Sailing (MIT Tech Dinghy)
MIT OpenCourseWare's sailing curriculum teaches students to handle the school's Tech Dinghy safely on the Charles River. The material is organized as a sequence of skills rather than traditional lectures, each explained through short instructional videos and accompanying lecture notes covering rigging, tacking, jibing, capsize recovery, and right-of-way rules on the water. A full text on sailing the Tech Dinghy is included in the readings section for students who want more depth than the video demonstrations provide. Skill checks let learners gauge their own progress instead of grading them against a fixed exam, matching the course's stated goal of producing competent, safe sailors rather than racers. The course assumes no prior sailing experience and is meant to give newcomers to MIT's sailing program a foundation they can build on with other boats and other waters later.