We hold our High School Sailing
Regattas on the above mentioned Sunday afternoons and all high schools
are invited to participate. The class of boat is the Laser and
is open to any rig size of choice. Due to our limited number of
boats our Lasers are reserved for our Racing Clinic Students and High
School Sailing Club Members. Unfortunately all others must provide
their own boat.
This
year if there are enough beginner sailors interested in our racing clinic
we are going to have a Varsity team for the returning and more advanced
sailors and a Jr. Varsity for the beginners. The Varsity team will meet
on Tuesdays and the Jr. Varsity will meet on Thursdays. During the season
we will hold scrimmage regattas between the Varsity and J.V. teams to
see if any J.V. sailor can move up to Varsity.
Our high school sailing program
isn't just about racing. We offer use of our Lasers to all high
school aged students with membership in our High School Sailing Club.
To join the club the student must show proof of sailing proficiency
in the Laser or have completed our Beginner High School Training Course.
A one-time membership fee of $40.00/semester will help offset
maintenance and insurance costs and allow the student member the
following benefits:
High school teams are the way students who might otherwise
never find a way to sail can get afloat and begin finding the lifelong
pleasure that sailing can offer. Better still, high school sailing is
one of the few school sporting activities in which boys and girls can
compete with each other on equal terms. Sailing is a sport to enjoy
throughout their life regardless of physical stature, age, or gender.
It is a sport that you can participate in for recreation or competition,
well past retirement age.
Beginner High School Training
Course, this 12 hour course is designed
for the high school student with no sailing experience whatsoever.
It follows the U.S. Sailing Certified Course guidlines but more streamlined
with a touch competition added. Min. class size: 5, Max: 10, fee:
$85 + $15 for text book. (Ages 14-18 only).
High School Sailing Program
Update
Our Fall racing
clinic will run ten weeks with the Varsity students meeting once per
week on Tuesdays from 3:30 - 6:30 and the Jr. Varsity on Thursdays.
This clinic is designed to introduce the sport of competitive sailing
at the high school level. The students started in the Hobie Wave
to reacquaint them with their sailing skills and quickly moved to the
Laser which will be the primary training boat used for single hand sailing
in the program. The double hand sailing will be introduced in
the 420 class sailboat. These class boats are the primary boats
used by the Interscholastic Sailing Association (ISSA) in their regional
and national regattas. The first semester will include lectures
addressing; starts, upwind sailing, downwind sailing, tactics, mark
roundings, rules and protests, boat speed, boat handling, light air
and heavy air sailing. These are combined with on-the-water drills
to illustrate the theory.
Included
in the clinic will be five Sunday regattas for the students to practice
their newly learned skills in the real setting. These regattas
are considered The Brevard Sailing League scrimmages and are not restricted
to just the clinic participants. Any Brevard high school student
with access to a Laser sailboat is encouraged to join in the regattas
as well as any other Laser Sailors.
We
continue to have the problem of finding a faculty member from any of
the Brevard high schools to sponsor a sailing club within their school.
The sponsor's responsibilities depend solely on their school's
policy. Performance Sail and Sport's attendance requirements
of the sponsors are strictly voluntary. Without the help of these
sponsors, the hopes of a sailing club at your school is very slim.
If there are any potential sponsors with questions on the program please
feel free to call or email us.
