Maraetai Sailing club offers a safe, fun and comprehensive 10 day Learn to Sail (LTS) for children aged 9 to 12 years old.
Our program is run on Sundays between 9:00am and 15:30 and is based at the Maraetai Sailing Club at Maraetai Beach.
We have two intakes per season starting in September/October and January/February.
The Sailing Course follows the Yachting New Zealand (YNZ) program (10 weeks) and will result in sailors receiving their YNZ level one and two certificates. They will then move onto our Opti Squad Course.
No sailing experience is needed, just some water confidence and an ability to swim 50m in a life jacket.
All of our coaches are YNZ qualified and operate under the guidance of a very experienced Senior Coach. We run a child to coach ratio of 6 to 1 and where necessary have other rostered coaches available to step in to reduce this ratio.
Our LTS fleet is a combination of modern self bailing Optimist cubes and some traditional plastic optimists that are gradually being phased out with the newer cubes. Boats will be allocated to sailors for the duration of the course on a first in first served basis.
Maraetai Sailing Club's LTS is water based with some classroom and onshore activities.
Our Learn to Sail Package includes*:
- Use of Club Optimist Dinghy
- 10 Days of Coaching by YNZ Qualified Coaches
- YNZ Fees
- 1 x Junior Sailing Club Membership
*The Package does not include Community Membership of Maraetai Boat Club which may be requested at a future date.
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