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Offshore safety & survival training

Whether you are an offshore racer, a seasoned skipper or a crew member headed offshore, we invite you to learn how to prevent damages and injuries on a seagoing sailboat and how to react and lead a crew in emergency situations.
This intensive training includes participatory exercices and lectures, equipment demonstrations and practical exercises. Participants need to be in good physical condition as there will be wet drill in a pool, including emergency simulation training involving foul weather gear swimming and life raft boarding and righting.

WINTER 21 Monday Group	WINTER 21 Thursday Group
REGISTRATIONS HERE	REGISTRATIONS HERE
Date & Time Monday March 1^st, 6-8 PM Monday March 8, 6-8 PM Monday March 15, 6-8 PM Monday March 22, 6-8 PM Monday March 29, 6-8 PM Monday April 5, 6-8 PM Practical exercises: in April (to be confirmed according to the evolution of the COVID situation)	Date & Time Thursday March 4, 6-8 PM Thursday March 11, 6-8 PM Thursday March18, 6-8 PM Thursday March 25, 6-8 PM Thursday April 1^st, 6-8 PM Thursday April 8, 6-8 PM Practical exercises: in April (to be confirmed according to the evolution of the COVID situation)
Location Theoretical sessions will take place online, by videoconference.	Location Theoretical sessions will take place online, by videoconference.
Price FVQ Member: 490$ + Membership Non-member: 560$ Sail Canada Instructor: 490$	Price FVQ Member: 490$ + Membership Non-member: 560$ Sail Canada Instructor : 490$
REGISTRATIONS HERE	REGISTRATIONS HERE

IMPORTANT

The participant must bring his own Personal Floating Device (PFD), one rearming kit if it is an inflatable one, and foul weather gear. Please take into account that it will be submerged in chlorinatedpool water then rinced after the end of the exercices.

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Training content

Selection, maintenance and inspection of security equipment suitable for offshore sailing:

      • PFD (traditional and inflatable), security harnesses and lifelines.
      • Life rafts, inflation and release mechanisms and casting off techniques.
      • Communications tools between craft, land and /or rest of the fleet.
      • Emergency signals and beacons used to facilitate search & rescue.
      • Fire prevention and fire-fighting equipment.
      • Storm sails, floating anchors, drogues and emergency rudders.

Man overboard prevention and recovery techniques
Weather forecasts: how to get them offshore, interpretation and proactive decision-making.
Heavy weather: how to prepare the crew and the boat on deck and inside.
Storm sails and heavy weather sailing: equipment and techniques to sail in strong winds and big waves with minmal damage and injury risk.
Damage control and repair: how to deal with water ingress, fire, grounding and dismasting.
Hypothermia: how to prevent it onboard, in the water and in the life raft.
Deploying, righting and boarding a life raft.
Serach and rescue and providing assistance to another boat
Abandoning ship: when, why, and how.

This training meets ISAF requirements and is designed to prepare skippers and crewmembers to minimize risks and injuries on board and react promptly to damages and emergencies at sea. The training is adapted to modern sailing technology, either cruising or racing. All instructors are survival at sea experts, experienced seamen and professional sailing instructors with proven teaching skills. All instructors have been trained by Canada's leading offshore racers and experienced sea survival instructors.

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(514) 252-3097.

Offshore safety and survival training

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