Prerequisites
US Sailing Bareboat Cruising (BBC) experienced sailors or equivalent experience.
Certification Requirements
Our Trimaran Endorsement is designed for sailors looking to become competent and confident on larger cruising trimarans. You’ll practice all the skills you need for chartering this yacht on the beautiful Puget Sound, or anywhere in the world. Upon demonstrating the necessary skill-set to keep the boat, your crew and yourself safe as the Skipper of the vessel, you'll be awarded a Windworks Trimaran Endorsement sticker for your logbook.
Pricing
WWSC Members $995
Non Members $1,495
Practical Skills
Successful completion prepares you to:
Maneuvering Under Power
- Demonstrate holding position, pivot turn around center and around each hull, starting, stopping and speed control.
- Demonstrate leaving and returning to a dock under power.
- Demonstrate making way and maneuvering upwind and crosswind in forward and reverse.
Sailing Skills
- Demonstrate the trim cycle for a trimaran, including the proper use of the traveler and/or boom vang. Demonstrate the use of a barber hauler when sailing off the wind.
- Demonstrate the specialized skills of tacking a trimaran.
- Demonstrate jibing, including proper control of the mainsail.
- Demonstrate shortening sail to depower the boat.
Overboard Rescue
- Properly demonstrate one of the overboard rescue methods under sail, taking into account the boat’s performance characteristics.
- Properly demonstrate one of the overboard rescue methods under power, taking into account the boat’s performance characteristics.
Anchoring Techniques
- Demonstrate the proper use of an anchoring bridle, including its deployment, retrieval, and storage.
- Demonstrate the use of two anchors off the bow.
- Pick up and properly secure to a mooring from the bow.
- Pick up and properly secure to a mooring from the stern.