Hello everybody! Welcome to my free beginners’ online sailing course. This lesson is designed to prepare you for a practical sailing course or as an accompaniment to it. But it is also excellent for people…

I start with some basic things and the explanation of terms but I do not go too deep into details. There would be too much information at the beginning. For those who are interested in…

In this chapter I explain why a sailboat moves forward in the first place. People who are not interested in the theory can skip this chapter and start right away with the Points of Sail.…

In the last chapter we have learned that it is not possible to sail directly into the wind and the first point of sail is called close-hauled. But what happens when we continue to turn…

In the last chapter we bore away from close-hauled to beam reach and learned how to trim the sails in the proper manner. Now we want to see what happens, when we go on to…

In the last chapter we learned about the point of sail broad reach. Now we want to see what happens, when we keep on bearing away. The next course is called sailing downwind or running.…