Learning How To Sail

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Learning How To Sail

• By Laura Schira

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Before you Sail

• Make sure you have a
• lifejacket that fits you
• properly.
• Notify someone you are
• going sailing, and when you
• plan on being back.
• Bring water and sun block!
• Check weather conditions
• to make sure you and
• your crew will be safe.

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Steps for tacking

• Tacking is when you change direction in a
  Sailboat.
• 1. First look around you to make sure that their
• are no other boats or objects around you.
• 2. Notify crew by asking Ready About?
• 3. The crew responds with Ready!
• 4. Then, the skipper will say Hard-to-Lee as he
  or she is
• In the process of turning.
• 5. The skipper will switch to the high side, or
  the opposite side of the sail, and the crew will
  switch sides as well.

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What does the skipper say when they are in the
process of turning?

• Here we go!
• Hard-To-Windward
• Hard-To-Lee
• 1,2,3Go!

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Try Again!

• Lets go back to the information and read it
  again

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Bravo!

• You answered correctly! Good Job Skipper!

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Bio Slide

• I am a senior at Western Michigan University,
  studying Elementary Education, Early Childhood
  Education and minor in Math, Science and English.
• I learned how to sail when I was 8 years old, in
  a youth 4-H sailing school in Charlevoix Michigan
  and have been teaching there for the last 5
  years.
• I am originally from the Detroit area, and hope
  to stay in Michigan when I get a teaching job.

• Laura Schira