Informações sobre o programa em português
Our summer curriculum is a series of skill-building courses for kids aged 8-18, outlined below. You can also read the full sailing syllabus by clicking here.
Students should bring clothes and shoes that can get wet, sunblock, a long-sleeved rash guard and hat, water, lunch (for full day programs), and a towel. If the weather is at all cool, a dry sweatshirt is also a good idea. For more information, click here.
Courses are 1 week long, from 9 AM to 3:30 PM, with half-day classes for Messing Around in Boats (9-noon) and Windsurfing (9-noon for beginners, 1-4:00 for Intermediate and Advanced Windsurfing — two weeks per session).
Check availability for all programs here:
Messing Around in Boats
A week of fun and games on the water for ages 8-10. This is a beginners’ course giving our students the skills to be safe on and around the water. Classes will include basic water safety, rowing, steering, and an introduction to the marine life of the Lagoon.
This course runs from 9 AM – noon, Monday – Friday
Full description
MESSING AROUND IN BOATS
Craft: Hartley 10s
Know, Understand or Demonstrate
Students will know:
- Wind direction
- Different types of boats
- Need for personal buoyancy
- The need to wear the correct clothing
Students will understand:
- How to put on a buoyancy aid
- How to be towed
- The effect trash is having on our seas
Students can demonstrate:
- Row a dinghy 15 meters
- Paddle a SUP 25 meters
- Steer an optimist being towed
- Name and collect three different types of molluscs and crustaceans
- Steer a pram drifting down wind
Will visit:
The Lagoon Herring run
Minnow
An introduction to sailing covering wind direction, parts of the boat, knots, rigging a Hartley 10 or RS Tera. Students will be able to demonstrate sheeting in a sail, initiating a tack, and more.
Full Description
Craft: Hartley 10s, Teras
Students will know:
- Wind direction
- Parts of the boat
- Sources of weather forecasts
- Need for personal buoyancy
- The need to wear the correct clothing
- Being properly prepared for a day on the water
- Capsize, how to stay with the boat
Students will understand:
- How to put on a buoyancy aid
- Wind Direction
- Parts of the boat
- How to rig an Hartley 10 or RS Tera
- How to be towed
- How to launch and recover a dinghy
Students can demonstrate:
- A reef knot
- Figure of 8
- Start and stop a sailing dinghy on a beam reach
- Fasten a line to a cleat
- Sheet in a sail
- Initiate tack
- Helming across the wind on a beam reach
Scup
Continuing from Minnow, this course continues to develop sailing skills and knowledge, covering rules of the road, how to deal with a capsize. They will be able to demonstrate rigging a dinghy alone, launching and landing with assistance, sailing to windward, and more.
Full Description
Craft: Teras & Fevas
Students will know:
- Effects of wind on water
- Basic rules of the road
- Respect of other water users
- How to respect the ocean
- 5 essentials
Students will understand:
- What are leeward and windward
- Dangers of a lee shore
- Sources of weather forecasts
- Types of personal buoyancy and clothing
- How to deal with a capsize
Students can demonstrate:
- Rigging a dinghy alone
- Launching and landing with assistance
- How to be towed
- Helming across the wind on a beam reach
- 180˚ tack
- Sail to windward
Mackerel
In this intermediate course, students will learn about tides, points of sail, and how to recover a man overboard. They will be able to demonstrate skills including launching and recovering alone, a 90˚ tack, gybe, sailing on downwind points of sail in up to 12 knots of wind, and more.
Full description
Craft: Tera & Feva
Students will know:
- Basic tides
- Dangers of sailing on tidal waters
- Basic sail controls
- Need to inform someone you are going on the water
- Safe sailing areas
- Beaufort scale
Students will understand:
- Up wind points of sail
- Down wind points of sail
- What you can do to decrease your impact on the oceans
- How to deal with an inversion, and how to avoid entrapment
- Basic rules of the road
- 5 Essentials
- How to apply rules of the road
- How to recover a man overboard
Students can demonstrate:
- Launching and recover alone (windward shore)
- Basic lie to
- 90˚ tack
- Sail on down wind points of sail
- Gybe
- Bowline
- Clove hitch
- Right a capsized dinghy
Swordfish
Sailing in Fevas, Teras, or ILCA (Laser 1), students will learn more about the weather and racing rules. They will be able to demonstrate roll tacks and gybes, sailing backwards, line starting, and the use of an asymmetric spinnaker.
Full description
Craft: Tera & Feva
Students will know:
- Different types of weather forecast
- Basic types of clouds
- Boat setup
- Difference between headers and lifts
- What are oscillating and persistent shifts
- The dangers of UV
- Different types of boat buoyancy
- Boat setup
Students will understand:
- Basic racing rules
- How to pick up a mooring
- How to set up a tow
- Basic start sequence
- Different race courses
Students can demonstrate:
- Roll tacks and gybes
- Launch and recover alone (lee shore)
- Line Starting
- Man overboard
- Coming along side
- Sail backwards
- Triangle – sausage course
- Tight circles
Racing:
Students will develop their racing skills and knowledge in a series of courses that will prepare them for competitive sailing on the high school or college level.
Windsurfing
Beginner windsurfing runs from 9 AM – noon, Monday – Friday
Intermediate and advanced windsurfing are from 1:30 – 4:40, Monday – Friday
Adventure
For the adventurous at heart, these courses teach skills required for day passages including rudderless sailing, application of meteorological and tidal information, passage planning, and navigation.
If you encounter any problems with registration, or have questions about the program, please phone us at:
508-696-7644 x1