1. How to use the yacht toilet
2. How to use an alcohol stove
3. Yacht kitchen utensils
4. Refueling the yacht
5. The fridge on our sailboat
6. The second fridge
7. Clothes on a yacht
8. Washing a sailboat
9. Internet on a yacht
10. Logbook

1. Basic parts of the motor
2. Checking oil level
3. Changing the engine oil
4. Replacing the fuel filter
5. Replacing the fuel pre-filter
6. Replacing the oil in the gearbox
7. Replacing the impeller
8. Replacing the antifreeze
9. Replacing the anode
10. Adjusting the idle speed
11. Adjusting and replacing the belt

1. Filling up your water tanks
2. Seawater supply system
3. Fresh water supply system

1. General video about electric system
2. Shore power
3. Safety precautions
4. Charging the battery from the shore power supply
5. Using the multimeter
6. How to tell if the battery is charged
7. 220 Volts from 12 Volts
8. Light bulbs and LED
9. Replacing the light bulb
10. Installing a socket
11. Solar charging system

1. Figure-eight knot
2. Reef knot
3. Reef knot practical example
4. Clove Hitch
5. Bowline knot
6. Bowline knot examples
7. Sheet bend and double-sheet bend
8. An example of double sheet bend
9. Hitch knot
10. Examples of using the half-hitch
11. Cleat
12. Cam cleat
13. Hawser clamp
14. Coiling ropes
15. Highwayman’s hitch
16. Blake's Hitch
17. Soft turnbuckle
18. Securing the mooring line

1. Determining the stern drift
2. Throttles or moving forward
3. How to steer with a tiller
4. Inertia
5. Circulations and figure 8
6. How to check where the sailboat is heading
7. Autopilot

1. Fenders
2. Types of mooring
3. Types of mooring equipment in marinas
4. Preparing for entering the marina
5. Searching for a place in the marina
6. Turning in narrow spaces
7. Bow mooring, theory 1
8. Bow mooring, theory 2
9. Bow mooring in a wide place, Renate, practice
10. Bow mooring in narrow circumstances, Renate, practice
11. Bow mooring in a tight spot, Nemo, practice
12. Bow-on mooring in difficult conditions. Practice. Renate. Part 1
13. Bow-on mooring in difficult conditions. Practice. Renate. Part 2
14. Bow mooring in a tight spot, Renate, practice 3
15. Dockside mooring. Theory. Part 1
16. Dockside mooring. Theory. Part 2
17. Dockside mooring. Practice
18. Stern-on mooring on a long-keel sailboat. Theory
19. Stern-on mooring on a long-keel sailboat. Practice. Stern drift to the left
20. Stern-on mooring on a long-keel sailboat. Practice. Stern drift to the right
21. Mooring with anchoring, theory
22. Springs for stern or bow mooring
23. Mooring recommendations
24. Difficult situations while mooring
25. Advisors during the mooring

1. How do winches work
2. The mast structure
3. Standing gear structure
4. The sail structure
5. Jib furler structure
6. Jib sheets
7. How to rear a genoa
8. The boom structure
9. The main sheet structure
10. The vang structure

1. Theory of sails
2. Points of sail theory
3. Safety of working with ropes
4. Mainsheet slide
5. The jib-sheet traveler
6. The windward and the leeward side
7. The headwind position
8. To tack windward and under lee
9. Starboard and port tack
10. Veering in and out
11. Setting sails
12. Setting and taking in the mainsail from the mast side
13. Adjusting the sails with dog vanes
14. Adjusting the sails on downwind courses
15. The tacking turn
16. Jibe turn
17. Nuances of sailing with autopilot
18. Taking the sails down
19. Installing the classic jib
20. Setting sails in fresh weather
21. The boom preventer
22. Drifting under sails
23. Reefing the staysail
24. Reefing the sail
25. When you should reef the sails
26. My reefing strategy
27. The theory of tacking
28. Autopilot

1. Theory of anchoring
2. General questions about the anchorage
3. Types of anchors
4. Searching for a place for anchoring
5. Anchoring practice
6. Anchoring without an anchor box
7. Anchor light
8. Alarm apps

1. Basic overview of a fixed radio
2. Basic overview of a portable radio
3. Range coverage of the radio station signal
4. Channels
5. Communication format
6. MayDay
7. Pan Pan
8. How to receive a signal
9. VHF is easy

1. What is COLREGs
2. Port and Starboard
3. Different statuses of a yacht
4. Basic rules
5. When to start maneuvering
6. Priorities for vessels up to 24 meters
7. Divergence of two motor vessels
8. Divergence of sailing ships
9. Divergence of oncoming ships
10. Divergence of vessels in narrow places
11. Overtaking
12. Using the radio when passing the ships
13. Determining the risk of collision
14. Lights and signs
15. Sound signals

1. Introduction to IALA
2. What floating marks consist of
3. Lateral marks
4. Forks in the channel
5. Cardinal marks
6. Isolated danger mark
7. Special marks
8. Mid-Channel marks
9. Light signaling in IALA marks
10. Chart symbols of different kinds of flashing
11. A real map example

