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Sailing Club

Sailing Club. Tonight's Topics Review How/When to ‘Trim’ and Steer How Sails Work How to Read Them Introduction to Parts of the Boat. Sailing Club. Determining the Boats ‘Tack’ Boat can be on one of two tacks, Port or Starboard Based on where the wind is, not where the sail is.

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Sailing Club

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  1. Sailing Club

  2. Tonight's Topics • Review • How/When to ‘Trim’ and Steer • How Sails Work • How to Read Them • Introduction to Parts of the Boat Sailing Club

  3. Determining the Boats ‘Tack’ • Boat can be on one of two tacks, Port or Starboard • Based on where the wind is, not where the sail is Port Tack Starboard Tack Sailing Club Port Starboard

  4. Where will/should the Sail be? Starboard Tack Port Tack Sailing Club

  5. Relation Between Steering and Trimming • Steering is independent of Trimming • Trimming is based on wind direction which is directly dependent on Steering Sailing Club

  6. How/When does the sail changes sides? • When changing Tacks • When you steer through the wind: Tack (same word, yet another meaning) • When you steer away from the wind: Jibe (Jybe or Gybe, can’t make this up) Sailing Club

  7. How/When does the sail changes sides? • Jibing • Less safe in very high breeze, Faster, Easier Sailing Club

  8. How/When does the sail changes sides? • Tacking • Safer (Boat passes through ‘safe zone’), Requires speed Sailing Club

  9. How/When does the sail changes sides? Sailing Club

  10. How/When does the sail changes sides? • Standing Rigging • Holds the boat and its hardware together • Running Rigging • Lines that control the sails Sailing Club

  11. Tiller Extension Tiller Bow Stern Gunwale Transom Painter Hull Pintles Gudgeons CenterBoard (Daggerboard / Keel) Rudder Waterline Plug • Part of the Boat-Hull Sailing Club

  12. Head Batten Main Sail Jib Luff Leach Foot Tack Clew • Parts of the Boat- Sails Telltales Grommets Sailing Club

  13. Running Standing Halyard Mast Boom Spreader Forestay Cunningham Jib Sheet Shroud Outhaul Gooseneck Main Sheet Chainplate Boom Vang • Parts of the Boat-Rigging Sailing Club

  14. Questions? • The points-of-sail terms and parts of the boat terms can be overwhelming and do not need to be memorized…yet. • We will cover this all in even more detail this weekend, be ready for a great time! Sailing Club

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