• Saturday, September 6  

7:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 

• Includes HMR specific and aligned Safety at Sea sessions

• Participants are welcome to stay for sessions until 5:00

• $0 - Zero Fee

• Meets HMR SER requirement 4.3.2.1

• Does NOT meet SER 4.3.2

• Continental breakfast included

The Harvest Moon Regatta® Safety Day is for competitors in the regatta and satisfies the requirements in the Harvest Moon Regatta® SERs.  The day begins with 3 sessions of HMR race-specific importance: a race overview, waterways and safe harbors, and the Yellowbrick tracking system.  

The full day’s safety sessions are aligned with the US Sailing Sanctioned Coastal Safety at Sea Course with instructors from Storm Trysail Club and US Sailing Safety at Sea alongside our HMR leadership.

Register for the Harvest Moon Regatta Safety Day

• Saturday, September 6 

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

• $85 fee includes US Sailing Offshore Safety at Sea Certificate

• Meets US Sailing SER requirement 4.3.2

• Does NOT meet HMR SER requirement 4.3.2.1

• Continental breakfast and lunch included

This course is for crew members of offshore races, long-distance cruisers, and any sailor wanting to improve his/her sailing skills. This course is also the first step for crew members of long-distance and international offshore races, long-distance cruisers, or persons requiring the International Offshore certificate that complies with World Sailing guidelines for Personal Safety (World Sailing Offshore Special Regulations Appendix G compliant).

The in-person course covers 8-10 units listed in Appendix G of the OSRs including Giving Assistance, Personal Safety Gear, Care and Maintenance of Safety Gear, Fire Safety, Crew Overboard, Marine Weather, Heavy Weather, Storm Sails and Reefing, Damage Control, Search and Rescue, Signals, Emergency Communications, and Life Rafts and Survival.

• Saturday, September 6 

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

• and Sunday, September 7 

7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

• $385 fee includes World Sailing-Compliant US Sailing Sanctioned International Offshore Safety at Sea with Hands-On Training Certificate

• Continental breakfast and lunch included

Register for US Sailing Sanctioned International Offshore Safety at Sea Course with Hands-On Training (2-day)

About the Hands-On Seminar

This two-day seminar is led by Storm Trysail Club and US Sailing moderators.  The detailed, interactive curriculum gives hands-on experience with damage control, distress signals, firefighting, storm sails, water survival, life rafts, crew overboard (COB) rescue, and more.  Hands-on stations include:

• On the Water: Latest advances in crew overboard recovery, setting storm sails, emergency steering, and emergency response.

• In the Pool: Practice life raft use, foul weather gear and PFD inflation, combating hypothermia, individual and group survival.  Learn the best ways to stay afloat, work as a team, right and board a life raft.  An inflatable personal flotation device (PFD) and tether are required equipment for realistic training.  If you don’t wear a PFD like you would offshore, it isn’t realistic.

• Firefighting and Pyrotechnics: Outside session with firefighting instruction for multiple scenarios and the use of flares and pyrotechnics.

• Damage Control: A comprehensive, hands-on session covering emergency repair, search and rescue, emergency communication, and much more.

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