Tailored Review Clinics - ASA 111
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Refresh Your Sailing - ASA 111 Clinic

Register for Tailored Reviews - ASA Course 111

Course Locations

White Bear Lake, MN

Medicine Lake, Plymouth, MN

Description

Primary Goal: To provide a non-threatening pathway for certified students to come back to Northern Breezes Sailing, an ASA sailing school, to refresh skill sets or to completely re-engage in sailing through focused instruction in requested skill areas.

ASA 111 Overview:
This one half to a full day on-water skills review clinic at the basic levels, ASA 111, is targeted to meet the needs of Northern Breezes graduates and other ASA certified sailors who either need a “refresher,” or those who sail more regularly who wish to get focused instruction in a few areas (e.g., docking, sail trim, etc.).
Since it is a clinic, not a (graded) course, all participating students receive credit for attending. Students receive a suggested curriculum sheet prior to class and receive a Recommendations Sheet from their instructor at the end of the course with instructor comments on their performance and, for example, notes on what they might consider as next steps. Students may take this course multiple times at several different levels. Since Northern Breezes has offered refresher courses for almost twenty years all of these will be rolled under the ASA 111 umbrella so that students will receive national and international recognition for their "refresher" accomplishments.

Northern Breezes will record a student’s ASA 111 clinic completion with American Sailing Association, (ASA). ASA will then mail students an ASA 111 logbook sticker.)

The clinic has no formal classroom component since the emphasis is on practical, on-the-water sailing skills. No exams or textbooks are required as part of the clinic. Northern Breezes will provide current textbooks to students if they desire them for an additional charge.

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Clinic Outline Adapted from "Student Suggestions"

At The Dock
- Safety & planning
- Should I be reefing at the dock?
- Boat parts & equipment

Underway
- Getting underway
- Sailing
- Points of Sail
- Sail Trim
- MOB
- Rules of the Road
- Maneuvering under power
- Docking
This outline is intentionally very general. Each clinic’s specific topics will be tailored to take into account:

1) the last ASA course level completed by students
2) Students’ recent sailing experience or lack thereof, and
3) Students’ requested topics for review or practice.

At Northern Breezes we often restate the obvious that this is your clinic, your experience. The more effort you put in upfront with "refresher topics" for example. The more expectations we will be able to meet!

Clinics are cancelled and rescheduled due to weather: no wind, too much wind, potential lightening or pouring rain. Sailing with Northern Breezes is not an endurance test. It is fun, safe learning of lifelong skill sets.

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Clinic Fees at the Basic Keelboat (Introductory Level)

Half-Day Option.
- Contact us for Single Rate or Couple's Discount. Limit three students per boat, must have two to be viable.

- Contact us for Family & Friends Option for up to three, Call for possible kid exceptions.

Full-Day Option.
- Contact us for Single Rate or Couple's Discount. Limit three students per boat, must have two to be viable.

- Contact us for Family & Friends Option for up to three, Call for possible kid exceptions.

Couples are defined as any two people signing up together. Family and friends option defined as any three people who sign up together.

Textbooks which are not required may be purchased. Cancellation Policy

We are flexible. If you would like day classes, private lessons, rides, refresher, etc. Please call.

Location to be determined. ASA 111 Clinics:

Clinic Schedule: To be determined (TBD).

Choose from Morning, Afternoon or Evening; and Weekday or Weekend.
Clinics meet for either one  3.5-hour session; or two 3-hour sessions with a lunch break.
Evening Classes are scheduled to conclude by the end of Civil Twilight.
Schedule may need to be modified based on availability of instructors and boats.

Contact us to arrange your review clinic.

Register for Tailored Reviews - ASA Course 111