ASA-103 Basic Coastal Cruising- 2 Days $495 pp
($445.50 for returning students/2nd person in couples) 
4 Students per class
Prerequisite: Basic Keelboat ASA-101
ASA-103 Basic Coastal Cruising is taught on board a 34 ft. Catalina sloop w/diesel, galley, head, full electronics and wheel steering.

**NEW**
Tracey School now offers ASA-101 & 103 year round in Florida! (Please call to discuss scheduling.)

Course Overview:
The next step in your sailing career.
Now that you know how to sail, you just might want to sail someplace special. This extension course to ASA 101 teaches the basics of how to cruise an auxiliary powered sailboat.
The course elaborates on lessons learned in Basic Keelboat Sailing, including safety, sail handling, the Rules and Regulations,  buoys, reading charts, weather, handling the boat under power, preparation, docking, anchoring and general seamanship.
When you have successfully completed this course you will be able to cruise safely during daylight in coastal waters. You will learn the secret of sailing- the greater pleasure lies in the trip, not the destination.

Detailed course description:

DAY 1

Classroom 0900-1130

Terms and definitions (Pg. 137)

Running lights (Pg.140)

Duties of Skipper and Crew (Pg. 142)

Rules of the road under power (Pg.143)

Essential safety equipment (Pg.144)

Review: Safety Harness & Deck Safety (Pg.91)

              Hypothermia (Pg.93)

              Refueling (Pg.153)

              Rules of the road under sail (Pg.77) 

              Approaching Divers & Dive Flags (Pg.80)

Review questions (Pg.150)

Lunch 1130-1200

Dockside 1200-1230

Check out vessel's gear

Engine check

Winch techniques

Knots: use of bowline, reef knot, figure eight,

           clove hitch, round turn & half hitch

Underway 1230-1530
Maneuvering under power

          Departing exercise

          Stopping under power

          Parallel docking

          Figure eight, half & full power

Sailing

          Function as Helmsman & Crew

          Giving commands & proper responses

          Tacking & jibing

          Sail all points of sail

          Reduce heel on all points of sail

          Lower sails

          Prepare boat for docking

          Return to dock under power

DAY 2

Classroom 0900-1100

Sail selection (Pg.163)

Weather (Pg.166)

Heavy-weather Sailing (Pg.171)

Reefing systems (Pg.173)

Magnetic compass

Preparing for coastal cruising (Pg. 174)

Review: Anchors & their uses (Pg. 119)

              Anchorages (Pg. 121)

             Chart symbols (Pg. 112)

             Aids to navigations (Pg.113)

Running aground & other nuisances (Pg. 175)

VHF protocol

Review questions (Pg. 179)

Lunch 1100-1130

Underway 1130-30

Maneuvering under power

          Leaving the dock

          Anchoring

          Person overboard exercise

Sailing

          Sailing a compass course

          Reefing the mainsail

          Heaving to & getting underway

          Person overboard exercise

          Lowering the sails

          Preparing boat for docking

          Return to dock under power

Practical Examination-through the underway session