Set #1: Learn Sailing Right: Instructor
Guide / Learn Sailing Right: Intermediate
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Describe how to rig a mainsail in 7+ steps. - ANSWER✔✔1. Before you put on
your mainsail, make sure your stays are fasten and tight to prevent any movement
of the mast while on water.
2. Once you have finished rigging and tightening the jib, Feed the foot into the
groove in the boom, clew corner first.
3. Unroll the sail and check for battens.
4. Attach the tack, then the clew, and finish with the head.
5. Loosen the mainsheet and boomvang.
6. Raise the sail up the mast 6-12 inches and secure until you are ready to raise the
sails and go sailing.
7. When you are ready to go sailing, raise the sail up to the top of the mast and
cleat the main halyard. DO NOT cleet the mainsheet or your boat will catch the
wind and tip over.
What force on a sail causes a sailboat to move? Does wind direction or sailing
position change that force? - ANSWER✔✔Push mode (downwind): with the wind
coming from behind, the sail and boat are simply pushed forward through the
water.
Pull mode (upwind): your sail is shaped to bend with the wind as it flows by,
creating higher pressure on the inside of the sail and lower pressure on the outside
creating lift.
Describe how you would teach a student to sail close-hauled rather than on a reach.
What are significant factors which indicate that a sailor is staying close-hauled? -
ANSWER✔✔Being close hauled is being closest to the wind while sailing. Sailing
in the groove will help make the best speed and achieve the highest pointing angle
towards the wind. A boat can be sailed on the low side of the close hauled course,
almost down to a close reach position.
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