What is covered in Basic Keelboat (BKB) 101?
If you are new to sailing, you begin with 101 Basic keelboat Certification. BKB 101 includes boat parts (names/uses), sail parts, Rules of the Road, basic safety, basic sail theory (why a boat sails), and federal requirements for the type of vessel you would be sailing (i.e.: life jackets, fire extinguishers, flares, running lights, etc.). ………..Sailing skills learned include: sailing all points of sail through tacking and gybing; heaving-to (controlled drift to stop the boat for reefing, repair, or simply lunch!); reefing (reducing sail due to increasing wind/weather), and “figure-eight” man-overboard (MOB) recovery (as helmsman and crew) with correct commands/responses.
