Youth Sailing & Multi-Activity Courses
All our courses can now be booked and managed online. You can make a booking, make additonal bookings, swap a booking to another course (up to two weeks before course start), cancel a booking (up to two weeks before course start).
If there are no places available on your desired course date, you can opt to go onto an automatic waiting list, which will email you as soon as a place becomes available. A place will be held for 3 hours for you before being released to the next person on the list.
Payments are made on booking and can be paid by PayPal or Debit / Credit Card.
Adult Sailing Courses
CLYC runs the RYA National Sailing Scheme to teach adults, aged 19 and over, how to sail. The Sailing Scheme is formed of three core parts:
- Level 1 – Start Sailing
- Level 2 – Basic Skills
- Level 3 – Better Sailing
- Level 4 – Seamanship
Once these courses have been taken you can take advanced modules such as Sailing with Spinnakers and Day Sailing.
All National Sailing Scheme courses are taken over a period of 18 hours, by qualified RYA Instructors.The elements of the National Sailing Scheme are:
Level 1 – Start Sailing
The course provides a short introduction to sailing for novices. By the end of the course you will have the basic understanding of dinghy-handling techniques and background knowledge.
Level 2 – Basic Skills
This course builds upon the practical skills and theoretical knowledge taught in the Start Sailing qualification. On completion of this course, you will have a basic knowledge of sailing and be capable of sailing without an instructor on board in light winds.
Level 3 – Better Sailing
On completion of this course the successful sailor will be safety conscious and capable of sailing without an instructor on board in light to moderate conditions. This improver course seeks to bridge the gap between the Basic Skills qualification and the five advanced modules offered in the National Sailing Scheme by offering an introduction to each of the different modules.
Level 4 – Seamanship
Improve your boat handling and manouevering ability in a range of different circumstances and develop the seamanship skills needed to solve problems afloat. Launching and recovering the boat in different circumstances. Stopping, reducing sail, recovering a man overboard, picking up a mooring and anchoring.
Sailing School Contacts:
Our Senior Training Officer Dara O’Connor can be contacted by email using training@clyc.info. Dara manages our team of Senior, Junior and Voluntary Instructors, all of whom are supported by the clubs Committee members. We have robust Safety, Diversity and Protection Policies in place all of which are available below.
Senior Training Officer
Dara O’Connor
E: training@clyc.info
Commodore
Johnny Kennedy
E: commodore@clyc.info
Vice Commodore
Catherine McDonagh
E: commodore@clyc.info
We are often looking for Dinghy Instructors and Senior Instructors.
You can download the Application Form from the following link:
