Students Home Port

Welcome to Students Home Port

Our Team:
L1 Head Instructor: Bill Lane
L1 Manager: John Tiley

Whos who on this page.

You can find a description of your Level 1 class here.
And your class schedule here.

Course documents for Level 1 classes can be found here.
Course documents for Advanced Level 1 classes can be found here.
Additional education documents can be found here.

How Do I Get Rated?

To use our Interlake sailboats on your own, you must first earn an ASI Level 1 rating. Obtain your L1 rating is simple and fun! Here’s how you do it:

1. Attend all classes: Intro to rigging, 2 shore schools(Zoom), 2 water classes. If you miss a class, arrange to make it up at Open Practice Sails or through Our Head Instructor who will assign you to a subsequent class.
2. Practice, practice, practice! Go on lots of practice sails and be sure to check your proficiency against the Water Test Form list of skills.
3. Attend Maintenance Class. You must do this prior to taking the written test.
4. Schedule a water test with a Test Instructor (a list is published in the Burgee or ask). Bring your sail pass and your water test form to the test.
5. Study your materials, including the text book, class notes, materials and documents from www.sailasi.org web site, then schedule a written test. Bring your signed sail test form and your sail pass to the test.
6. Students have two seasons to get their rating. If you cannot complete it the first season, you may obtain a second Student sail pass. After two seasons, if you still are not rated, you must retake the class at your expense.

Practice Sails

Read….What makes a Good Practice Sail?

After completing your Level 1 class and the Maintenance class, you may take as many practice sails as you like. these sails are fun and allow you to hone your skills before taking the Level 1 water test. These practice sails are always conducted with a rated ASI sailor aboard who will help you safely sharpen your skills.

The skippers for practice sails are all experienced sailors who volunteer their time and talents so new students can become proficient sailors. Many of these skippers are also instructors and keelboaters or racers.

The number of practice sails you may take is unlimited. You may contact our Level One Manager or Head Instructor anytime to arrange a practice sail. We also offer organized Practice Sails for students every Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday, and new this year we have Thursday evenings at Kent lake:

Be Sure to personally Confirm dates and times with your days organizer or the Level One Manager or head Instructor.
Information is provided in the club newsletter, the Burgee, and club calendar on this web site, Events.

WE ASK THAT ALL MENTORS AND STUDENTS CONTACT THE LEVEL ONE MANAGER TO JOIN OUR TELEGRAM GROUP TO SET OR ASK FOR A PRACTICE SAIL.

In addition we offer regular organized sails, see names and days below, its best to get on those mailing lists.

We offer a number of interesting videos and several are specific to students. Check out our informative student videos here.

Next steps

After becoming rated L1 what then ?
A good next step is join racing.
After a year of sailing(talk to the Education Director for details on time) at L1 come step up to Level 2. Talk to our Level 2 instructors for details.
Be sure to take the Boating Safety Class offered by the Coast Guard or Power Squadron.

Dock Master Workshops

This is a great way to earn volunteer hours, help your sail mates and learn about docking by watching situations others get in and out of. We encourage every student to come DM. Ask for a rated member as mentor if you desire. And if you see a need to help dock a boat please assist those boats.

Dock Master is mostly at Kent Lake and you sign up with dock master coordinator…see Burgee for details and link to Sign Up Genius.

We need Dock Masters at all club events and mostly at class times or practice sails.
In our dock box you will find instructions, emergency numbers, and a badge to wear, sign in sheet, and book hook.
We offer an overview at our Docking workshop and at our practice sails.