Waszp Lesson (Group W2)

Start
07 Jun 2025
End
14 Jun 2025
Schedule
2 sessions
#1.
07 Jun 2025, 10:00 14:00 (PDT)
#2.
14 Jun 2025, 10:00 14:00 (PDT)
Location
Meet under the white tent near Jericho front entrance
Spaces left
3

Registration

Waszp Lesson Participant – $275.00

This advanced lesson series is for Club Locarno Members who are part of the Sailing Fleet. The Waszp is a foiling skiff, which is a fun challenge for experienced sailors. This lesson series will teach the basic skills necessary to get checked out into the Waszp buddy system (the ability to take the boat out for a solo sail requires a separate checkout after you have had some time on the water to further develop your skills).

Required sailing skill pre-requisites:

Comfortable rigging and sailing a Laser (a Laser will be used on Day 2 of the lesson).
Experience using sail controls to quickly change your sail shape in light, medium, and heavy breeze
Good/Fast double handed sheeting
Confidence in skippering a boat in 15+ knots of wind and in gusty conditions
Comfortable/physically capable with repeatedly righting a capsized vessel for at least 20 minutes.
Well versed in Collision Regulations and/or Racing Rules of Sailing (you've ideally participated in several local races).
Willingness to adhere to the approximately 30 minutes of pre/post flight checks required every time before/after sailing the WASZP.
Ability to approach the challenge of foiling with a growth mindset.
A demonstrated ability to make good judgement calls before launching and while sailing to prioritize safety of the sailor and vessel.

This lesson series includes:

Two 4-hour sessions
Day 1
- Learning the Locarno Buddy System procedures
- Introduction to the theory behind foiling
- Introduction to the parts of the Waszp
- How to rig, launch, and land the Waszp
- Sailing the Waszp with one wing touching the water
- Sailing the Waszp in displacement mode with both wings dry
- Accelerating the boat to achieve first straight line flights
- Displacement tacking and gybing
Day 2
- Practicing all the skills from Day 1
- All participants will get a chance to practice launching and landing the Waszp in a buddy system setting.
- How to switch sailors between a Laser and Waszp during a buddy sail
- Discuss how a motorized rhib needs to approach a Waszp in order to wing up (in the event of a rescue, the member will have to instruct the driver how to do this).

Successful completion of this lesson will be considered passing the rigging (part 2) and on-water (part 3) checkouts for the Waszp buddy system. Before you will be granted sign-out privileges for the Waszp, you will have to complete a separate orientation clinic (part 1). This is to ensure you get an introduction to the Locarno clubroom, sailing fleet rules, etc. This checkout will be run by a volunteer; all efforts will be made to schedule it immediately following the Day 2 lesson.

Documents outlining Waszp procedures can be found on the Club Locarno website following this pathway: Sail > Sailing Documents and Links
https://www.clublocarno.com/Sailing-Documents-and-Links

Registration:

Registration closes 48 hours before the first lesson.
A minimum of 2 participants is required for a lesson series to run.
Members will lose a lesson if they miss it.
Members can make up a lesson ONLY IF the instructor agrees, there is another set of lessons of the same type already scheduled, and there is space in the lesson. All of this is to be discussed between the Mac Sailing instructor and the participant.