Harness the wind — from learning to tack a dinghy on a small lake to crossing oceans. Anatomy of a sailboat, points of sail (close-hauled to running), how a sail actually works, sail trim & telltales, tacking & jibing, rigging, knots (bowline, cleat hitch, figure-8), mooring & anchoring, man-overboard recovery, heavy weather & reefing, storm tactics, navigation (charts, dead reckoning, GPS), tides & currents, marine weather & the Beaufort scale, COLREGS right-of-way rules, lights & shapes, VHF radio & MAYDAY, dinghies (Laser, Optimist), keelboats, multihulls (catamarans & trimarans), cruising & bluewater, maintenance, racing tactics, the America's Cup, the Vendée Globe, famous voyages (Captain Cook, Joshua Slocum, Moitessier), Polynesian voyaging, the Age of Sail, modern yacht design, and life at sea. 45 units, 675 lessons.