Adult Sailing Instruction
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These courses introduce you to the life-long joys of sailing. We invite you to sample our hospitality, learn more about sailing,our facilities here at RYC and our family-oriented membership.
Knowledge + Experience + Confidence = A lifetime of sailing pleasure.
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Off-Shore Instruction (Sessions begin after Memorial Day)
Rochester Yacht Club (RYC) offers United States Sailing Association (USSA) certified sailing instruction to adults (18+), both members and non-members. Sets of lessons on the water offer personalized instruction, giving novices a non-intimidating opportunity to learn the basic skills of sailboat handling and care. Even experienced sailing crew can benefit by learning responsible helmsman ship. Students build confidence and gain experience while learning. Satisfactory completion of the Basic Keelboat course provides US SAILING certification-of-competency to skipper a keelboat. This can help wherever one wants to rent or charter a sailboat or become a starter crewmember on any racing sailboat. Private lessons are also available.
Discover Sailing Experience- Register Here
Members: $25.00
Non-Members: $40.00
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
10:00-12:00pm, 1:00-3:00pm, & 4:00-6:00pm
Groups of 3 or more can arrange different times & dates based on availability.
The RYC Discover Sailing Experience Course is the perfect introduction into sailing. You can participate in a fun two hour sail with a partner, group of friends, work colleagues, or family for a minimal fee. Discover your love for the seas and sailing on this short cruise.
Discover Sailing is a great opportunity to find out just how fun, safe, accessible, and affordable sailing is and enjoy the great social club environment. A qualified Keelboat certified Instructor & Junior Instructor will be out on the water with you, ensuring your safety. Discover Sailing Experiences are held on a Keelboat. Our Keelboats allow you to learn to sail without the fear of capsizing. The Discover Sailing Experience is ideal for people who have never been sailing and have no sailing knowledge.
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Learn to Sail – Register Here
Members: $320.00
Non-Members: $480.00
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The 12 hours of “Learn to Sail” are a prerequisite for “Basic Keel boat”. They offer beginners, and experienced crew members alike, hands-on sailing experience and confidence to helm a sailboat with the knowledge of the Rules of the Road.
Instruction begins in the boats (Ideal 18 or Sonar), on the water, in the first lesson. After about an hour’s orientation you will sail the boat out! You can learn how to rig and secure sails, lines and gear; steer by the wind; trim sails properly; recover an overboard victim; dock and undock your sailboat. You’ll tie the few basic nautical knots, be exposed to nautical terms and can learn the Rules of the Road on the water.
Note: If an experienced crew can demonstrate these skills in the first lesson, he/she may advance directly to the Basic Keel boat lessons without additional charge. Participants must be at least 18 years of age.
2013 Session Dates & Times
Session 1 6/8, 6/9 9am-4pm
Session 2 6/10, 6/12, 6/17, 6/19 5pm-8pm
Session 3 6/15, 6/16, 6/22, 6/23 9am-12pm
Session 4 6/24, 6/25, 6/26, 6/27 9am-12pm
Session 5 6/24, 6/25, 6/26, 6/27 1pm-4pm
Session 6 7/1, 7/3, 7/5 12pm-4pm
Session 7 7/15, 7/17, 7/22, 7/24 1pm-4pm
Session 8 7/16, 7/18, 7/23, 7/25 9am-12pm
Session 9 7/20, 7/27,8/3, 8/10 1pm-4pm
Session 10 8/4, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25 9am-12pm
Session 11 8/5, 8/7, 8/12, 8/14 5pm-8pm
Session 12 8/12, 8/13, 8/14, 8/15 9am-12pm
Session 13 8/19, 8/20 9am-4pm
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Basic Keelboat–Register Here
Members: $320.00
Non-Members: $480.00
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Pre-Requisite: Learn to Sail, or ability to demonstrate skills listed above.
The twelve-hours of “Basic Keel boat” provide experience in a larger boat (Pearson 26) and teach more advanced skills. You will be exposed to quick-change head sail methods with double halyards, rope clutches, regular and self-tailing winches and winch handles. Gasoline engine operation and safety precautions, plus basic VHF radio procedures are included.
After passing the Basic Keel boat on-water evaluation and the US SAILING multiple-choice written test, you will be deemed competent to sail a small keel boat safely on your own. You earn a Basic Keel boat sticker for your official US SAILING Logbook, certifying your sailing skill level. This can help qualify you to charter sailboats from rental agencies here and abroad. You also receive one year’s US SAILING membership.
Note: Participants must be at least 18 years of age.
