TPS Session Night
TPS Session 2025
This Session
This session is a NIGHT session. Its aim is to allow participants to experience the River Forth by night, a very different experience, where navigation is by lights rather than landmarks. Such practice will assist any sailor doing RYA skipper qualifications.
All participants must have a light on their lifejacket. A clip on auto-light can be purchased from Bosun's Locker for around £20.
General description of TPS
TPS is group-lead. We pick a skipper-task for the session, probably one we're all supposed to know how to do, but haven't actually done before, or done on THIS boat. When did you last recover a human-weight MOB... in heavy weather... at night? And all the REAL challenges that presents. This is why we practice these skills in TPS, so that you've got some familiarity for when you need it.
What we will do on each session depends on what the participants (you) have on the wish-list to practice. After booking, email Scot Corrigan with the email detailed on the booking confirmation with practice suggestions.
In the past we have covered (and might revisit)
ON THE WATER PRACTICE
- Man Over Board (MOB) recovery under sail, using a bucket and fender MOB and using Fred, the Club's 40kg dummy.
- Anchoring and weighing anchor under sail
- Reverse sailing
- Night sailing by lights on the Forth
- Calculating and TESTING a Course to Steer (CTS)
- Berthing under sail and leaving under sail
- Spinnaker flying
- Towing under sail
- Springing off a pontoon in adverse weather
- Berthing a boat to a pontoon single handed
- Creating a deviation card for a specific boat
Much more...
IN THE CLUBHOUSE PRACTICE
- How a 2 stroke works and common problems
- Passage planning for trips on the Forth
- Col Regs quiz
- Lights, marks, shapes quiz
- Knots, better knots, better ways and different ways to tie a familiar knot, knots from land trades that mariners should know
Last updated 3:16pm on 3 April 2025