RYA Dinghy Sailing Courses.

National Sailing Scheme Age 16+

The National Sailing Scheme is a series of short courses, each run over a number of sessions or two full days. Progress quickly from beginner to expert in a controlled, safe and enjoyable environment.

Our dinghy courses are held during the Spring to Autumn sailing season.

Level 1 - Start Sailing: A course for complete beginners. Learn how to sail in all directions and awareness of launching and recovery

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Level 2 - Basic Skills: Build your confidence and gain the skills needed to sail and make decisions in good conditions.

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Level 3 - Better Sailing: Improve your sailing consolidating skills and trying new ones in a variety of conditions.

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Youth Sailing Scheme Age 9 - 15yrs

The Youth Sailing scheme is usually completed in small dinghies suitable for the size of the sailor. Our expert instructors offer a safe environment for children to have fun, learn and challenge themselves.

Stage 1 - An introduction to the parts of the boat and the basic principles of how to get a boat sailing.

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Stage 2 - Develop the sailing skills needed to sail around a course tacking, gybing and controlling boat speed.

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Stage 3 - Build your confidence and develop the skills needed to sail in different directions in moderate conditions.

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Stage 4 - Learn how to sail a double-handed boat as crew or helm and solve a variety of problems afloat.

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Advanced Modules

Following on from the early courses in both the National and Youth Sailing schemes, you can choose one of the advanced modules below to suit your sailing interests. All courses are available to both adults and young people.

Day Sailing - Passage planning and decision making for taking a day sail in a dinghy

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Dinghy Seamanship Skills - Improve your boat handling and manoeuvring ability in a range of different circumstances and develop the seamanship skills needed to solve problems afloat.

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Sailing with Spinnakers - Everything you need to know to sail a boat confidently with conventional or asymmetric spinnakers.

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Start Racing - Having learnt to sail you may wish to start racing and join a club. This course takes you through the fundamentals of getting off the start line and round the course, introducing the basic skills needed to enter your first race or have fun with friends

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All courses need a minimum number of candidates to make running the course viable. We have a full list of the courses that we can run in the calendar. These are labelled as "Expression of Interest".

For each of these courses labelled "Expression of Interest" Members can book a ticket, now, to show that they would like to be offered a place on the next course. These "Expression of Interest" are all grouped together, the dates shown are NOT course dates, they are simply placeholders to allow the details to be easily located.

When there are enough candidates for a course, the training section will look to organise the course based on available resources and liaise with the candidates involved. The list of available courses can be seen by logging into the members area, going to "Events" and selecting the group

or follow this link.

All currently available courses are listed on the club calendar displayed on the dates that the course is taking place. To view these select the group

or follow this link.

Note both

and can be selected at the same time as shown here. To clear the selection click on the individual group or select the group "All".

For any queries, please email our course coordinator directly. courses@portchestersc.org.uk