2013 Session Dates & Times
Session 1 6/11, 6/13, 6/18, 6/20 5pm-8pm
Session 2 6/15, 6/16, 6/22, 6/23 1pm-4pm
Session 3 7/1, 7/2, 7/3, 7/5 9am-12pm
Session 4 7/10, 7/12, 7/17, 7/19 5pm-8pm
Session 5 7/13, 7/14 9am-4pm
Session 6 7/20, 7/27, 8/3, 8/10 9am-12pm
Session 7 7/30, 8/1, 8/6, 8/8 1pm-4pm
Session 8 7/31, 8/2, 8/7, 8/9 9am-12pm
Session 9 8/4, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25 1pm-4pm
Session 10 8/12, 8/13, 8/14, 8/15 1pm-4pm
Session 11 8/21, 8/22 9am-4pm
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Refresher Course –
Members: $200.00
Non-Members: $300.00
Are you unsure of how everything works, but you're dreading letting another summer go by without sailing? This is the course for you! We are aware that not everyone can get on a boat as often as they would like, and that everyone can get a little rusty after the off-season... but there's no need to retake a whole sailing course. If you just need to brush up your boat handling skills, let us help you get back on board! We make it our goal to give you the knowledge and confidence to safely get on the water again. A few things you can work on but are not limited to are - docking, reefing and crew overboard maneuvers - with crewmates of similar experience and goals. This twelve hour course may be just what you need to get into crewing or sailing more comfortably!
Note: This refresher course is intended for intermediate sailors.
Classes are scheduled as requested. Classes are intended to review skills as requested by partipants. A minimum of two participants is required to run a course.
Please contact Sarah@Rochesteryc.com to schedule a class.
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Private Lessons – Register Here
Members: $55.00/hour
Non-Members: $80.00/hour
Our Certified Instructors may also be booked to provide private lessons, or you may opt for additional sailing time with an instructor if you feel the need, before going for final Keel boat qualification. Private lessons are held on Ideal 18's or Sonars.
Note: Participants must be at least 18 years of age.
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SCHEDULING:
For your convenience, the courses are offered throughout the week in the morning, afternoon, and evening. Class lengths will vary from 3-hours to 6 hours depending on the session to better accommodate schedules of our participants. Whether you have all summer or one weekend, we will have a course and time frame to meet your needs. Unlike commercial schools, we try to separate lessons rather than holding them on consecutive days, to offer you time to review appropriate textbook sections between lessons and hopefully to expose you to variations in the weather. Classes will run from Memorial Day through Labor Day. In-process classes must be completed by the end of September. After that, weather usually deteriorates, often making sailing instruction unpleasant.
TEXTBOOK:
Our program uses US Sailing’s “Basic Keelboat” textbook series. These books include Basic Keelboat, Basic Cruising, Bareboat Cruising, & Coastal Navigation. It is very comprehensive, but not overly technical. The text is understandable and includes excellent pictorials of boats, terminology, wind-sail relationships and knots. We suggest that you only skim your copy prior to your lessons. Reviewing appropriate details after each lesson will help clinch your learning experience.
Textbooks are included in the price of each lesson.
CLOTHING & EQUIPMENT:
Lake Ontario weather is often very different than that on land. In early summer, it is much colder; in fall, it is often warmer. You may be exposed to wind, rain, spray, cold and heat, and strong direct and reflected sunlight. U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jackets are provided if you don’t have your own; they will be worn at all times while on the water. If you’re uncertain about how to dress, before you go out, ask your instructor about the day’s anticipated weather.
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On-Shore Instruction:
Coastal Navigation Certification–
Members: $400.00
Non-Members: $600.00
**Prices include all materials**
Since time immemorial, sailors have used and refined the techniques of “Deductive Reckoning” navigation to find their way in limited visibility or when out of sight of land. The Coastal Navigation graduate will have demonstrated the art of traditional navigation techniques and the ability to integrate electronic navigation tools into the navigation plan. In this 28-hour classroom course, you will learn all the tools, methods and applications of these time-honored skills, and discover the freedom and confidence that mastering navigation brings.
Course dates:
5 Week Course
Tuesdays & Thursdays in February/March from 6pm-9pm
February 26th, 28th, March 5th, 7th, 12th, 14th, 19th, 21st, 26th, 28th
Location: RYC Clubhouse
Introduction to Racing Course–
Members: $50.00
Non-Members: $75.00
**Prices include all materials**
Pre-Requisites:
- Basic knowledge of sailing: concepts, terms, maneuvers, points of sail, etc.
The eight hours of "Introduction to Racing" provide an introductory level of knowledge of sailboat racing for adults in a classroom only setting. You will be exposed to broad descriptions of types of racing, race course descriptions, rules, tactics & strategies, roles on a boat and nomenclature. This course will also include the non-mandatory option of learning from actual RYC races, in addition to classroom time.
Our March course is full, we will be posting our June course dates soon!
Location: RYC Youth Sailing Center
Note: This course is not a Learn to Sail course.
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If you have any questions regarding our Adult Sail Instruction program, please click here to contact our Education & Events Director.