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Sailing

Requirements

1. Have the Intermediate Swimming honor.

2. Know the “rules of the road” for boating.

3. Know how weather conditions and high wave conditions can affect safety and sailing performance.

4. What safety precautions should be followed when sailing?

5. With the help of a friend, do the following.

  • a. Get a sailboat underway from a dock, mooring, or beach.
  • b. Properly adjust sails for the following conditions:
    • i. Beating the wind
    • ii. Beam reach
    • iii. Broad reach
    • iv. Close reach
    • v. Downwind
  • c. Change tack by coming about and by gybing
  • d. Return the sailboat to a dock, mooring, or beach, and prepare it for being unattended

6. Know how to tie and use the following knots in sailing:

  • a. Square knot
  • b. Bowline
  • c. Clove hitch
  • d. Figure-eight
  • e. Two half-hitches
  • f. Mooring hitch

7. List ways to care for your sailing equipment throughout the year.

8. Have a knowledge of at least 20 terms used in sailing and their meanings.

9. Identify at least 15 parts of a sailboat.

10. Demonstrate the rescue of a person overboard.

11. Demonstrate what to do when a sailboat capsizes.

Answer key & resources

Master awards

This honor counts toward:

Investiture Achievement

This honor is required, suggested or listed as an option in:

Patch history

Earlier designs of this patch. See all outdated insignia.

Old Sailing patchOld Sailing patch

Sailing

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Sailing was originally a diamond patch as it was being piloted and tried out as a new honor. Sailing was originally placed in the Vocational category, but was later moved to the to the Recreation category.

Adapted from AY Honors/Sailing on the Pathfinder Wiki, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. See the original page's history for its authors.
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