Dinghy sailing course for beginners in Siracusa

Escape from the city and live an extraordinary sea experience!
Sicilying has arranged a dinghy sailing course for beginners. The aim is to teach you how to manage a sailing boat on the high seas.
The course, divided in 8 lessons (at least 2 lessons per week), will take place on-and-off board. Each lesson will last about 3 hours.
You will attend short lectures, practice manoeuvres exercises, and at the end you will be awarded with the IVF diploma. 


Upon booking you will have to choose the first lesson. The next ones will be agreed with the school .

Program schedule: 

- The hull: different types of hulls and its components. 

- Equipment and manoeuvres: mast, rigging, cables, nodes, blocks and tackles. 
- The wing: parts of the wing, wing shape, the reef, running rigging, types of wings. 

- Terminology: rest and luff, upwind and downwind, tack and gybe, starboard tack and left, tacking. 

- Point of sails: In irons, close hauled, reaching, running downwind

- Managing a sail boat: control of the wings, buoyancy control, ship stirring control. 
Manoeuvres: hauling the wind, bearing away, tacking and gybe.