Elliot 6 Meter Skills

White 1

• Proper sailing clothing
  • non marking shoes
  • life jacket
• Describe signs of hypothermia and treatment
• Describe safety hazards on the boat
• Demonstrate proper line handling
  • How to pull a line under load safely
  • Coil a line
  • Tie a boat to a mooring
• Knots
  • Square knot
  • Bowline
  • Stopper knot
  • Mooring knot
• Demonstrate proper rigging/derigging of a boat/sails
• Identify/demonstrate
  • Direction of the wind
  • o   True/Boat/Apparent wind
  • o   Points of sail
  • Simple sheet adjustment

White 2

• Terminology (boat parts)
• Describe safety hazards on the water
• Describe function of gear on the boat
• Define
  • Port/starboard
  • Tacking/gibing
  • Windward/leeward
  • Luffing
  • Hiking
  • Skipper/helmsman/crew
  • Heading up/bearing away
• Knots
  • Sheet bend
  • Cleat hitch
• Describe/demonstrate
  • Proper jib/main trim using tell tales/ticklers
    • How tell tales work
    • How to use tell tales while driving
  • Proficient sail adjustment

White 3

• Detailed boat parts
• Describe safe sailing areas
  • navigational hazards
  • buoys
• Describe/use weather resource
• Parts of a sail
• Advanced sail trim
  • Describe air flow over a sail
  • o   Trim efficiently and smoothly for racing
• Seamanship
  • How to approach and leave from a mooring/dock
  • Be aware of other boats/communicate with skipper
• Rules of the road
• Racing signals/flags
• Basic helmsman
  • Be able to control the boat safely to and away from race course
  • Get out of irons
  • Sail a straight course
• Describe/demonstrate
  • Body placement of crew/skipper on Elliot
  • Proficient line adjustment