Registration is open for Bremerton Yacht Club's 26th annual Junior Learn-to-Sail Camps for ages 8 to 17.
Camps are 4 sessions from 9:30am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday, beginning July 27.
Scholarships are available for financial need.
Junior sailing with BYC is designed for maximum fun and comfort of new sailors while providing greater skill growth and depth of knowledge for experienced sailors. The curriculum is balanced with skill building activities on the water along with age-appropriate activities ashore to help youth and teens become competent sailors and build confidence to continue on to advanced levels of sailing.
Sailboats: Dewitt and Optimist Sailing Dinghies, Alphas, and Lasers
Skills covered:
- Capsize recovery
- Basic sailing maneuvers - tack, gybe, steer and trim
- Basic vocabulary and sailing concepts - points of sail, parts of the boat
- Basic seamanship skills - rigging, knot tying, equipment care
- Double handed teamwork as skipper and crew
- Optimizing performance to match wind and current conditions.
- Skills to proceed to advanced training and competitive racing.
