GTSC Keelboat Class Materials -- All Years
Lake Lanier Map
Georgia DNR Boating Regulations
Coast Guard Nav Rules homepage
RORC Quick Stop MOB method
North Sails J24 Tuning Guide
GTSC Keelboat Class Handouts and Lecture Notes for 2005
Taught by Davis King and Greg Matthews
Note that some sections of the class do not have lecture notes.
Sailing Safety
Right of Way
Sail Controls
Sail Care and Trim
Aids to Navigation
Charts and Navigation
Docking and MOB
Boathandling
GTSC Boats
Motors and Maintenance
Weather.doc
2005 Class Notes Bibliography
Notes from previous keelboat classes, especially 2004, 2003, and 2001
the websites listed above for Class Materials -- All Years
Elbert Maloney and Charles Chapman,
Chapman Piloting:Seamanship and Small Boat handling
Frank Bethwaite, High Performance Sailing
C. A. Marchaj, Sailing Theory and Practice
Wallace Ross, Sail Power
John Mellor, Handling Troubles Afloat
Gary Jobson and Peter Isler,
"Tragedy Hits Home,"
Sailing World, August 2002.
GTSC Keelboat Class Outline 2001
Class 1
1. General
· Lake Lanier stuff (chart, markers, reefs, etc.)
· Aqualand stuff (head pump-out, parking passes?, etc)
· Required DNR equipment
· GTSC keelboats and general characteristics and operating practices
· Responsibilities assumed by keelboat skippers
2. GTSC Maintenance
· Motor use and maintenance
· Head use and maintenance
· Electrical systems use and maintenance, charging, etc.
Class 2
3. General Seamanship
· Parts of the boat, sail trim, spinnaker sailing pp. 219-234
· Under sail, under power, docking pp. 211,234
· Dock lines, mooring, anchoring, rafting up pp. 200-203, 253
· Aground, whipping lines and boat care p 248
4. Safety
· General requirements for safe boating pp. 60-113
· Man overboard and rescues pp. 92-95
· Distress signals pp. 84-85,130
· PFD types, maximum occupancies, etc. pp. 64-65
5. Rules of the Road / Right of Way
· Navigation rules for International and Inland (COLREGS 1972) p. 116
· Definitions and required actions (giveway, standon, etc.) pp. 121-122
· Order of ROW for vessels p. 122
· Maneuvering and collision avoidance pp.124-130
Class 3
6. Aids to Navigation
· Ships lights and markers pp. 135-151
· Day beacons, bouys, gongs, bells, etc. pp. 501-518
7. General Navigation
· Compass, deviation, variation pp. 366-391
· Charts, latitude, longitude, features p. 392
· Piloting, dead reckoning, lines of position, fixes pp. 427-460
Class 4
8. Weather
· Clouds, fog, etc. pp.298-305
· Beaufort scale p. 306
· Pressure systems and fronts pp. 308-327
· Adverse weather and boat handling p. 241
· Cold weather precautions, first aid (100-114)
9. Tides and Currents
· Why do they exist p.329
· Types of tides (3), definitions, etc. pp.330-331
· Tide tables p. 334
· Currents p. 340
(Page numbers refer to Chapman's Piloting)
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