Learn to Sail weekends

If you want to learn to sail or think sailing might be your thing: a weekend is ideal. It is enough time to start to understand the basics, enjoy plenty of time on the water and increase your confidence as you explore the lake by sail.

We do both days from the same place and leave any adaptions set up so that day 2 is much more focused on sailing time. Typically a weekend plan is:

Day One:
Focused on familiarisation on the boat: the controls, the manoeuvres and making her go. We spend time going back and forth getting the hand of turns, holding a course and sail setting, Often lunch is on anchor

Day Two
This day is typically focused on a journey and the experience of taking a lovely little boat a good long way. Invariably this is north up the lake with islands to round, headlands and ferries to contend with. Often we also deploy our fourth sail the spinnaker.

For private bookings, there is a second option for those who are more focused on learning to sail where we spend the day building independence and knowledge. The day swops distance and travelling for knowledge and practice. We cover changing the sail size, mooring, docking, anchoring and rescues. This is the typical content of our dedicated learn-to-sail 3-day course.