigation techniques like pilotage
and dead reckoning. (Do you know why it is called “dead reckoning”?)
You will find these skills necessary if you compete in the Seamanship
and Navigation Rally (S&NR).
There are 20 slots open for this class. Club skippers
and first mates are reminded that beginning in 2004, you are required
to participate in OWT at least once every three years to maintain
your club qualified status. All the usual club sign-up rules
apply except that we will not allow groups to reserve a whole boat.
Crews will be grouped according to skill level. They will also switch
boats and instructors on Sunday. Note that there is a discount offered
to anyone that also signs up for the land school training, the S&NR
trip in May or both. That information will be on the
sign-up form
, which is used for all three events.
Seamanship & Navigation Rally
This third event in the Tri-Events Forum puts it all together for you
over the Memorial Day weekend. So, did you really learn what was necessary
to move a vessel under sail from one point to another in the first two
events safely and accurately? This Event will challenge and test
the best of our Club members in a sailing forum that is strictly all sail,
and with no electronics to aid navigation. You'll use what was learned
in the first event to plot your course and fix your position. Pay
attention on what you gained from Event 2, for those experiences and skills
will be needed here.
Let's Go Cruising
out of Annapolis is a co-sponsor of this event and will provide each boat
and crew with a memorable time to complement the challenging course we've
laid out. There are 18 billets open for this event including the
skipper.
Show up on Friday for a sleep aboard with your crewmembers and teammates.
The boat's crew will be pre-billeted by the Rally committee to make all
boats as equal as can be with respect to each person's level and abilities.
The nearly equally matched 40 ' sailboats will offer a challenging sailing
environment as well. Awaken Saturday morning to a hearty brunch
at the Chart House sponsored in part by
Let's Go Cruising
. The morning's forum will consist of a three-hour navigational
class for those not making the S&N (Land) class in April. The
rules for the Rally will also be presented and questions entertained.
Saturday afternoon your team gets out on the water to practice and learn
the sailing vessel that you have been assigned.
Sunday morning - and reveille commences at 0700 hours. Skippers
and interested crew muster and the first set of waypoints are handed out.
This is your first objective of possibly two objectives (weather permitting)
for this first day of a two-day rally. It's now up to your crew
to determine when you'll leave to attain this first destination.
So, you think you just need to get from A to B? Think again me hearty!
After all, it is a seamanship and navigation rally. Sunday evening
places the boats on a raft with the Rally Committee boat - and a catered
raft party. Take some time to debrief those that did well for use in
your tactics for the next day. It's all about acquiring knowledge!
Monday morning - rise and shine. Day two and the final day of
the rally will put you through even more paces under sail. The Rally's
leader will be announced that afternoon. Please note a rally is not
a race, but a forum to learn while underway. While the event uses timing
for scoring purposes, the boat and crew will begin and finish when they
wish - its the elapsed time that will matter for each crew. Timing,
incidentally, is not just a vessel moving through the water from one point
to the next, timing will also matter on the "drills" that you and your
crew will be asked to complete.
Boat Assignments
Boat & crew make-up is handled differently for the Rally. The
Rally committee will put the boat a crew together based upon the participants'
ability and sailing experiences. Therefore, please understand that
you may not necessarily sail with a spouse or significant other during the
Rally. Also, participants who sign up for all three events will be
given first preference. Those who sign up for OWT & the Seamanship
& Navigation Rally will be given second preference. Rally registrants
only will be given last preference. The S&N (Land) will not figure
separately into this Tri-Events Forum. Provisions will be made for
those who wish to sail along, but not actively participate.
Note: there is a discount offered to anyone that
signs up
for more than one event.
The Seamanship & Navigation Tri-Events Forum 2004 promises to be
an exciting new offering to the Club's sailing venue. You will not
want to miss this first Tri-Events Forum.
Payment Schedule
If you choose only one of the three events:
For S&N (Land) only - $25 payment is due in full on March 15, 2004.
For OWT only - $100 payment is due March 15, and the final payment of
$175 is due April 15.
For the S&N Rally only - $175 payment is due March 15, and $175
is due April 15.
If you choose any combination of the three events:
For S&N (Land) & OWT together ($290) - 1st payment of $100 is
due March 15, and the 2nd payment of $190 due April 17.
For S&N (Land) & S&N Rally together ($360) - 1s payment
of $160 is due March 15, and the 2nd payment of $200 is due April 15.
For OWT & S&N Rally together ($600) - 1st payment of $300 is
due April 1, 2004 and the 2nd payment of $300 is due April 30, 2004.
For all three events together ($615) - 1st payment of $300 is due March
15, 2004 and the 2nd payment of $315 is due April 15, 2004.
Fair winds from the Seamanship & Navigation Tri-Events Forum 2004
Crew:
Dave
Steward
, Commodore
Jon Stufflebeem
, Vice Commodore
Rob Chichester
, Training Coordinator and former Commodore (1999-2001 term)
Land Class Instructors: John Sefcik, Joe Brozek, Julio Menendez
OWT Instructors: Rob Chichester, Don Gilmore, Julio
Menendez, John Sefcik
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