Junior Learn to Sail - Level 1 (Mar 2020)

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Sat 07 Mar 2020 10:00 — 12:00

South Brisbane Sailing Club, 68 Hill End Terrace, West End, QLD, 4101

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Junior Learn to Sail (Level 1) @ South Brisbane Sailing Club

Start your sailing journey at SBSC

Starting Sat 7 Mar 2020 until Sat 4 Apr 2020 from 10:00 AM until 12:00PM

Ideal for enthusiastic kids from 10-14 years and their active parents keen to support their child's sport of choice.

Two hours per week on Saturdays for 5 weeks will get you child moving on their sailing journey!

The cost is just $295 for five weeks of fun in the club's new O'pen Skiff dingies (formerly known as O'pen Bics see https://openskiff.org.au/)

The course wll allow your child to sail a dinghy with confidence. By the end of the course your child will be able to:

Steer with tiller extension under towing paddling power
Tie a figure 8 knot, round twice and two half hitches
Tack (push turn)
Gybe (pull turn)
Reach around a figure of 8 course using both tacking and gybing
Sail with tiller extension
Sail upwind and downwind by following the safety boat

Your child's Sailing Instructor Connor Williams is an experienced junior sailing instructor from Noosa who has taught junior sailing in a range of small craft for over 6 years.