Courses:
The
club organises an adult beginners sail training weekends, and an
ISA approved Junior sail training course each year. The club owns
two Wayfarers, a Topper and an Enterprise, all of which are used
extensively for training both, adults and juniors, and are open
to Club members on Training \ Race Nights, It is advised that you
prebook the Club boats by filling in the booking form on the notice
board in the club house. Check the Events
page for dates.
The
Adult beginners weekend course:
Introduces
the participant to sailing and the emphasis is on time spent on
the water. At the end of the course, you will have been trained
on the basic parts of a boat, and how to rig it. You will also have
been introduced to the basic points of sailing and will be able
to helm.
NOTE:
The Course fee for the Adult Course is 110
Euro, on completion of the course participants are offered
1 year membership of the club at
no extra charge.
Basic
Rules:
An
understanding of this introduction to the rules enables a racing
helmsman to keep out of trouble and provides the logical framework
which underlies all the 'when boats meet' rules, however complex.
The sailing rules are designed to prevent collisions and to promote
fair sailing. So when boats collide, or when a right-of-way boat
is forced to steer clear to avoid contact, the boat in the wrong
should be penalised. The voluntary penalty is the '720' (two full
turns of the boat). If a helmsman in the wrong does not take the
voluntary penalty soon after the incident, another competitor or
the race organisers may lodge a protest. In the protest meeting
the boat in the wrong is disqualified. The basic right-of-way code
is quite simple, but it is important to know that the rights and
obligation of boats in open water are often different from those
at marks of the course or obstructions.
At
the Start:
The
rules about giving room at marks change when boats are 'approaching
the line to start'. No boat has the right to room at a starting
mark when approaching the line to start (unless the mark is not
surrounded by navigable water).
At
The Windward mark:
1.
When on opposite tacks, take the mark away and apply the principles
as in open water (rules 10 and 18.1(b)).
2.
When on the same tack, the boat next to the mark must be given room
to pass the mark by the boat outside (rule 18.2 (a)).
3.
When a boat is tacking to pass the mark, she must keep clear of
any other boat (rule 13).
4. A boat overlapping on the outside must give room to a boat tacking
on the inside (rule 18.2(a)).
Changing
course:
Whenever
a right-of-way boat changes course, she must usually give the give-way
boat 'room to keep clear'. Sometimes a boat is not allowed to sail
above her proper course, but when a boat establishes an overlap
on your windward side you may luff right up to head-to-wind provided
that you give the windward boat room to keep clear (rule 16).
At
an off-wind mark :
1. If the boat on the inside at the mark is
the give-way boat (on port tack if they are on opposite tacks, or
to windward if they are on the same tack), she must be given room
to pass the mark (rule 18.2(a)). The port and starboard rule (10)
does not apply. But the inside boat must not take more room than
that required to pass the mark in a seamanlike way in the existing
conditions (rule 18.2, definition of Room).
2. If the boat on the inside at the mark is the right-of-way boat
(on starboard tack if they are on opposite tacks, or to leeward
if they are on the same tack), the outside boat must keep clear(rule
18.2(a)). But the inside boat must not sail further from the mark
than needed to sail her proper course (unless neither will have
to gybe, and
the leeward boat did not establish the overlap from clear astern)
(rules 18.2 and 18.4).
3. A boat which approaches the mark clear ahead of another has the
right to bear away or gybe round the mark; the other boat must keep
clear (rule 18.2(c)).
4. If they are overlapped when one of them reaches to two-length
zone, the outside boat's obligation continues even if the overlap
is broken later (rule 18.2(b)).
