Mar 28, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 [Archived Catalog]

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REC 1180 - Sailing


Learn the basic elements of sailing, including terminology, rigging, sailing techniques, safety, and etiquette. Also gain personal skills in resourcefulness, balance, and self-reliance.

Credit Hours: 1
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Demonstrate basic maneuvers, such as trimming the sails, using the daggerboard, gybing, and coming about.
  • Demonstrate such skills as knots, rigging, de-rigging, points of sail, capsizing, recovery, tacking, and right of way.
  • Develop skills such as resourcefulness, a sense of balance, power of perception, courage, patience, self-reliance, and a love of nature.
  • Identify the parts of a sailboat.
  • Understand safety, rules of etiquette, courtesy, and nautical terminology.
  • Understand the elements of sailing; how the wind acts on sails and the water acts on a hull to make a boat go.



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