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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 50 ton Merchant Marine Captain with open ocean
delivery experience.
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.
THE CRUISING SAILBOAT
With the addition of the CT-47 our club has been able to add a unique
course designed to help prepare people for cruising as well as bareboat
charters in distant locations. With this $595 advanced course, we add on to the basic course with
training on a multi-masted vessel, with exceptional modern electronic
equipment, a session at night, and finally an open water trip to
Catalina and back is part of the course.
This $595 course has 5 sessions on the water and includes:
primary systems review and preparation,
multiple masted sail trimming, windlass operation, autopilot operation,
radar and GPS operation, chart plotting, logging, and night sailing.
