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Seamanship and Safety
Once you know the basics of sailing, you should learn a few seamanship skills. Good seamanship helps you handle situations even when you’re not sailing. Your boat may need to be towed for some reason. You may need to paddle from a dock to a mooring. As you may already have noticed there are specific knots for specific jobs on board!
Water safety is always important. Sailors can unexpectedly find themselves in the water. Te best sailors in the world have experienced capsizing and falling overboard. Wearing a lifejacket and being comfortable in the water make sailing a safer experience for every sailor.
Capsize Recovery – Scoop Method Most oſten, when a boat tips over it capsizes to leeward because the force of the wind overcomes the ability of the crew to hike or let out the sails. It is important to practice capsize recovery drills before you need to use them on your own. Once the boat is on its side and the sails are in the water, you should act promptly to right the boat. Te Scoop Method of recovery gets its name because one crew is “scooped” into the cockpit as the other rights the capsized boat.
Step 3 Steps 1-2 Scoopee
1. Tread water near the stern until the scooper has control of the centerboard.
2. Move to centerboard trunk and free the mainsheet, jibsheets, and boom vang if possible. If necessary, throw the windward jib sheet over the high side to the scooper to assist the Scooper in getting up on the board.
Scooper 1. Move around the boat to the centerboard.
2. Climb up onto the board, using the jibsheet if necessary. Remember to avoid putting pressure on the tip of the board or you may break it.
Scoopee
3. Hold on to a cockpit structure as the boat goes upright and get scooped in.
Scooper
3. Once on the board make sure the scoopee is ready for the boat to be righted. Place your feet close to the base of the board where it enters the hull and lean back, bracing yourself with the tail end of a sheet or halyard for leverage, until the boat gradually comes upright.
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