For this series I suggest options for a specific Saturday a few weeks after the date of publication. I will concentrate on building skills and fun activities for all the crew to enjoy. I would encourage all confident skippers to delegate various activities to their crew, who then become ‘skipper’ for a given task.
The activities will be those that I would consider for a day of a sailing course and are pitched at Day Skipper candidates as well as aspiring Yachtmasters.
A key part of being a skipper is to explain ‘the plan’ to the crew, and I like to make good use of sketches on a whiteboard, as well as reference to the printed charts, so everyone knows what they are doing.
There is nothing like having to explain a plan to others, to clarify your own mind.
With just a single day at your disposal there is simply no time for relocating the boat before the start of the adventure, so I suggest different options for those berthed in Lymington/Yarmouth, the
