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2008 Summer Sailing Program in part wth CYC

The 2008 Summer Sailing Program will consist of two four-week sessions in conjunction with the CYC. Classes in each session meet two or three days a week. There are classes both sessions for double-handed sailing (two days a week) and double-handed racing (two days a week).

Participants: The Program is open to individual juniors from 8 -18 years old. Registration is limited for beginners, so please sign up early to help planning and reserve your spot.

Swim Test: All juniors, regardless of age or number of years in the Program, will be required to take a safety swim test the first day of the program. Life Jackets: All juniors must wear an approved PFD while on the water. Comfortable and top quality life jackets are a necessity. Medical Release, Liability and Responsibility Forms: These forms must be on file before the summer sailing program begins.

Boats: Each individual is responsible for obtaining a boat to use for the session contact www.LifeSail.com/Junior/Sailing Juniors start in a US-Sabot. Older juniors sail the Laser with a full or radial (slightly smaller) sail. If you do not own a boat, please contact LifeSail.

Club Provided Boats: CYC owns several double-handed boats for intermediate and advanced instruction after the junior moves to Level III. The CFJ is raced in club regattas as well as in high school and college. The Capri 14.2's are used for the teen Double-handed Cruising
Class.

Thursday Night: Sailing instructors function as a race committee every Thursday night during the summer program. All races are open invitational. Sabot A, B, & C classes and Optis race off the dock.
Lasers and double handed boats race in the main channel. Sign ups are at 5:45 pm. with races beginning at 6:00 p.m. All are invited to join the Sabot/Opti race committee on the dock to watch the fleet. Instructors will explain racing rules and action on the water.

Enter a Regatta: Juniors are encouraged to attend targeted regattas. Special "C" fleet starts will be held for beginning racers on Thursday night. CYC instructors lend support and coach the juniors between races.

Fun on the Water

Fun activities are planned such as sailing to Mother's Beach and Fisherman's Village, picnics, treasure hunts, sponge tag, and sail making. . .

Level I & II and Double-Handed Cruising:

Build Juniors' confidence in themselves Foster a positive attitude toward sailing and a love of the water
Learn basic sailing skills and seamanship
Learn responsibility for equipment and self

Level III:

Develop Corinthian spirit Learn responsibility for others
Improve boat handling skills and seamanship
Learn advanced sail control
Learn basic racing rules Learn to win and lose gracefully
Learn equipment care and maintenance

Learn to race Level IV and Double-Handed Racing:

Focus on racing as vehicle to improve skills
Improve racing skills and tactics
Sharpen competitive spirit and Corinthian spirit
Foster teamwork-learn to sail with others
Participate in regattas at home and away
Set personal sailing goals
Gain exposure to big boats
Improve sportsmanship and seamanship

If you already know how to sail, increase your skill with our new flexible and creative program which allows juniors of varying ages to participate with special emphasis on their area of interest. cruising, racing, introduction to keel boats, Sabots, Lasers, Optis, CFJ'S, ... it's all here for you!

Fall and Spring Sailing

Sailing fun and activities continue throughout the year with our monthly Fall and Spring Sailing Programs. There are also regattas during the year for more sailing opportunities.

Team Building from Junior to Executive Director

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The purpose of the activity is to build a team through teamwork. The sailboat presents a unique opportunity in the following ways:
The boat is like a business-it is designed with a specific purpose. It can't do everything but it can perform according to its design. Businesses are like the boat-a business is designed to create a specific product or products. If you asked clothing store to make cars it couldn't and in the same way if you asked the sailboat to travel on dry land it couldn't.
The boat's crew is like the business employees in that everyone has a job and when everyone works together well and efficiently the best possible product at the best cost is produced.
The company's product(s) are like the task the boat is asked to perform.
The best possible product with the greatest profit occurs when the company is well suited to the task asked of it with everyone working together as a team.
The sailing experience offers the unique opportunity to isolate a group of people who need to make the boat work according to its and their abilities.
Each person will be dependent on their fellow crew members and the boat.
There is no opportunity for outside assistance as the boat and its crew is isolated by the sea. The conditions of weather and water are unpredictable requiring everyone to work together to perform the tasks that are demanded by the situations presented by task, boat, wind and weather.
Varying each individual's crew responsibility allows for interpersonal interactions that allow crew members to see themselves and each other in situations of varying responsibility and degrees of difficulty that are not always possible in the daily work environment hierarchy. Coworkers thus are allowed to see themselves and others in a different light than in the workplace.
The boat and its crew and tasks thus allow for the interactions of individuals to become a team through teamwork. The overall success is dependent on everyone doing their job and at times assisting with fellow crew members. Each crew member through trial and error and demands, both predictable and unpredictable, will find that their individual success is actually the success of the boat and is best accomplished when each member is in a position to be successful based on his or her unique skill set as well as the skill set of those surrounding him or her and the demands placed on the individual and the team by the boat and the tasks it/they are asked to perform.

Classes Available

Level I Sabots and Optis: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday (8:30 - 3:30). This class is for first time sailors between the ages of 8 and 13. Each child must have their own Sabot or Opti, ready to sail the first day of class.
Level II Sabots and Optis: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday (8:30 - 3:30). This class is designed for kids ages 8 -13 who have passed Level One Sailing. Skills taught include basic sailing fundamentals, care of equipment and environmental awareness.
Level III Sabots and Lasers: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (8:30 - 3:30). Individuals with good skills who are interested in perfecting their skills even further and competing in races both at the club and elsewhere.
Level IV Sabots and Lasers: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (8:30 - 3:30). Advanced Racing. Double-handed racing, CFJ: Monday and Wednesday (8:30 - 3:30). Beginning and advanced double-handed racing for individuals who have completed Level II and are interested in competition as a member of a team. Beginning Double-handed racing: Tuesday and Thursday (8:30 - 3:30).

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