ASA101 Sailing Training Day 2

Nick Hattaway

Practiced leaving the slip with me at the helm utilizing the slip lines to keep the boat close to the pylons utilizing the boats natural prop walk. Upon leaving the marina we began practicing approaching a parallel dock such as a fuel dock on the far and close pylons. At that point we picked up Jim the student instructor. Afterwards had lunch and left the marina for the LC navigation beacon where the wind was gusting enough to put up the sails. We put of the sails and practiced a heave to, and man overboard using a figure 8 pattern. Noted that it took over 8 minutes to get to man overboard due to wind condition. We practiced reefing the main and attempted to do a wing on wing maneuver but the wind was not sufficient. We returned to the dock circa 1645 where I took the helm and under instruction brought us into the slip using a dock line as a spring line. No major issues to report on the boat.