Sailing builds a sense of adventure, confidence, a strong mental ability, is a healthy physical activity and best of all . . . . builds great friendships amongst your new sailing friends.

We offer courses for children aged 6 - 17 years, 20 participants in a group and you do not need any previous experience.

Our instructors and assistant instructors will target the program to the abilities, ages and levels of confidence within the group of children.

We supply the boats, seven RS Feva's, all the sailing equipment as well as lifejackets.  The children will all receive a certificate upon completion of the course.

As a course participant you should bring/wear swimmers, boardshorts, a long sleeve t-shirt/rash shirt, a hat & suncream and an old pair of sandshoes or wetsuit material wet-shoes to protect your feet.  If you happen to have a wetsuit or wetsuit shorts they would be useful (however not required).

The course fee includes the use of club equipment including FEVA boats and lifejackets.

$140.00 per participant 

Course Dates

Monday 20th January 2020 to 24th January 2020  

Morning Session - 9am to Noon

Afternoon Session 12.30pm to 3.30pm

Should you have any questions, please contact Danny or Nadine in the Sailing Office on d.anderson@16s.com.au; n.steenson@16s.com.au or 49 45 08 88 (Danny) 49 45 77 22 (Nadine)

Club Membership

Please be aware that Belmont 16ft Sailing Club sailing equipment can only be used by Club members [as required by The Maritime Safety National Law Act 2012].  It is therefore a requirement that a parent/legal guardian must be a full financial member of the Belmont 16ft Sailing Club and EACH course participant must be a Junior Member of the Club.

Course Overview
This course combines Start Sailing 1 and 2 together.

Course Prerequisites

Water confident.

Who should do this course?

This course is designed for participants who wish to begin sailing in a dinghy. All the equipment and gear will be provided by your accredited Discover Sailing Centre.

Course Outcome

You will gain your Start Sailing 1 And Start Sailing 2 completion certificate. 

We recognise that some of our course participants are completing the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award and may be using sailing and/or club membership to complete one or more sections of The Award. To learn more, click here.