First sailboat

[andylipsberg]

Sailing singlehanded is easy enough in almost any boat, whether it has lines back to cockpit or not, inmast furling or not, etc. It's getting in and out of marina berths singlehanded that is the difficult bit, and not something that someone doing sailing courses usually gets a chance to practice.

Of course the OP might be aiming to normally box berth in the Baltic, which might be slightly easier but still not a trivial job on your own.

exactly, nobody teaches berthing for getting the license. that should be done together with some crew, or some sailor who has already experience and can teach something.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

exactly, nobody teaches berthing for getting the license. that should be done together with some crew, or some sailor who has already experience and can teach something.

You have done well to get your yachting qualifications and my advice might have been different if I had known that - except perhaps on the economics where I would still advise caution . Owning a boat and being responsible for it and its defects and repairs is another learning curve but you are well set out for it.

In the UK my instructor spend some time showing how to berth in F7 and F6. His view was that having a jammed foresail in bad weather and gaining little from mere miles under main alone, we would learn much reversing in and out of berths in Swansea. T Bone berthing, stern berthing in case we went mediteranean, handing boat around the posts and such like.