YouSail offers it’s yacht coaching service exclusively to boat owners. The coach can meet you anywhere you want and deliver a coaching session on any skill in boating. A list of common clinic subjects follows below but the time spent with you will be precisely what you have decided you want or need.
Practical Yacht training:
Power handling, berthing and unberthing
Gain confidence in this crucial competency and save the bumps of parking
Basic rig handling, raising sails, trimming sails, reefing underway
If you’re new to your boat and want to establish the best practice of using it’s rig.
Sail powered manoeuvres; mooring buoys, anchoring, berthing
The crucial aces to have up your sleeve when you find yourself without your engine
Man overboard recovery
Will you be able when that day comes whatever the wind and whatever the sea?
Spinnaker hoists, drops and gybes
Get to grips with all those lines and sequences
Practical navigation exercises, day and/or night
Turn this competency from dark art to an innate awareness
Offshore passage making
Always fancied taking your boat to port Stephens or Jervis bay? Why not take an experienced offshore instructor the first time you make the trip.
YA Yachtmaster preparation and examination
Considering taking a YA certificate of competency. Package a program focusing on the specific skills you need followed immediately by the exam for the best chance of success
Sailing theory training:
Weather
Understand it intimately. What it’s doing, what it’s going to do and how it’s going to affect you!
Tidal height and current calculations
Who would have thought their mathematics would be put to the test by going sailing? Get to grips with the systems and lingo of tidal calculations
Principals of navigation
Position, Position, Position. Learn multiple techniques of knowing where you are and where you are heading.