This course is for any sailor 101 certified or equivalent experience, who is interested in building their core sailing skills. This includes becoming more proficient at sail trim and close-quarter maneuvering. It also includes improving your crew skills and working together as a team to make your vessel move more efficiently through the water.
We offer this course weekly with a maximum of four students in each course. You can extend your training to include an optional third day for more time on the water practicing and refining your skills. The BK course is taught on a J22 boat that is one of the most popular keelboats for day sailing in the world. Private lessons are available.
Please visit our course and certification information page for more information on pricing. Contact us to check course availability and to schedule your course.
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- Prerequisites: ASA 101, Keelboat Sailing 1
If certifying, students must have completed the ASA 101, Keelboat Sailing 1 and have the ability to demonstrate competencies in all knowledge and skills elements of that Standard.
- Certification: ASA 102, Keelboat Sailing 2 Certification
Students may choose to complete the ASA 102, Keelboat Sailing 2 certification exam after completing the curriculum.
Training can be extended to include an optional third day for more time on the water practicing and refining your skills.
ASA 102, Keelboat Sailing 2 certification
Curriculum for this course includes Safety: Preparation & Procedures; Boat Handling; How Sail Controls Affect Sail Shape and Power; Upwind Sail Trim; and Reaching and Running Sail Trim.
Able to skipper and crew aboard a sloop-rigged keelboat of approximately 20 to 30 feet in length by day in winds up to 20 knots. Depart, sail, and return with control demonstrating teamwork.
PRACTICAL SKILLS
Safety: Preparation & Procedures
- Demonstrate proper use of a winch, winch handle, and handling lines wrapped around a winch.
- Demonstrate a COB Figure-8 and Quick-Stop recovery in each crew position using proper communication and demonstrating teamwork.
Boat Handling
- Demonstrate proper technique to rig and get underway, stow and coil for easy release, and proper dropping and stowing of sails.
- Demonstrate proper driver position and helm technique, including the use of a tiller extension.
- Demonstrate proper tacking in each crew position including commands, pace of turn, handling the helm, and weight movement.
- Demonstrate how to sail with the tiller tied off, using weight and trim at both full-speed and down speed.
- Demonstrate proper jibing in each crew position from a broad reach to a broad reach including commands, rate of turn, handling the helm, weight movement, and proper exit angle.
- Demonstrate how to come out of irons by sailing backwards and then backing the jib to exit the no sail zone.
- Demonstrate how to heave-to so the boat will be self-tending, and how to resume sailing.
How Sail Controls Affect Sail Shape and Power
- Demonstrate the use and impact of each jib control.
- Adjust jib sheet and jib fairlead for optimum moderate air upwind trim.
- Demonstrate the use and impact of each mainsail control.
- Use the traveler to control angle of attack, power, heel, and boat balance.
- Demonstrate the impact of outhaul tension on mainsail shape and power.
Upwind Sail Trim
- Steer to optimum telltale performance to maintain full sail power and a consistent angle of heel.
- Adjust sail controls and helm for optimum sail power in light air.
- Adjust mainsheet, luff tension and steering (feathering) to depower and control heeling and helm in moderate and fresh conditions.
- Demonstrate ways to depower with sail controls and with the helm.
- Demonstrate proper puff response in moderate air and heavy air.
- Steer upwind “in the groove” and on the high and low edges of the groove.
- Demonstrate the proper technique to set and shake out a mainsail reef.
- Demonstrate the use of jib telltales for steering upwind.
Reaching and Running Sail Trim
- Demonstrate proper jib and mainsail trim on a reach, including the use of telltales and boom vang.
- Change course from close reach to broad reach and back to close reach with trim to match.
- Demonstrate understanding of sailing by the lee and avoiding an accidental jibe.
- Demonstrate steering and trimming sails on a wing on wing course.
- Demonstrate how to maneuver or maintain a steady course by adjusting sail trim and crew weight position.
