General Goals
Increase competence at night sailing in familiar waters.
Life Jackets are required to be worn onboard. They will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own should you wish.
Discussion
- Plotting courses
- Dead reckoning
- LOPs and Fixes
- Light characteristics of aids to navigation
- Running light requirements
- Interpreting running lights on other vessels and applying the rules of the road
- Planning a sensible route with alternatives
Sailing
- Selecting and trimming sails for optimum comfort and speed
- Identifying aids to navigation
- Position finding
- Night sailing techniques
- Applying the rules of the road