Aimed at complete novices aged from 8 up to 16, these four days of fun afloat will give your child a head start for some great summer sailing.

They will learn how to rig and launch a small boat with help where needed, sail across the wind, including both tacking and gybing, and also experience capsize in a safe, controlled environment. All of this is done through a combination of games and structured activities designed to help them learn whilst maximising the fun factor.

By the end of the four days your child can hope to have gained the RYA Stages 1 and 2 certificates, and should be able to come back to the club, hire a boat and go sailing whenever there’s a safety boat out.

Cost per child to include log book, boat hire and certificate £180, plus £26 membership.*

Typically aimed at the adult sailor or families with older children (12+), these RYA Level 1 and 2 courses combine to provide the knowledge and skills you need to be able to hire a boat and sail with relative independence.

As well as how to rig, launch and sail a boat you will learn some basic weather knowledge, how to sail safely, the basics of sailing at sea and some important skills such as man overboard recovery. For the first few days you might have an instructor in a larger boat with you, but once you’ve got the basics you could go it alone in a small single hander.

Cost per person (over 18) to include log book, boat hire and certificate £300, plus pro rata membership.*

During these two days you will learn how to handle a modern asymetric spinnaker, covering power zones and boat speed, balance, and how to hoist, gybe and drop a spinnaker. The course follows the RYA Sailing With Spinnakers syllabus from the National Sailing Scheme, with successful candidates receiving the certificate on completion. We will cover :

• How to rig the asymmetric spinnaker on the club double handers (2Ks, Fevas)
• The hoist, set and trimming of the spinnaker 
• How to gybe and recover 
• How to sail the best possible course downwind (introduction to apparent wind) 
• Capsizing with the spinnaker 

This is an advanced sailing course and we expect participants to have good sailing and seamanship skills. For youth sailors this would be a suitable course for those having already completed at least Stages 2 and 3 and we are also accepting adults.

Cost per child (under 18s) to include log book, boat hire and certificate £90, plus £26 membership if you are not already a member.*

Cost per adult to include log book, boat hire and certificate £150. 

Come and join us in Atlantis this summer! 

Boat Camp runs from Tuesday 23rd to Friday 26th August, 9.30am - 3.30pm.  We will be playing games and enjoying a variety of fun challenges and activities both on and off the water with an Atlantean theme, all aimed at helping young sailors to improve their sailing skills and make new friends, under the supervision of a team of volunteer RYA instructors. Plans are also afoot for the usual model boat race (so remember your recycled items!) and evening BBQ.

To take part, sailors must be able to sail to RYA Stage 2 or equivalent standard, with either a certificate or having been observed to be at that standard by a club SI, and aged under 14 years.

Your child will need a boat if they don't have their own so please add boat hire to your booking form and we will ensure that some of the double handers, Oppis and Toppers will be made available for the activities. Children are welcome to sail their own boat of course.

Places are available on a first come, first served basis. Be aware that we will require payment before places are allocated and that just 18 places are available. Boat Camp this year is £100 per child for the full four days. Please bring a packed lunch.

Boat Camp is not an RYA course and will not lead to us awarding RYA sailing certificates.  It is open to members only.