Advanced Programmes

Overview

Course Title: Advanced Programmes

Cost: €200

Description

Our advanced dinghy courses will allow sailors who have completed their level 2 and gained some extra practise to progress in a module suited to your interests.

We’re running several programmes this year:

  • Dinghy seamanship skills course
  • Sailing with spinnakers modules
  • Dinghy day sailing programme.

Each programme and the experience required are detailed below.

Courses are organised to meet demand. Please get in touch if interested.

Cost: €200

Courses run from 9.30am to 5.30pm each day.

The Seamanship Skills course is focused on how to handle a boat in all circumstances and solve problems afloat.

This course will cover:

  • Launching and recovering the boat in different circumstances
  • Stopping
  • Reducing sail
  • Recovering a man overboard
  • Anchoring

Prerequisite Requirements

Sailors on this programme will have completed a Dinghy Level 2 course as a minimum requirement.

This course will teach you all you need to know about sailing with a spinnaker.

This course will cover how to:

  • Rig the boat
  • Gybe
  • Recover a spinnaker
  • Sail the best possible course downwind.

This course is usually completed in dinghies with trapeze. While not part of the formal syllabus, there will be some coaching on using the trapeze when heading upwind.

Prerequisite Requirements

Sailors on this programme will have completed a Dinghy Level 2 course and have gained some additional sailing experience. This can be achieved with the INSC during their supervised sailing sessions.

The Day Sailing Course focuses on passage planning and decision making for small boat cruising.

This course will cover:

  • Preparing and planning for a day cruise
  • Pilotage
  • Decision making including in adverse conditions.

A typical course would see us sail west from Dun Laoghaire towards Blackrock on day 1. On Day 2, we will head to Dalkey Island for lunch!

Prerequisite Requirements

Sailors on this programme will be quite experienced in a dinghy, having sailed with the Irish National Sailing Club for at least a few months after their Dinghy Level 2, or similar. Ideally, participants would have completed the Seamanship Skills course as well.

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