Level 2 Syllabus

SECTION A: PRACTICAL

Rigging:

• Understands how to rig according to weather conditions.
• Able to reef ashore

Ropework:

• Can tie a bowline, clove hitch and rolling hitch

Sailing techniques & manoeuvres – understands the basic principles of the following:

• The Five Essentials – sail setting, balance, trim, course made good and centreboard*
• Leaving and returning to a beach, jetty or mooring
• Coming alongside a moored boat.

Knows basic rules of the road:

• Power/sail, port/starboard, windward boat, overtaking boat.
• Aware of lee shore dangers, sailing in close company with others and man overboard recovery.

Launching & recovery:

• Has knowledge of dinghy storage ashore, launching and recovery.
• Able to paddle a sailing dinghy and row a boat around a short triangular course, come alongside and make fast.

Capsize Recovery:

• Has practical experience of one method and knowledge of one other procedure.

Racing:

• Understands the course and starting procedure. (May be covered as onshore teaching)

MULTIHULL SAILORS ONLY:

• Understands the basic principles of crew weight, airflow, technique (C.A.T.)

SECTION B: SAILING BACKGROUND

Sailing theory & background – has knowledge of:

• Points of sailing
• No Go Zone
• Basic aerodynamic theory – how a sail works
• Sea sailing – basic advice for inland sailors; local tide tables, tidal sequence springs & neaps, ebb & flow,
• taking local advice
• The effects of wind direction and tidal flow on sailing conditions
• Speed over ground with/against tidal flow
• Estuaries and harbour mouths, conditions and hazards
• Informing someone ashore
• Inland sailing – basic advice, local bylaws, permits, overhead power lines, locks and weirs.
• Aware of the dangers of hypothermia and knows importance of first aid training, particularly in cardio pulmonary resuscitation.

Meteorology:

• Knows sources of weather information, weather & shipping forecasts, when to reef.
• Understands Beaufort Wind Scale.

Clothing & equipment:

• Knows importance of personal safety, clothing & buoyancy, boat buoyancy & basic equipment (anchor, paddle, bucket, bilge pump if fitted).
• Emergency equipment & precautions
• Knows importance of first aid kit, stowage and use of flares, visual methods of attracting attention, action to help those in distress.

SECTION C: COASTAL (OPTIONAL):

• Capable of practical application of meteorology, and Section A in coastal waters.
• Able to anchor, (keelboats only) sail using transits.
• Understands how to apply weather forecasts in coastal waters.