Video - Learn to Sail with Steve Colgate
Nervous about your upcoming trip on your friend or co-worker’s sailboat? Has been a bit too long since you were last on the water? Don’t know the difference between port & starboard, fore & aft, or genoa & mainsail?
It might be time to order up a DVD and sit back in the comfort of your living room to learn a bit more about sailing before hitting the water. While videos are definitely no replacement for learning to sail with a sailing school, they can be a great preparation for your first lesson or your next trip out.
One such video - Learn to Sail with Steve Colgate - is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow sailing course for beginning and intermediate students. Aboard a 27-foot Soling, you are led through 106 minutes of exciting, easy-to-follow lessons by Steve Colgate, founder of the renowned Off-Shore Sailing School. This complete basic-to-intermediate sailing course will have you learning all the language, tips and techniques to make you ready for the water in no time.
Subjects covered include:
- Parts of a Boat
- Sailing Terms
- Sailing Knots
- Running and Standing Rigging
- Getting Underway
- Setting a Spinnaker
- Points of Sail
- Emergency Procedures
This DVD is available through Bennett Marine Video for $34.99.
Here’s a quick snippet of the course to get a taste of what you can expect from the DVD:
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