ON THE WATER TRAINING
May 17 - 18, 2025
Early Board May 16
Rock Hall, MD
This two-day training experience is your opportunity to get back on the water and practice your boat handling and sailing skills. On the Water Training (OWT) gives new sailors experience steering the boat and performing each role during anchoring, reefing, rescuing, and sailing. Experienced sailors have the opportunity to take command through practice maneuvers, and brush up on less-used skills.
This year’s OWT will cover line handling and steering while leaving and approaching docks, slips, and moorings. We’ll practice rafting and separating, as well as anchoring techniques. We’ll review effective communication -- both on board and over VHF -- and practice sailing skills, including sail trim, tacking, and jibing.
Tentative agenda:
Friday Early boarding around 4:00 p.m. if boats are available. Dinner in town.
Friday 9:00 p.m. – Post-supper discussion of the effects of wind, current, and prop walk while maneuvering.
Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. – Boat systems overview, communication, essential knots. Under power exercises. Under sail exercises. Lunch on the water. Dinner ashore.
Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. – Under sail – sail trim, man overboard, heave to. Anchoring and rafting drills. Lunch on the water.
Unlike our usual trips, this event is not preceded by a pre-trip meeting. However, individual skippers may wish to organize a conference call or virtual meeting prior to the weekend. The boats return to their slips each night, and dinners are ashore. Participants are responsible for providing their own breakfasts and lunches. Coordination among crews is encouraged, once boat assignments have been made.
The Boats
(Click the images, below, for more boat information)
The cost of this event is $425.00 per person. This price covers only charter fees. Food, fuel, pump-out, and other incidental expenses are additional and will be handled by each boat’s crew.
Please make your check payable to The Sailing Club, Inc. and mail it, along with your completed two-page Reservation/Release Form, to Gary Brubaker at the address below. Reservations will be processed in the order they are received. The Club's standard 30-day cancellation policy applies for this event. Please review the Club’s trip signup procedure and policies in the Trip Information Package.
Trip Leader
Gary Brubaker
1616 Barnegat Avenue
Surf City, NJ 08008
610-299-2035
gary.brubaker@gmail.com
Instructors
Bob Rainey
2006 S Branch Drive
Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889
908-872-9101
rjraineyjr@aol.com
Gary Brubaker
1616 Barnegat Avenue
Surf City, NJ 08008
610-299-2035
gary.brubaker@gmail.com
Please note that sailing conditions are dynamic,
that your safety, and that of your crewmates,
depends on your good physical health and agility.
