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Offshore Safety & Spinnaker Skills

This course is part of our internal training program for Round IRL Skippers and covers what we call “The Offshore Xtras”! How to rig, hoist, gybe and douse an asymmetric spinnaker, man overboard recovery with a spinnaker and what to do when the steering fails…3 things to make any skipper’s spine tingle. We will also teach you how to setup a tow, so you don’t waste time when the lifeboat is on the way. It’s scary stuff but important when you pull on the big-boy pants and go offshore.

2 Days

Rossaveel, Co. Galway.

€300

Offshore Spinnaker Skills You’ll Learn

  1. Rigging a Cruising Kite (Asymmetric Spinnaker) – tacklines & strops
  2. Offshore Sail Setup – keep your options open
  3. Sail Selection from Code Zero to A2
  4. Sail Trim & Helming
  5. Spinnaker Hoists & Dousing Methods – Letterbox & Boom drops & spiking the tackline
  6. Packing for relaunch

Offshore Safety Skills You’ll learn

  1. Man Overboard Recovery with Spinnaker
  2. Kite-in-the-Water Recovery
  3. Heaving to | Weather Cocking | Lying a-hull
  4. Drogue deployment
  5. Setting up to be towed
  6. Dealing with steering loss
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