For the technical lessons, you choose private lesson or group lesson. For the first one you’re alone with the instructor and for the second one you are with other students. The price changes with the number of students and lessons than you buy. The number of persons on board is limited to three passengers more the instructor.
In these lessons every pupil looks for to complete his knowledge of the sea and the sail. Together we work on your self-confidence into a crew. The team find the solutions of the instructor’s exercises and reach the objective of session.
Some topics:
Learn the maritime vocabulary
Apply the rules of navigation: ColReg
Identify the responsibility of the skipper and the crew
Choose the good combination of sail following the variations of weather conditions.
Describe danger of the coastal navigation.
Choose your mooring: place, weight, length, typical...
Interpret marine weather forecasts applicable to the area and apply the information to the candidate's sailing plans for the next six hours
Man Over Board manoeuvre by sail
Practice of the spinnaker: "Italian", Jibe and hoist, Tack and hoist, classic hoist.
Organization and communication in team for the regatta
Organization for a single-handed sailing
Mooring and docking alongside with sails
Take a reef.
Use correctly all ropes, sheets, halyards on the boat
Play with the shape of sails to have a best power according to the conditions
Rules of races
And of other numerous topics...