Keelboat 2 West Coast (Keelboat Skipper) Performance Objectives

Basic Cruising Standard Performance Objectives covered in the Keelboat 2 (Keelboat Skipper) course

• Check safety equipment - location, condition, operation
• Crew safety briefing
• Weather check
• Vessel and equipment ok for departure
• Sheets and halyards prepared for use
• Demonstrate heaving line use [p45]
• Demonstrate life jacket use [p3, 31,56]

• Glenmore Boat Patrol - cell number location in co-op boats on QR code sheet
  
• follow their direction / guidance

• Chooses appropriate location for activity
• process, crew roles
• halyard tension [p125, Figure 20.2]
• too much halyard tension stretches the sail cloth and ruins sails
• too little halyard tension leaves prevents correct sail shape
• Verify vang and cunningham tension are also "just right"
  

Departure from Dock & Docking [p86]

• Tasks assigned and understood
• Uses appropriate communications
• Line handling for vessel control
• Check for / aware of traffic
• Docking speed, process, crew safety
• Undocking speed, process, crew safety

Reefing process, crew roles, location [p149]

Shake out reef: process, crew roles, location [p151]

Crew communication (at all times, including)

• heading up and bearing away [p136]
  
• tacking [p141]
• gybing [p143]
• heaving to [p147]
• raising sails
  
• lowering sails  [p152, 153]
  

Basic Sailing Manoeuvers

• Luffing and controlling speed
• Appropriate communications
• Gybing
• Points of sail (close hauled, reach, run)
• Holding a course (close hauled, reach, run)
• Basic trim
• Tacking

• Heading up and bearing away
• Beating to windward
• Gybing downwind
• Taking the boat to a destination
• Rounding a mark
• Heaving to
• Crew communication

• Initial actions - alert, spotter, flotation
• Boat immediately on a beam reach
• Head up, tack, bear away to broach reach
• head up to close reach and pick up crew on windward side of boat
• Boat speed when stopping alongside crew < 1 knot
• Windward pickup of crew is preferable unless crew is injured

• Vessel secured: fenders, spring & breast lines
• Sails flaked / furled and covered / stowed
• Equipment stowed
• Vessel clean

Lowering sail afloat: process crew roles, sail control

ColRegs: basic

Basic Cruising Standard Performance Objectives not covered in the Keelboat Skipper course

• Engine start/stop and cooling water flow
• Engine and steering controls
• Tasks assigned and understood
• Uses appropriate communications
• Line handling for vessel control
• Check for / aware of traffic
• Docking speed, process, crew safety
• Undocking speed, process, crew safety

• Stops vessel at specified location
• Steers vessel on straight course
• Prop walk
• Turning ahead and astern to port and starboard
• Proper helm management
• Stopping distance

• Engine off for recovery
• Beam to or head to wind pickup
• Return under power
• Initial actions - alert, spotter, flotation

• Selects / checks anchorage location
• Prepared to anchor
• Anchor lowered and set
• Anchor retrieval under power
• Stow / secure anchor; clean foredeck
• Crew communication

• Buoyage: obey lateral, cardinal & special
• Colregs: sail, power lights & rules
• Charts: find location & local hazards