All areas are assessed based on further development required by the student or they are performing the task consistently.
Balance
- Maintain optimal fore/aft balance when sailing
- Maintain neutral helm at all times while sailing
- Use body weight to initiate all boat handling manoeuvres
Boat Handling
- Perform all balance/sail trim manoeuvres in most effective sequential order
Sail Trim
- Tune up each day by lining up on a beat with a tuning partner
- Helm trim main for optimal speed while crew balancing
- Trim sails to keep leech telltales 2/3 flying
- Describe how to trim sails for apparent wind
- Describe how pre-bend affects luff and leech profiles
Direction
- Sail downwind in high and low modes
- Use body weight to drive through high and low modes
Head Up
- Head up and tack around a mark in a race
- Demonstrate a tactical rounding during a race
Bear Off
- Perform bear away at a mark while racing
- Perform a gybe set at a mark while racing
Tack
- Tack to perform a close cover while racing
- Tack to perform a loose cover while racing
- Tack to duck another boat while racing
- Perform a double tack to lay a mark and on a start line in a race
- Perform tacks without flogging jib (if using double handed boat)
Gybe
- Gybe from reach to reach
- Perform a double gybe to lay a leeward mark
- Select a wave to gybe while surfing
Stop
- Stop to leeward of another boat on a start line
- Find a hole and stop on a start line with over 5 boats
Go/Accelerate
- Maintain bow out position prior to accelerating off of a line
- Cross start line within 3 seconds of start
Down-Speed
- Slow down to avoid a leeward mark pinwheel
- Hold position for 1 minute at a start line
Seamanship
- Participate in a mock protest
- Describe purpose of postponement, abandonment, flags S and C
- Evaluate rig settings and adjust while sailing
- Describe how mast butt position affects rake
- Describe how wind flows over a sail
- Make a window repair on a sail
- Explain weather, lee and neutral helm
Tactics/Strategy
- Crew initiate tactical decisions upwind (in a double handed boat)
- Helm initiate tactical decisions downwind
- Form a strategic plan to incorporate wind, geography and tide
- Defend position on a reach, a run and a leeward mark
- Exonerate yourself from a penalty while racing
Physical Literacy
- Participate in a daily physical warm up prior to training
Mental Training
- Set skill/process based goals for training and racing sessions
- Maintain a written log book throughout training
- Participate in a regional or provincial regatta
Racing
- Participate in a regional training camp
- Participate in a regional or provincial regatta