1. Side drift
2. Paper maps
3. Electronic map
4. Mapping the route
5. Long passages
6. Keeping watch
7. Night navigation
8. Dangers at sea
9. Planning the passage
10. Currents

1. How to check the weather forecast
2. Accuracy of weather forecast
3. Beaufort scale

1. Finding a guest marina
2. Finding a marina for a long stay

1. Electric and automatic emergency water pump
2. Manual bilge pump for water in the hold
3. Oars as a safety measure
4. Seacock plugs
5. Signal horn
6. Fire extinguishers, engine fire
7. Fire blanket
8. Pyrotechnics
9. Radar reflector
10. Horseshoe life buoy
11. Life jacket, safety rope
12. Life line
13. Life raft
14. Satellite phone
15. Satellite tracker
16. AIS
17. First aid kit
18. EPIRB

1. Main safety points
2. MOB
3. How to make an emergency rudder from an oar
4. Diseases like appendicitis
5. Burns, bleeding, fractures and so on
6. Failure of electronics or navigation lights
7. Mast falling down and emergency sailing equipment
8. Fire
9. Lightning strikes the mast
10. Running aground
11. The consequences of sending out distress calls
12. Sails repair
13. MayDay and PanPan signals
14. Leakage, breach, etc

1. Extra ropes
2. Spare parts and consumables (excluding the engine)
3. Consumables and spare parts for engine
4. Tools

1. A raft for coming ashore
2. Navigator and echo sounder
3. Bow thrust
4. Old type of echo sounder

1. Conservation of the running rigging
2. Preservation of the engine for a long-term mooring
3. Preservation and cleaning of the water tank
4. Preservation of the sails
5. Preservation of the fuel tank
6. Preservation of the toilet
7. Preservation of the electric system
8. Should we take off the mast or not
9. Lifting and lowering the boat, antifouling, propeller
10. Keel blocks
11. Lifespan of rigging
12. Lifespan of sails
13. Changing the gelcoat
14. Patching the sail
15. Getting a man up the mast

1. Searching in Google
2. Searching on YouTube
3. Using YBW.COM
4. Using Cruisersforum
5. Using www.noonsite.com

1. Yacht license overview
2. Buying and selling a yacht
3. Yacht registration
4. Yacht insurance
5. MMSI
6. Yacht survey

1. Crossing borders
2. Guest flag or courtesy flag
3. Nuances in Greece
4. Nuances in Italy
5. Nuances in Turkey
6. Nuances in Tunisia

The course is focused on being an owner of a small sailboat (7–12 metres); these are the sailboats I usually show on my social networks.

Most yachting schools teach you based on the idea that you will rent a sailboat in the future. Besides, handling a small sailboat differs from handling the big sailboats which are used for practice in such schools. For example, setting the sails is done a bit differently, moorage processes differ and so on.

This is the knowledge you will not receive in most schools!

In my opinion, after you finish this course you will be more ready to own and make passages on a small sailboat. It is not self-advertisement, it is my point of difference. I am making the course for a certain purpose and it is different from the purpose of the schools.

This course is made for the members of our societies in social networks; my aim is to tell you about all the nuances you will need to know.

You can undertake the practice in any school after watching the course, you will only need to pass the practice there.

I also have a very good instructor with a lot of experience of off-shore passages on different sailboats (her last passage lasted for almost 2 months – it was an ocean cruise without stops and she went from the Canaries to Capetown).

Her prices are reasonable and I can forward you to her. Just contact me on social networks after you finish the theory.

This book gives you a step-by-step plan for buying an inexpensive but good sailboat in Europe. I give all the information from A to Z. What is more, the book tells how to prepare your sailboat for a passage shortly and sail it from Sweden to the Mediterranean Sea.

The book is electronic, it works on any device with browser, both online and offline (after the first download). Due to this solution you receive the book as soon as you purchased it and I can update it and add some more details (I'm doing it rather often).

To sum up: buying the book now you're getting all the future updates for free.

Check your email, I sent a special offer for my readers. If you didn't receive it - please contact me on Facebook, on Instagram or by email.Instagram

Just contact me on social networks and tell me your situation, I’ll do my best to help you.

Yes, you can purchase the book on my site https://how-to-buy-sailboat.com/ but my recommendation is to purchase the whole package because the course and the book complement one another.

Passing this course makes sense for you even if you are a professional sailor on a big bulk carrier because a bulk carrier and a sailboat are really very different and you will face completely new situations.

Even if you already took IYT or RYA courses you will find a lot of useful information in my course as well: my course contains a lot of information about choosing a sailboat, nuances while purchasing and maintenance.

What is more, in most schools they teach to handle some mainstream sailboats, but the smaller yachts which I usually show you on social networks have their own nuances. I talk about these nuances in this course as well.

You should go for your dream even if you do it slowly, even if you can't see how to reach it. And if you can't reach it right now you should aim towards your dream. In this particular case you do the first step. Usually it’s the most difficult one. Further on, life usually gives us some options and possibilities.

To sum up, you now have an option to do the first step. Will you do it?