INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the world of teaching sailing! You will find the role of being a teacher quite different from being a sailor or a student. Teaching can be challenging and demanding, but you will receive a great amount of satisfaction and happiness from teaching others how to sail.
Beginners offer the greatest challenge and the greatest reward. They learn a large volume in a very short period of time. One week they have never seen a sailboat; the next week they are sailing it by themselves, demonstrating the success of your role as an instructor. Your beginner students will never see the same rapid rate of progress again in their sailing careers, because from that point on these students will be building on the skills they have already acquired.
National Certification System
The Small Boat Sailor Skill Levels focus on building a strong command of basic sailing skills at a developmentally appropriate age nationwide. The focus is to strengthen each sailor’s foundational skills and then build incrementally and sequectially through Intemediate, and Advanced skill books. When students have mastered the foundational skills they can then begin to either learn how to race and potentially move to high performance sailing such as foiling.
As instructors, it is your responsibility to document your students’ progress and check off each skill in the Small Boat Beginner Sailor Certification Record Book or the Skill Up app as your students complete them. When all the beginner skills are completed, the student may send the book to US Sailing with proper payment. They will then receive the Official Logbook of Sailing, with added cerification stickers, which certifies them as a US Sailing Small Boat Sailor. This record of sailing accomplishment will be beneficial when students want to charter sailboats, obtain a U.S. Coast Guard license, meet state education and/or licensing requirements, become a race official or sailing judge, and document their skills beyond courses, races and experience.
Small Boat Sailor Certification System
Generally, small boats are under 25 feet in length. They include a wide assortment of dinghies, daysailers, multihulls, and small keelboats. Because of their size and simplicity, many small sailboats can be sailed by just one or two people.
E Small Boat Beginner Sailor - Sailor should be able to sail out and back with a friend in a wide-open space.
E Small Boat Intermediate Sailor - Sailor should be able to sail out and back by themselves or with a friend in a more confined space.
E Small Boat Advanced Sailor - Sailor should be able to sail in a confined space by themselves.
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