Youth Classes for 2019

For our younger and/or first-time sailors, the morning will be spent learning first hand the fun of sailing. Our young new sailors will learn about boats, experience sailing with instructors and begin to develop a comfort level with boats. Following a morning of sail, the youngsters will walk to the neighboring YOU ROCK! School of Music.

YOU ROCK! is a fun new collaboration! On Monday you get to the facility and start a band. You name the band and write an original song. Wednesday the kids tie dye their shirts, Thursday there are band photos. Friday there is a performance for parents/friends!

Full day classes meet Monday through Friday 9:00 (drop-off at Edgewood Sailing School) to 4:00 pm (pick-up at YOU ROCK! School of Music, 1802 Broad Street, Cranston). Morning-only classes are available below and end at 12 noon at Edgewood Sailing School.

This program is being run in cooperation between Edgewood Sailing School and the YOU ROCK! School of Music in Cranston, Rhode Island.

For our younger and/or first-time sailors, the morning will be spent learning first hand the fun of sailing. Our young new sailors will learn about boats, experience sailing with instructors and begin to develop a comfort level with boats. Following a morning of sail, the youngsters will take a boat ride to the neighboring Save The Bay Center for a fun-filled afternoon of Bay-centered activities, fostering a love of Narragansett Bay in our youngest bay-stewards, featuring, for example, bay-exploration, playing the role of lobsterman for the day, or learning about creatures of the bay!

Full day classes meet Monday through Friday 9:00 (drop-off at Edgewood Sailing School) to 4:00 pm (pick-up at Save The Bay Center, Fields Point, 100 Save The Bay Drive, Providence). Morning-only classes are available below and end at 12 noon at Edgewood Sailing School.

Note that Save the Bay requires a minimum of 6 students for their afternoon ecology program. If fewer than 6 students sign up for this session, then afternoon activities will be at the Sailing School.

This program is being run in cooperation between Edgewood Sailing School and Save The Bay, Inc. of Providence, Rhode Island.

For our younger and/or first-time sailors, the morning will be spent learning first hand the fun of sailing. Our young new sailors will learn about boats, experience sailing with instructors and begin to develop a comfort level with boats.

Classes meet half-day Monday through Friday 9:00 to noon (drop-off and pick up at Edgewood Sailing School).

Opti Basic is an exciting, hands-on introduction to sailing held in moderate morning breezes. In Opti Basic, young sailors will develop specific sailing skills that will ready them for stronger breezes and competitive sailing.

Ages 8 to 13.

Opti Intermediate builds on the basics, introduces more independent sailing at the intermediate level, including the fundamentals of better boat handling and racing. An additional fee (payable to NBYA) is required, if attending the NBYA Opti Regatta #3 on July 31.

This is an intense program to polish racing boat-handling skills in preparation for end of season regattas. Sailor must demonstrate the ability to sail at his/her experience level in an NBYA large-fleet regatta, and be up for both joining the training and participating in the NBYA "JUNIOR OLYMPICS" RACE WEEK .

Schedule is organized during weeks leading up to Race Week.   An additional fee (payable to NBYA) is required for attending this NBYA regatta event, and other charges may apply.

Enrollment requires approval from the Instructor.

(Registration will be "wait-list" only, until student receives Instructor's approval.)

Combining introduction of the powerful 420 to 13+ year old Opti sailors with returning non-racing 420 sailors wanting to continue honing fundamentals of 420 sailing. Skills introduced and developed include rigging and use of sail controls, skipper and crew responsibilities, starting and stopping, docking and capsize recovery..

Boathandling skills are honed in the c420 racing dinghy. Confident, capable sailors learn how to sail a double-handed dinghy, both as a skipper and as crew. The older young sailors will experience thrill of sailing a faster boat with trapezes and spinnakers. Sailors work a full day of weather options, including the brisker afternoon winds, allowing for introduction of the more demanding performance. Additional regatta fees may apply for July 8 NBYA 420#1, Newport Regatta (7/14-15), and possibly NBYA#2. (Details furnished on-line by regatta organizers.)

Full days Monday-Thursday; only afternoons Friday.

This is an intense program to polish racing boat-handling skills in preparation for end of season regattas and the NBYA  "Junior Olympics" RACE WEEK.

Sailor must demonstrate the ability to sail at his/her experience level in an NBYA large-fleet regatta, and be up for both joining the training and participating in the Junior Olympics during NBYA Race Week.

An additional fee (payable to NBYA) is required for attending this NBYA regatta event.

Enrollment requires approval from the Instructor. (Registration will be "wait-list" only, until student receives Instructor's approval.)