Get the Credit: Sailing

Grade I
Awarded to boys who have attended regularly a course of instruction, and who qualify as follows:

1. Know the Water Safety Code.
2. Swim 100 metres in sailing clothes.
3. Know how to wear a life jacket.
4. Able to tie a reef knot, round turn and two half-hitches, and figure-of-eight knot.
5. Coil and throw a rope correctly.
6. Carry out, as a crew member, capsize drill.
7. Know the parts of a sailing dingy, and the basic terms used in sailing.
8. In a rowing boat, get under way, row a figure-of-eight course, showing that hands can be used in opposite directions, come alongside and moor up.
9. Act as crew in a sailing dinghy and understand Gybing Going about, Trim of Sheets, and where to sit

Grade II
Awarded to members who have attended regularly a course of instruction, who can demonstrate knowledge of the material contained in Grade I and in addition:

1. Rig and unrig a sailing dinghy.
2. Know how to secure and hoist a burgee.
3. Know the main Rules of the Road, including sound signals.  
4. Know the 16-point and 360º Compass.
5. Understand the causes and effects of the wind, including the basics of the Beaufort Scale.
6. Tie a bowline, clove-hitch and sheet bend.
7. Understand the basic movements in sailing.
8. Demonstrate launching, getting underway, sailing close-hauled, reaching and running, going about and coming alongside.

Grade II
Awarded to members who hold Grade II and have attended regularly a further course of instruction, who qualify as follows:

1. Know how to and when to reef a sailing dinghy.
2. Make an eye splice
3. Demonstrate heaving to, picking up a man overboard or simulated object, and coming alongside.
4. Carry out, as helmsman capsize drill using the "scoop" method.
5. Know about distress signals
6. First Aid - know how to treat possible accidents.