Racing - Women's Sailing Association of Santa Monica Bay

HomeClinics

Learn new skills, refresh existing skills, and refine specialized skills.

WSA SMB clinics feature a combination of shoreside seminars and on the water sessions. We’ve developed techniques that make the best use of your time. These on the water programs are great fun, and as a bonus, you’ll be a better sailor.

Basic Seamanship Clinics

Competence in seamanship is important for every sailor, no matter their experience. Basic seamanship encompasses a broad mix of skills. We'll cover basics of rigging a yacht, sail trim, weather, navigation, and safety.. all the skills necessary to be a safe, confident, happy and proficient sailor.

Racing Clinics

Racing a sailboat is a complicated affair. Successful racing requires strategic planning, tactics, an understanding of the rules, and skilled crew. Starts can be chaotic. Upwind Strategy requires that you how to predict and then take advantage of changing winds and wind shifts. Downwind requires knowledge of reaching and running strategy and tactics. This includes strategies for in various wind, wind shift, and current scenarios

Cruising Clinics

Cruising is sailing and much more - navigation, night sailing, tides and currents, wind shifts, engine care, heads, dinghies, all these present challenges. Safety, knots, anchoring & docking, surprise squalls and storms, reefing, heaving-to..all of these topics are important to know when cruising.