Classroom

Welcome to our classroom.

These pages were developed so that you can deepen your present understanding and knowledge of sailing, or if you are a novice, so that you can begin to appreciate this beautiful sport.

We try to make these lessons as interesting as we can, and do them about all the subjects that we think you might want to know about. However, we would really appreciate if you gave us some feedback whenever you feel like it - this way we will know whether we are on the right track. Tell us what you want to know, whether the way we present the subject is coming across well, and anything else you might think about...

here are the email addresses:

Ina: ina@sailfree.com or Arek: arek@sailfree.com

And the following are the lessons...

Lesson 1: "How does it sail, anyway?"

Lesson 2: "The Beaufort Wind Scale"

Lesson 3: "Points of Sail"

Lesson 4: "Minimum Required Safety Equipment"

Lesson 5: "Strongly Recommended Equipment for Cruising"

Lesson 6: "Sail Maintenance"

Lesson 7: "Attaching the Sails"

Lesson 8: "Waves"

Lesson 9: "VHF Channels (Canada)"

Lesson 10: "Dead Reckoning"

Lesson 11: "Sea Sickness"

Lesson 12: "Evolution of the hull - part I"

Lesson 13: "Evolution of the hull - part II"

Lesson 14: "Rules of the road"

submitted by Dan Donaldson "Essentials of a Marine Boat Alarm System"