Recently ASA has added an online intro to sailing course for people that have never sailed or are looking for a refresher after having not sailed for awhile. Learning to sail can be a pretty foreign skill to most people. You can almost look at this as an online driving course for young teenagers. If you’ve never been in a car before you may not realize what those two pedals do in the front seat. What if there are three pedals? You don’t have three legs! This quick course takes around 30 minutes to complete and goes over what you should wear, parts of the modern sailboat and how some basic maneuvers are completed. The videos demonstrate with an ASA instructor how to tack and jibe a sailboat. Turning left and right in a sailboat is a little bit more involved than driving a car. Well it’s not really more involved unless you want to do it without coming to a complete stop.
The online course is not designed to give you the knowledge to cut your dock lines and circumnavigate the globe after the 30 minute course. You can be fairly knowledgeable about how to be an effective crewman on a sailboat and contribute to the operation of the sailboat. If you want to just relax and look pretty during the sail you still have the option, you’ll just be able to rest easy knowing if you hear Jibe Ho it’s a command to turn the sailboat and not a reference to your promiscuity.
The online course is not designed to give you the knowledge to cut your dock lines and circumnavigate the globe after the 30 minute course. You can be fairly knowledgeable about how to be an effective crewman on a sailboat and contribute to the operation of the sailboat. If you want to just relax and look pretty during the sail you still have the option, you’ll just be able to rest easy knowing if you hear Jibe Ho it’s a command to turn the sailboat and not a reference to your promiscuity.
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