Youth Development Squad: Nemos & Fevas
Woollahra Sailing Club, situated on Sydney Harbour’s Rose Bay, conducts its Youth Development Squad Program that consists of three focus groups -- Nemos, Dolphins and Fevas, in Optimists and Fevas for kids looking to advance their skills in sailing.
The Nemo group is for kids just getting into sailing aged between about 7 and 13. After completing one or two Nemo programs young sailors should be ready to join a sailing club and start developing their racing skills. The Feva group is for beginner youths between 12 to 16 who want to sail a two man boat and the Dolphins is for young sailors who have their own Optimist Dinghies and want to develop their racing skills.
Nemos (Saturday 1pm - 4pm OR Sun 9am-12pm): The Nemo program is for young sailors who have completed a School Holiday program or Basic Skills course but who require further training and experiences before taking the big step of acquiring their own boat.
The program focuses on the basics such as rigging, sailing upwind and will start to introduce the basics rules of sailing. To ensure faster learners and those with a little more experience are catered for the Coaches further the introduction of racing rules and tactics while focusing on improving helming, tacking and gybing technique on all points of sail.
Feva Squad (Sun 1pm - 4pm): The Feva Squad is aimed at slightly older sailors (13-16yrs) who are starting out in the sport and who are interested in sailing a double handed (two person) boat. The RS Feva's are a robust beginner skiff that allows sailors to learn basic boat handling such as sailing upwind, tacking and gybing while also providing the option of introducing assymetric spinnaker handling.
Our next coaching programs commence the weekend of 4-5 February and run until 1 April. Each session will run for 3 hours. The course has been priced to allow for up to one week to be lost due to unsuitable conditions and a pro-rata refund will be offered for second and subsequent weekends cancelled due to conditions.
It’s great fun, safe and fully supervised by qualified Yachting Australia Instructors and Coaches. Our aim is to create a fun social environment for juniors aged between 7 and 16 years.
Program Cost
This program is offered to current junior aged between 7 and 15 years.
Term 1 program Cost:-
$350 per person (Member Price $310) for both the Feva Squad and Nemos.
Enrolment
Further Information
For further information contact Woollahra Sailing Club.
Sailing Office: (02) 9371-9805
Email: sail@woollahrasailingclub.org.au
