TRAINING
DAY ONE : SAFETY
The first day’s training is all about safety. Our goal is to make your event as safe as possible. ‘Safe’ to us has a few meanings. Number one, of course, we want to keep you safe from bodily harm while with us on the boat- this involves revealing all the hazards present on the boat- those that are simple to perceive and those that are somewhat less obvious. This might include such simple things as correctly navigating your way up and down the companionway and goes right through to understanding how to launch and enter a liferaft. Secondly ‘Safe’ means emotionally safe- that means you understand what is happening around you and people are not getting nervous or uncomfortable with the situation at any point. We want you to be part of what is happening on board the boat and that requires a high level of information about everything that is happening around you. To make this happen, we cover a lot of ground on Day 1. Below are some sample headings from the first day’s training.
DAY TWO : DECK WORK
Day two is about learning how to sail our boats. During training, we assume you know nothing at all about sailing and start from there. If you are already a proficient sailor, this might sound a little disappointing but let us assure you we know how to balance this dilemma. On day two, the information will come at you thick and fast, and it is easy for us to throw in high-level information that will top up the average sailor’s knowledge base. Our boat’s- although 15 years old- still represent the edge of what is possible in open ocean racing so when we pull away from the dock at the start of the event, we will all be keen to make sure we have full speed available. To this end, we take the whole crew through a full rundown of how to perform every evolution on deck from basic tacking to gybing a kite. It may take the whole event to perfect what we tell you on Day 2 but then isn’t that the point of the challenge?
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DAY ONE
- Deck Hazards
- Companionway Protocol
- Moving around on deck
- Moving around below decks
- Correct Footwear
- Correct Clothing
- Water/ Sugar Intake
- Folding lines in the cockpit
- Good Body position when working
- Working Winches
- Short & Long Loads on Winches
- Working Clutches & Jammers
- Working the Grinders as a team
- Liferafts, Throwlines, Horseshoe Lifebuoys
- Flares, TPU’s Grab Bag,
- Medical Kits, Medical considerations
- Helistrop, NUC lights, VHF Mayday
- Man Overboard Procedure
- Galley Safety Considerations
- Health & Safety in the washroom
- Getting in and out of bunks, Stowing gear
- Position of life-saving gear inside the boat
- Dealing with FIre and Flooding
- Engine Procedures, Safety Around the Engine
- Standing Orders, Filling in the Log
- Watch Schedules, dealing with sleep loss
- Water and water conservancy considerations
- Abandoning Ship Procedure.
DAY TWO
- Folding Lines in the Cockpit
- Winch Review
- Rigging the Deck
- Hoisting the Mainsail
- Unfurling/Furling a Headsail
- Hoisting the No 4 Jib
- Allocating deck jobs
- Backstays
- Tacking the Mainsail
- Tacking a Headsail
- Changing gears- headsail changes
- Gybing the Main
- Full Gybe
- Hoisting a furling, flying sail
- Furling & Unfurling a flying sail
- Flying Sail Drop
- Hoisting a Kite
- Gybing a kite
- Dropping a kite
- Kite/headsail evolutions
- Trimming the Mainsail
- Trimming headsails and Kites
- team Communications
- Water Ballast
- Tactics vs Navigation
- Man Overboard Practice
- Danger signals from the crew.