YMCA of Canberra Sailing Club
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Course Participant
If you are enrolling in a course you must be a member of Australian Sailing. To do this you can sign up for a course participant membership with the club that will allow you to register. The course participant membership does not allow you to sail with the club externally to the sailing course. Register HERE
Holiday programs are five-day courses for children run from 9am to 5pm during ACT school holidays. Please complete the enquiry form below to find out about Sea Scout and Group discounts for these programs.
Our adult courses are offered on weekends. Saturday courses are accelerated courses, with less time on the water and are best suited to people who are fit and adept at learning new physical skills. The Sunday course is slower paced and has more time for on-water practice.
These courses are designed to enable parents and children (aged 8 and above) to learn to sail together. Open to adults and children with and without sailing experience. If you have a large family, please complete the enquiry form below to find out about discounts. The course runs over four/five Sundays, from 9 am to 5 pm.
Level 3 courses allow sailors who have completed a Level 2 certificate and sailed consistently for at least half a season to improve their skills. The course introduces sailors to spinnakers and trapezes, navigation buoys, wind on the lake, sea breezes and other more advanced sailing techniques. The course is open to adults and juniors and runs over two weekends. For safety reasons candidates for this course must have reached suitable minimum skill levels and the YMCA Canberra Sailing Club reserves the right to refuse admission to the course.
We offer a beginner coaching program on Tuesday evenings from 4-6pm. This program aims to allow participants to develop skills to sail a small boat. It is suitable for both beginner sailors, aswell as those who have completed on of our courses from the ages of 8-16. We also offer coaching for students at Marist and Merici College.