Basic Keelboat – ASA 101 San Diego

Prerequisites: None
General Description: The sailor completing this course will be able to sail a boat of about 28 feet in length in light to moderate winds and sea conditions in familiar waters without supervision. This is a preparatory Standard with no auxiliary power or navigation skills required. Check out our Upcoming ASA 101 Classes in San Diego, or contact us to book according to your schedule (if you pull together three friends it makes it REALLY easy).

This class will be held for 2 days from 9am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. Schedule to take the ASA 101 test during normal office hours. All students will have read “Sailing Fundamentals” prior to start of class.

Consider taking ASA 101 as part of a 101/103 Combo.

By the end of your training, you will be able to define, execute and perform ALL of the below skills.

Day 1

Classroom/Dockside 0900-1100

• Introductions to Sailing
• Overview: The sailboat and the wind
• Sailing knowledge
• All about boats
• The basic boat
• Responsibilities of the skipper and crew
• Alcohol and drug abuse
• Federal requirements for recreational boats
• The safety harness
• Deck safety
• Hypothermia and clothing
• Seasickness
• Rules of the Road
• Review questions

Lunch 1100-1130

Dockside 1130-1230

• Sailing skills
• Dock lines and their uses
• Proper use of Fenders
• Boarding
• Sailing Checklist
• Attaching the sails
• Rigging checklist
• Using winches

Underway 1230-1630

• Outbound- under power
• Handling a vessel under power
• Power exercise
• Figure eight at ½ and full throttle exercise
• Fast Stop exercise
• Inbound- under power
• Landing at an upwind dock exercise
• Docking
• Sailing
• Raising the mainsail
• Points of Sail
  • Close hauled
  • Close reach
  • Beam reach
  • Broad reach
  • Running
  • Hard to wind/Luffing
  • In-irons
  • Port tack
  • Heading up
  • Sailing by the lee
  • Head to Wind
  • Windward Boat
  • Heading down and bearing away
  • Luffing
  • Starboard Tack
  • Leeward Tack
• Coming about exercise- Jibing and Tacking
• Avoiding Collisions in close quarters by tacking away, falling off
• Going astern and luffing to slow down
• Use telltales, hold course and trimming with wind shifts.
• Anchoring
• Vessel and crew preparation exercise
• Recovering the anchor exercise
• Mooring
• Ending the sail
• Inbound- under power
• Docking

End of Day One

Day 2

Classroom 0900-1100

• Sailing knowledge
• Sail trim
• What makes a boat sail
• Points of sail
• Rules of the road under sail
• Review questions
• Day sail planning
• Chart symbols
• Aids to navigation
• Anchors and their uses
• The Anchorage – Harbor
• Knots
• Dock lines and their uses
• Review questions

Lunch 1100-1130

Underway 1130-1630

• Outbound under power
• Inbound- under power Docking
• Sailing
• Communications
• Raising the mainsail
• Raising the jib
• Reaching with mainsail and jib
• Coming about with mainsail and jib
• Sailing a figure eight
• Jibing with mainsail and jib
• Sailing close-hauled
• Sailing on a run
• Sailing on a reach
• Stopping the boat
• Sail trimming exercise
• Rescuing a man overboard
• MOB exercise
• Inbound- under power
• Docking

WRITTEN EXAM AND SURVEY

End of Day Two