Anytime Membership entitles a person to sail our beach-launchable dinghies and catamarans any day of the week. To qualify for anytime membership you:
- Pass a written test of general sailing knowledge.
- Pass a sailing skills test on each type of boat you wish to sail.
You can move at your own pace. Just take the one-time written test, or take the written and a skills test on your favorite beach boat. Then take additional skills tests whenever you’re ready to add more boats to your anytime list. It’s up to you. Your annual Anytime Membership covers ALL the beach boats you want to sail.
Testing is provided on selected Club Sail Days. Members can signup for written and/or skills tests HERE.
Anytime Members provide leadership on Club Sail Days. You’ll be expected to volunteer as Beach Captain, Beach Assistant or Safety Boat Operator for two club sail days each year.
Written Test
This is a test of your general sailing knowledge. You will only need to pass this closed-book test once. A passing score is 90% or greater. Members can find study guides for this test on the Sailing Instructions page HERE.
Skills Test
You will need to demonstrate the following skills to two of our approved staff for each boat you wish to sail. These skills are taught in our Sailing 101, 102 and 103 classes, and may be practiced on Club Sail Days.
- Candidate must demonstrate that they know the locker location and proper equipment gathering procedures for each boat on which they are applying to become a skipper.
- Candidate must verbally state the importance of locking the lockers after extracting equipment.
- Candidate must state what the wind and wave conditions for the day will be and explain where they found this information and how to find it in the future.
- Candidate must demonstrate knowledge of boat positioning before beginning rigging.
- Candidate must rig boat properly without assistance.
- Candidate must safely transport boat to the beach launching area and position correctly while rigging main sheet, raising sails, installing rudders, and any other miscellaneous preparations.
- Candidate must place mooring buoy and explain to instructor how the buoy might be placed differently for other wind directions or different current and wave break situations.
- Candidate must demonstrate proper launching technique without assistance.
- Candidate must properly execute sailing away from beach without assistance.
- Candidate must perform two proper tacks.
- Candidate must perform two proper jibes.
- Candidate must demonstrate that they can sail close hauled.
- Candidate must demonstrate proper downwind sailing.
- Candidate must perform a man overboard drill with MOB buoy.
- Candidate must show proper procedure for getting out of irons.
- Candidate must do proper beach landing.
- Approach beach from proper direction according to the wind,
- Daggerboard halfway up on approach,
- Execute proper turn into the wind for stopping,
- Daggerboard out before exiting the boat,
- Attach boat to buoy,
- Raise or remove rudder,
- Remove main sheet (lower sails if appropriate),
- Load boat onto beach dollie and remove from the water
- Candidate must properly de-rig Boat without assistance.
- Candidate must demonstrate proper tidying of lines and equipment in storage in bags.
- Candidate must demonstrate proper procedure for loading equipment into storage lockers and proper locking of lockers with anti-theft bars.
- Candidate must properly return boat to its correct position in the yard and demonstrate proper locking of security wires and padlocks.
- Candidate must explain procedure for reporting any lost or broken equipment.
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