CSC DINGHY SAILING MANUAL January 2019 Introduction Thereʹs no substitute for actual sailing if you want to learn to sail. This booklet is only intended as a technical reference, to reinforce sailing lessons. If youʹre new to sailing, relax—youʹre in good company. Most new members of the Cal Sailing Club do not know how to sail when they join. Put this book down until later, and go sailing. Credits Editor: John Bongiovani Author: John Bergmann Change History Anonymous. First published Edition. The club began about a century ago as an offshoot of a loose association of UC students and professors who were interested in sailing. Perhaps there was a manual—who knows? A manual for sailing was put together using a typewriter and hand drawn pictures, distributed in booklet format. The most memorable part was a cartoon telling how to get onto a Lido from the water, showing a shark. Fi.ing conveniently in a pocket, most copies were turned into pulp during the new owners first lesson. Sometime in the 1970s. 4arious minor changes stemming from disputes over gybing and other pe.ifoggery. Sometime during the disco era. The advent of the computer in revising the manual, but keeping the same organization. Major discovery: pdfs dont fit in pockets. Sometime in the Clinton era. Major revisions to re6ect the end of the Lido, which had served the club 7poorly8 since 1959. Sometime in the Bush II years 411. Joel Brandt June, 2011 Dinghy Manual. Cal Sailing Club January 2019 Page 2 412 John Bergmann, updated content and format, added detail on the R 4entures, March, 2016 413 Made corrections, added content on Quests, added more figures, and added a table of figures. 414 No more Bahias, online dinghy log, and other 2017 and 2018 changes to the club Table of Contents Introduction...................................................................................................................................2 Credits.............................................................................................................................................2 Change History.............................................................................................................................2 1 Safety First.................................................................................................................................7 2 Wind...........................................................................................................................................A 2.1 Best info on the wind:........................................................................................10 3 Weight......................................................................................................................................11 4 Learning To Sail......................................................................................................................11 5 Sailing basics...........................................................................................................................12 5.1 Coming About and Gybing..............................................................................13 5.2 The Meaning of Port and Starboard Tacks.....................................................13 5.3 Right of Way.......................................................................................................13 5.4 Collision Courses...............................................................................................14 5.5 Points of Sail.......................................................................................................15 5.6 Parts of the Sail...................................................................................................16 5.7 Sail Trim..............................................................................................................16 6 Dinghy Sailing Maneuvers...................................................................................................0A 6.1 Leaving the Dock...............................................................................................01 6.2 Docking................................................................................................................01 6.3 Sailing upwind...................................................................................................20 6.4 Coming About (aka Tacking8...........................................................................21 Dinghy Manual. Cal Sailing Club January 2019 Page 3 6.5 Heaving To..........................................................................................................22 6.6 Gybing.................................................................................................................22 6.7 Circles Around a Buoy......................................................................................24 6.8 Steering While Drifting Backwards.................................................................24 6.9 Man Overboard Drill.........................................................................................24 6.10 Avoiding Capsizes...........................................................................................25 6.11 Recovering from a Capsize.............................................................................26 6.12 Anchoring..........................................................................................................28 6.13 In Case of Grounding......................................................................................29 6.14 EGuipment Failure...........................................................................................29 7 Knots........................................................................................................................................30 7.1 Bowline................................................................................................................30 7.2 Bead knot.............................................................................................................31 7.3 Triple Half Hitch on a Bight.............................................................................31 7.4 Cleat Hitch..........................................................................................................32 7.5 Figure Eight Knot...............................................................................................32 7.6 Reef Knot.............................................................................................................32 7.7 Slip Knot..............................................................................................................33 7.8 Sheet Bends.........................................................................................................33 8 General instructions on how to rig a dinghy.....................................................................34 8.1 Ge.ing started....................................................................................................34 8.2 Using the Hoist...................................................................................................34 8.3 Before casting o*................................................................................................37 8.4 Derigging.............................................................................................................39 9 R Venture and Quest Dinghies...........................................................................................42 9.1 Introduction........................................................................................................42 9.2 Rigging.................................................................................................................42 9.3 Ree/ng.................................................................................................................47 Dinghy Manual. Cal Sailing Club January 2019 Page 4 9.4 Gennaker.............................................................................................................49 9.5 Derigging.............................................................................................................49 10 Repairs...................................................................................................................................51 10.1 Ripped Sails......................................................................................................51 10.2 BrokenImissing boat parts..............................................................................52 10.3 Frayed lines.......................................................................................................52 10.4 Mast and Booms...............................................................................................53 10.5 Internal Ree/ng and Outhaul Lines on the Ventures.................................53 10.6 Hull damage.....................................................................................................53 11 Teaching.................................................................................................................................54 12 Club rules for Junior Skippers............................................................................................55 13 Introductory sailing books..................................................................................................92 14 Sailing dictionary = Glossary..............................................................................................9A Dinghy Manual. 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