Youth Classes for 2025

Starter Sailor is for children who have never sailed before. The morning will be spent learning first-hand the fun of sailing on our Rhodes 19 keelboats. Helping children develop skills about boats, being comfortable on boats while learning with an instructor. In the afternoons, children will have lunch (brought by the child) and then have a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) lesson. Our STEM lessons will consist of learning about physics in sailing, ocean pollution and how to stop/help it, simple machines, and many other important concepts.

Our half-day option allows children who have never sailed before to experience sailing in the morning and have the afternoon free for other activities.

In our Opti classes, children will be divided according to skill level. Our instructors will get a feel for your child's skill level and put them in the correct group depending on experience, skill, and ability.

• Our Beginner kids will learn parts of the boat, rigging/derigging, boat etiquette & additional concepts.
• Our Intermediate/Advanced kids will grow on their concepts from beginner opti. Learning more fundamentals, learning about sail control and boat handling. Later in the week, kids will take all the knowledge learned from our other classes to begin racing.

In our 420 class (13 years and older), we will take the children who have graduated from Opti or are of appropriate age and introduce them to 420s. Our instructors will get a feel for your child's skill level and put them in the correct group depending on experience, skill, and ability. 

• In our beginner class, some skills introduced will include rigging and using sail controls, skipper and crew responsibilities, starting and stopping, docking, and capsize recovery.
• In our intermediate/advanced class, some skills introduced will be skipper and crew communication, roll tacking, starts, racing, trapeze, and spinnakers.