J/70 Helmsman Course
Club license for independent sailings on a J/70 sport yacht
Ivan Gureev, founder of Bora Sailing Club
"Do you want to gather friends, family, take a yacht and go for a walk around the Bay of Kotor without an instructor? Or maybe Lake Garda?) Or maybe somewhere else? Then this course is for you! Based on the results of the training, you will get the opportunity rent a sports sailing yacht J/70 without an instructor not only from Bora Sailing Club, but also from our partner clubs!”
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
This course is for those who no longer need to be told the difference between jib and mainsail and tack and breaches!
If you don't, that's okay, sign up for our J/70 beginners course.
But if you already know the terminology and basic sail handling skills, it's time to take J/70 to the next advanced level! And for that we will learn all the necessary skills.
BASIC INFORMATION:
Duration: 7 days.
Structure:
- Day 1 to 6: 1 lesson per day, duration - 3.5 hours, theory + practice,
- Day 7: exam.
Cost: 400 euros.
Base Marina: Tivat, Montenegro.
Yachts: J/70 sport yachts - equally good for those who want to try sailing and for advanced sailors! It is on these and similar yachts that our club license will allow you to sail. You can rent a yacht for racing or cruising: from us in Porto Montenegro and from our partner clubs (Zig Zag, X-Sailing, MoreSolka, as well as from our friends on Lake Garda and in Kaliningrad).
SCHEDULE:
DAY 1: meeting and getting to know the group; we remember everything we know: terminology, armament and disarmament of the boat, guiding the yacht to the target (against the wind, in the Gulf, full courses); stopping and accelerating the boat; in general, we recall the entire program of the J/70 course for beginner yachtsmen .
DAY 2: safety equipment; types of motors: electric motor and gasoline engine; mooring and unmooring under the motor: log, stern and bow; crew placement during mooring; guiding the yacht to the target; stopping at the target; reversing.
DAY 3: sailing only under the mainsail and only under the jib; windward and leeward gennaker cleaning; rescue of man overboard; mooring and unmooring under sails.
DAY 4 : practicing the exercises completed in the previous lesson; rescuing a man overboard if a gennaker is standing.
DAY 5 : broaching and exit from it; full cleaning of the jib; steering the boat using a roll; practicing moorings and man overboard maneuvers.
DAY 6 : work with a VHF radio station, navigation, weather forecasting and preparing the crew for going to sea; solving emergency situations; working on the main mistakes of students; exam preparation.
DAY 7 : passing the exam to obtain a club license.
UPCOMING COURSE DATES:
2025:
May 2025
THE COURSE INCLUDES:
- LOGBOOK - a personal diary to track progress throughout the course.
- Manual - training materials for preparing for classes.
- Video materials - consolidation of skills learned in practical classes.
- Homework - knowledge testing, analysis with the instructor.
YOU WILL ACQUIRE SKILLS:
- Genaker skill: setting, windward and leeward sweeps
- Getting out of broach
- Reefing sails
- Quick sail repair, complete jib replacement
- Steering the boat only under jib and only under mainsail
- Stopping and accelerating skills
- Steering the boat in reverse under sail
- Steering the boat with roll, working with the trim of the boat
- Steering a sailing keelboat under electric motor and gasoline motor attachments
- Mooring and unmooring lag, bow and stern under sail only
- Sail-only man overboard rescue in different wind conditions
- Basic weather forecasting skills, basics of hydrometeorology
- Basic navigation skills, preparation for sailing in unfamiliar waters
- Knowledge of the MHPSS and sailing rules
- Skill of work with VHF radio station, basic types of negotiations, first aid call.
- Knowledge and ability to tie all knots necessary in yachting
- Skills to work in emergency situations: breaking of boom, afterstay, halyards, jib and mainsail