REQUIREMENT 6 & 7 MUST BE COMPLETED AT A PRACTICAL WEEKEND AT CAMP OR IN PERSON WITH ANOTHER COUNSELOR.
6. Following the BSA Safety Afloat plan, show that you and a
buddy can sail a boat properly. Do the following:
a. Prepare a boat for sailing, including a safety inspection.
b. Get under way from a dock, mooring, or beach.
c. Properly set sails for a round-trip course approved by
your counselor that will include running, beating,
and reaching—the basic points of sail. While sailing,
demonstrate good helmsmanship skills.
d. Change direction by tacking; change direction by jibing.
e. Demonstrate getting out of irons.
f. Demonstrate the safety position.
g. Demonstrate capsize procedures and the rescue of a
person overboard.†
h. Demonstrate the procedure to take after running aground.
i. Upon returning to the dock, mooring, or beach,
properly secure all equipment, furl or stow sails, and
prepare the craft for unattended docking or beaching
overnight or longer.
7. Demonstrate a working knowledge of marlinespike
seamanship. Do the following:
a. Show how to tie a square (reef) knot, clove hitch, two
half hitches, bowline, cleat hitch, and figure-eight knot.
Demonstrate the use of each.
b. Show how to heave a line, coil a line, and fake down
a line.
c. Discuss the kinds of lines used on sailboats and the
types of fibers used in their manufacture. Explain the
advantages and disadvantages of each.