Southport Yacht Club is excited to host the annual Junior Sailing Festival on the Gold Coast partnering with Australia Sailing!
This event is aimed at Tackers 1, 2, 3, Green Fleet, and Out There sailors aged 7-17 - those that can steer a boat by themselves.
The weekend is full of fun activities making friends with other sailors from their Learn To Sail venue, plus other children from all over Queensland and Northern NSW
Boats provided, limited lifjackets available so if you have your own bring it along 
Great experience for children who have never completed a regatta and want to get comfortable around other clubs and sailors! 
 

Some of the weekends fun activites may include: 

• Treasure Hunt 
• On Water Games
• Trial a boat

• Racing

• Boat Soccer 
• Gut Buster
• Uno/Ship Shark Shore 
• No Rules Race
• Beach Start Relay
• Rail Riding Race
• Number Of 360’s
• And much much more 

There will also be information sesssions for parents on Saturday morning 9:30am-11:30am 

Parent sessions include: 

- Why choose sailing

- Types of boats (key class presentations)

- What being a sailing family looks like 

- pathways into the sport / club membership

One day or Two day options available 

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Overview
OutThere Sailing Experience sessions are all about having fun and getting a taste for on water activities. This action-packed program will give you the opportunity to try one or all the following, sailing, windsurfing, stand up paddle boarding, powerboating and keelboating. Depending on your club, experience sessions will be held over 2-4 hours.

Prerequisites

Water confident.

Who should do this experience?

This experience is designed for participants who are 12-17 years-old looking to try a new activity, have some fun and engage with other teenagers. 

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