Free Sailing Seminar Day 3/3 spring sailing practice and skill share in wetsuits

Important Update!!!

We are requiring that everyone helps with maintenance on the saturday immediately preceeding this event. if they want free sailimg lessons sunday and atend a past ground school or they can make a donation of 50$ donation. Once again you must attend ground school and volunteer saturday from 11-3pm or donate 50$ to sail Sunday. (Pato members can sail Sunday or any day for free if course without volunteering their time)

If you know our secret fall location then you can meet us there at 11am.

This us a rain or shine event! There is no alternate rain day location anymoreore. PLEASE CALL or TEXT IF IT IS RAINING OR COLD and you are late BECAUSE WE MIGHT BE GETTING FOOD OR AT OUR STORAGE LOCKER. 313 nine too nine 107five

WE WILL BE REQUIRING EVERYONE TO PROVIDE A FULLY REFUNDABLE 25$ EQUIPMENT DEPOSIT TO SAIL for dry suits.

Free ground school for sailing theory will be on the preceeding Friday, in midtown manhattan.

If you want to help us organize the club or volunteer or just a ee how a club like this can exist then please come to ground school the Friday immediately before this event. Ground school is now mandatory to sail for free. Or you can just pay 50$ and skip ground school.

If you choose to skip free ground school then please study our Handbook:

GROUND SCHOOL

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xAPL_jhTYVpUXiF8ZAyzQDLwO_5xJ6WSaHAsNdljUhs/edit#slide=id.g15e1c15de89_0_214

One more time incase Youre a CATFISHER… You will be required to volunteer 11-5 Saturday or the equivalent before your lessons or help sustain the club in another way OR when all else fails, donate cash!

You will also be reauired to answer the following questions and sign a waver before we take you out on our beginner boat “The Flushing Meadows Queen” a 12’ O’day Widgeon or our Hobie 14, or one of our Hobie 16’s, or our Prindle 16 for as many lessons as we can cram into one day!

REQUIRED QUIZ BEFORE YOU GET YOUR FREE LESSONS:

1.- What are the two most important directions on a sailboat? And why?

2.- What is the sail configuration for upwind?

3.- What is the sail configuration for downwind?

4.- What is a tack? And how do you tack a hobie cat without a jib? (We dont use jib’s in our school because they make tacking too easy. We want you to be better sailors then everyone else!)

5.- What is a jibe? And how to perform one and what is the danger? And what is the difference between a tack and a jibe?

6.- What is the D.I.Y. Speedometer of the boat and how does it work? (Hint: bubbles) And what is the D.I.Y. apparent wind direction instrument of our boat? (Hint: ears)

7.- What does it mean to be in irons and how do you get out of them on a boat that is difficult to tack? (Beach catamarans without a jib are the hardest boats to tack BTW.)

8.- Be able to draw a diagram of a hobie cat with the following components labled: port, starboard, bow, stern, traveler, main sheet, main blocks, halyard, main sail, downhaul, outhaul, righting line.

The answers to these questions are on my youtube channel chrisoul7 or this link https://youtu.be/hiPBNs3Lo6I

Or you can ask a volunteer to teach you them to you same day, if you're nice ;-)

We will teach you how to be a competent captain on any boat. As the saying goes you can trust a beach catamaran sailor with a yacht but you can't trust a yacht sailor with a beach catamaran.

Message me if you cant find the youtube cheat sheet video link!!!

Bring drinking water, 2 pairs of shoes that will dry fast (because you will have to stand in a foot of water or more) and bring gloves and sun hat and 3 zip lock baggies for your phone. And once again sunblock!!! Also avoid wearing any cotton clothing or cotton socks because it acts as a sponge. Polyester, nylon and wool are much better materials for watersports.

If it rains it usually doesnt last too long and we have dry suits and wet suits and are used to sailing in the winter on rainy days anyways so just tough it out and dont be just another “fair weather sailor” (aka poser.)

Come start your hero’s journey with us!

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