Sailing basics topics include:
- Aids to navigation - Meteorology (atmosphere and its phenomena, including both weather and climate) - Navigation (for various Sailing Situations) - Anchoring (anchor holds the boat by digging its flukes into the bottom, not by just lying there like a weight on the bottom) - Safety at sea (extremely important if you are heading off shore) - COLREG (International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea) - Tides and currents (Tides are the vertical movement of water caused by the gravitational fields of the sun and the moon acting on bodies of water. Tidal Currents are the result of water moving between high and low tides. Depending on where you sail your experience with tides and currents will vary.) - GMDSS 9automated ship to shore system using satellites and digital selective calling technology) and Electronics
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