This course is an introduction to sailing designed for students with little or no previous sailing experience. The course will be approximately 40% lecture and 60% on the water practice. Students in this course will be taught in a Cal 20 keelboat. By the end of this course, they will know basic sailing terminology, safety procedures, basic rigging and un-rigging, knot tying and environmental awareness. They will learn elementary sailing and boat handling skills including tacking, jibing, heading up, falling off, docking, sailing a course, appropriate sail trim, and understand the basic principals of wind direction and points of sail.

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