• Passage Planning
  • Vessel Selection
  • Crew Selection
  • Route Planning
  • Weather Patterns and Weather Windows
  • Planning for the Unexpected
  • Use of planning aids
    • Great circle charts
    • Pilot charts
    • Almanacs and Pilot
• Preparation
  • Vessel Inspection
  • Provisioning
  • Crew Briefing
• Practical Celestial Navigation
• Heavy Weather Handling
  • Sail selection
  • Heaving To
  • Drogue
  • Sea Anchor
• Emergency Situations
  • Equipment Failure
  • Dismasting
  • Steering without a Rudder
  • Fire
  • Flooding
  • Abandon Ship
  • Safety Equipment
    • Jacklines
    • EPIRB
    • Radios
• Safety at Sea
• Flares and other Signaling Equipment
• Life raft
  • We usually arrange actual life raft and flare practice
• Watchkeeping
• Seamanship
• Crew Leadership
• Fishing!!! (mmm… Sushi!)