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Requirements June 1972 until August 1982

1. Before doing other requirements, swim 100 yards as follows: 75 yards with any strokes. Then 25 yards on your back using an easy resting stroke. Then rest by floating as still as you can for 1 minute.

2. Describe the following:

(a) Sailing dinghy, catboat, yawl, sloop, ketch, schooner, cutter, and catamaran.

(b) Lateen, Marconi, leg-o-mutton, spritsail, standing lug, and sliding gunter.

(c) Jibs, spinnaker, mainsail, staysail, foresail, mizzen, and jigger.

3. Draw a Marconi-rigged and a gaff-rigged boat. Show in each drawing the following:

(a) The names of the sails and spars.
(b) The names of the sides and corners of all the sails.
(c) The names of the main parts of each. Explain their use.

4. Tell the general reason for the centerboard, keel and dagger board, bilgeboard, and leeboard. Tell their differences.

5. Describe how you would care for and maintain a sailboat and its gear throughout the year.

6. Do the following:

(a) Show how to tie the square or reef knot, clove hitch, bowline, figure-eight, sheet bend, slipknot, mooring hitch, and round turn with two half hitches. Tell the use of each.

(b) Show how to secure sheets so they don't jam. Properly coil and hang sheets or halyards.

(c) Make the following splices: long, short, and eye.

(d) Describe shipping, worming, parceling, and serving.

(e) Show how to throw a line. Show how to belay.

(f) Describe the kinds of fibers used in rope. Tell the advantages of each.

7. Know the sailing rules of the road. Include the following:

(a) Government rules of the road compared with the yacht racing rules in your locality.

(b) Rules about night lights on sailboats.

(c) How a sailboat legally becomes a motorboat.

(d) When a sailboat must keep clear of a motorboat.

8. List the safety gear and safety rules that are needed on a sailboat when under way.

9. Describe the safety procedures to use in the following: helping others, bad weather, running aground.

10. Explain the safety rules to use in the following: capsize, man overboard, picking up a tow.

11. Explain: center of effort, irons (in irons), luffing, apparent wind, loose-footed, wing and wing, and one design.

12. With the help of another person, show you can sail a boat properly by doing the following. Use proper safety.

(a) Get under way from a mooring or dock.
(b) Set the sails.
(c) Beat, reach, and run.
(d) Jibe.
(e) Reef.
(f) Anchor.
(g) Land at a mooring or dock.
(h) Furl or stow the sails.

13. Give a short history of the America's Cup.