Sail Training
Own Boat Training / Instructor
Regardless of your level of experience, sailing should be fun. It is possible to improve your knowledge and skill level, broaden your personal goals within a limited amount of time, and make sailing even more fun!
I love sailing and have made it my profession. So for me, it is a pleasure to assist you in improving your knowledge and skill level through hands on practice. Even after successfully completing any of the great ASA or RYA sailing courses, (all of which I recommend strongly), there is still more to learn. With training on your own boat, you remove the sailing school environment constraints and seize the opportunity to take the next step.
Regardless of your level of experience, sailing should be fun. It is possible to improve your knowledge and skill level, broaden your personal goals within a limited amount of time, and make sailing even more fun!
I love sailing and have made it my profession. So for me, it is a pleasure to assist you in improving your knowledge and skill level through hands on practice. Even after successfully completing any of the great ASA or RYA sailing courses, (all of which I recommend strongly), there is still more to learn. With training on your own boat, you remove the sailing school environment constraints and seize the opportunity to take the next step.
Coastal or inland water sail training
I can teach you the basics or help you build confidence in practicing already learned sailing skills such as:
I can teach you the basics or help you build confidence in practicing already learned sailing skills such as:
- general handling, maneuvering and docking
- ship systems - operations and maintenance
- coastal navigation, piloting and radar
- sail handling, sail trim, reefing
- anchoring and mooring
- maneuvers under sail
- MOB procedures
- voyage preparation
- Weather analysis and interpretation of weather forecasts
- basic radio procedures
- safety procedures
- night sailing
- emergency procedures
Offshore and Ocean sail training
I can assist you with the more advanced theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to safely cross oceans through practice on your own boat.
I can assist you with the more advanced theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to safely cross oceans through practice on your own boat.
Voyage preparation
- Provisioning, stowage of food, meal planning
- Cooking underway
- Charts, pilots and other publications required
- Personal gear (how to stay dry, warm and safe)
Personal and boat safety
- inspection and use of safety equipment
- inspection and use of radio (safety) equipment
- Boat inspection and preparation for longer passages
- rig inspection and preparation
- Preparation for medical problems
Boat Systems
- checks, use, maintenance and service of your marine diesel engine
- checks, use, maintenance and service of your diesel generator
- Checks, use and maintenance of your reverse osmosis watermaker
- Checks, maintenance and use of batteries, charger and monitoring systems
- Which spare parts and tools to carry on board
- Use, cleaning and maintenance of marine heads
Navigation
- Chart selection and organization. Where to order your charts and publications
- Use of (British) Admiralty Standard Nautical Charts and NOAA charts and how to keep them updated
- Use of sailing directions (pilots), List of Lights, List of Radio Signals, Tide Tables and Tidal Stream Atlases
- Coastal navigation, Ocean navigation, Celestial navigation.
- Electronic navigation with on board system, laptop charting system and ipad
- Use of radar and AIS for collision avoidance and squall avoidance
- Check accuracy of GPS with radar
- How to get a position fix with radar
Communication
- Use of VHF, MF/HF radios SAT C and Iridium SatPhone for communication, distress and obtaining weather info
- Use, inspection and maintenance of EPIRB and SART
- Use of AIS in ship to ship communication
- Programming and use of NAVTEX
Watch Keeping procedures, duties and tasks
- Standing watch according to a watch schedule
- Maintaining the logbook
- Lookout
- Collision avoidance
- staying on course
- sailhandling and sail trim
- Rig and boat checks during a watch
- off watch duties
Meteorology
- How to obtain your marine weather forecast (VHF, Navtex, Weather fax, Inmarsat-C, GRIB files, weather charts
- Interpretation of received information
- Understanding of world weather systems and their inpact on sailing routes
- Use of pilot charts, ocean passages of the world, and world cruising routes in route planning
- Heavy weather and hurricane avoidance
- Programming Navtex, Weather fax and Inmarsat-C
Storm sailing techniques
- Preparation for heavy weather. Look ahead, seafasten your boat inside and out, check engine, charge batteries, check bilge pumps, prepare easy meals, sleep if possible.
- Effect of weather on navigation
- Rig storm staysail and storm trysail ( or set fourth reef if applicable)
- Practice heaving to
- Check boat safety and personal safety equipment
- Rig safety lines and or jacklines