New! Adult Sailing Lessons

Adult Sailing Lessons Course Outline

Adult Sailing Participation Agreement

Adult Sailing Lessons Application

Scope
The adult sailing programs goal is to have a group of member sailors who will be qualified to check out and sail the Flying Scot boats owned by the club, non-members who have been introduced to sailing on Tomales Bay.

Volunteer Adult Sailing Mentors from the club will instruct beginning and intermediate sailors in the Flying Scots. Each Mentor and adult sailor will sail together, during an instruction period, at times that they will schedule for their convenience. After an adult sailor has demonstrated the ability to launch, sail, and care for the Flying Scots, his/her Mentor will certify and add him/her to the list of qualified club sailors. If you are interested in participating in this program, please contact the chair of Adult Boating, Jim Monson.

Equipment
The boat is a Flying Scot, CF 3888 CE, "Blue Bonnet", parked on a trailer in the row of boats in the boatyard closest to the Bay.

Sails are stored in yellow bags kept in a rack next to the "crash" boat in the BoatHouse. Number 502 is the functioning set of main sail and jib. Jib sheets are attached to the jib.

Sailors and mentors should bring their own personal flotation devices.

Volunteer Mentors
Banana
Mike Severson

Procedures
Sailors are to contact a mentor who is able to work with them and arrange for a date to get together for an instruction session. The IYC Membership Directory contains contact information for Mentors and Sailors. Each mentor is responsible for the certification of the progress of the sailor(s) he/she is working with. Note that the sailing skills are to be demonstrated under the three levels of wind indicated on the list.

It is very important to make entries for each sailing session in the adult sailing log, so that boat usage, maintenance problems, etc. can be monitored.In so far as possible, sailors will be involved in maintenance and repairs of the boat(s).

Before each use of a boat, a mentored or certified sailor must clear the use by contacting the Chair of Adult Boating: Jim Monson, or the Commodore: Banana, or the Port Captain: Tom Fox.3. After the sail, the user is responsible for washing down the boat, returning it to its proper place in the yard, securing it properly by tying down and making sure that it can drain, and for making an entry in the Adult Boating Log (on wall near Boatswain's Locker) noting sailing conditions and any needed boat maintenance.

-Jim Monson
Chair of Adult Boating