Teaching Sailing This Weekend - Any Advice?

This weekend Raritan Yacht Club runs it's annual 2-day Learn To Sail course. It's free of charge, for people in the area to get an introduction to sailing, taught by the members. 

Part of the program is to get the students out on the water, learning how to get on and off a mooring, raise and drop sails, steer, tack, gybe, do a spinnaker peel, etc (OK kidding about the spinnaker peel).

Alice and I will be taking four unsuspecting newbies out on Cadence. Any advice or teaching tips are welcome, especially humorous ones.

Comments

[o docker]

I think the most important lesson for beginners is that the least experienced sailor has to bring the beer.

[Adam Turinas]

That's going to be a LOT of beer

[tillerman]

Teach them Estonian songs.

[tillerman]

http://frogma.blogspot.com/2012/06/more-amazing-estonian-song.html

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[Randy]

One piece of advice I found on the interweb, which I plan to use is to keep asking the newbs where the wind is coming from. As experienced sailors, it becomes so natural that we don't even think about it. But novice sailors know the wind blows, but don't easily capture the subtle distinction of directions and how it affects the sails.
Keep asking them "Wind!" and have them point to where the wind is coming from.

[Adam Turinas]

Randy that's actually very useful advice. Thanks

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[Victoria]

Enjoy it super lot's - you always know more than a beginner even if you don't think you do (you know what a boat, wind and water are - right?) and make sure you have a 'cover it' line for when they ask something you don't know - my favourite being 'that's a great question - in fact so much so that we are going to be doing some extra stuff about exactly this later on / after lunch / next week - thanks for asking!' (then go and weep in a corner, swot up on your books in your car or go throw yourself on the mercy of another instructor.....!)

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