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Dinghy Sailing

The Club offers frequent adult Start Dinghy Sailing courses which take you up to the RYA Level 1 or 2 level. These courses are suitable for 14 to 84 (at least) year olds. Once you have successfully completed the courses you will be competent to sail in light winds. The Club has a number of one and two-man boats you can borrow if you don't want to commit to buying your own boat immediately.

When you have had some practise and gained some experience you will want to improve your skills by attending the more advanced courses. Better Sailing, the Advanced Modules and the informal Improvers courses are good revision for all of us. The use of video gives you the opportunity to see yourself in action and can reveal those little flaws in technique which explain why you aren't leading the rest of the pack.

RYA Start Dinghy Sailing

This leads to RYA Level 1 or Level 2 depending on ability. Although presented as a single unit at the club this is made up of two parallel components: Level 1 Start Sailing is an introduction to the sport, covering the minimum knowledge required to get afloat under supervision, while Level 2 Basic Skills sets out the foundations of the sport, with the intention of the participants becoming competent sailors in light winds.

Frequency: normally 2 or 3 per year.

Improvers courses

A chance to revise and practise your dinghy skills. The content will depend on the participants needs and wishes, and the Instructors available. This course does not normally lead to a formal RYA certificate.

The Improvers course participants will be using their skills on the Sunday following, a normal racing day, and joining in the races.

Better Sailing

This RYA improver course seeks to bridge the gap between Start Sailing L1, Basic Skills (L2) and the Advanced Modules and is intended to make the transition easier for those sailors wishing to progress further through the scheme, allowing them opportunity to practice and consolidate their techniques and also have a taster of what some of the advanced modules have to offer. Syllabus.

RYA Advanced Modules

The Advanced modules are presented from time to time, when there is demand. Of the five RYA modules, only three are appropriate to our environment. Successful completion of each of these courses leads to the corresponding RYA certicate.

Seamanship Skills

The course covers launching and recovering the boat in different circumstances, stopping, reducing sail, recovering a man overboard, anchoring. By the end of the course you should be able to handle a boat in all circumstances and solve problems afloat.

Start Racing

The course seeks to build the confidence, skills & knowledge to take part in club racing in good conditions. it will cover all the skills required to enjoy club racing, including how to maximise boat speed and outwit your opponents.

Sailing with Spinnakers

The course covers how to rig the boat, gybe and recover one type of spinnaker, either conventional or asymmetric, and how to sail the best possible course downwind. By the end of the course you should understand how to sail a dinghy rigged with a symmetric or asymmetric spinnaker.

Much informal training goes on at other times -– the newcomer to sailing will find many members willing to assist and advise.

For more information please email.
 

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This page was updated on 01 February 2011