BASIC KEELBOAT
INSTRUCTION
Long
Beach
Sailing is the premier
sailing club on
Alamitos
Bay
to offer Keelboat Instruction for beginners. Our course encourages an
individualized pace rather than constraining you to weekly course
schedules. Training includes: boat
preparation, engine review, docking, raising and trimming sails
(including reefing techniques), anchoring, man-overboard and emergency
procedures, as well as boating etiquette and rules.
The course is 5 sessions on 5 different boats totaling 20
hours on the water. The price of $525 is less than the cost of
chartering the same vessels for the same time periods!
We use the same text as the ASA certified schools, and our training
group includes a 100 ton Merchant Marine Captain with open ocean
delivery experience. This year we considered ASA "affiliation",
but said "affiliation" apparently involves us writing them a check for
thousands of dollars, with no consideration of what we are teaching or
how, so we remain PROUDLY INDEPENDENT, teaching the best dang course
that we know how, and graduating students who can make their way into
big water.
Our students have
gone directly from our course to Caribbean bareboat chartering, with
only the comment made upon return being that they were "surprised" at
how easy it was to sail a 50 footer.
