Schools Sailing Program

The aim of the school sailing program is to increase the number of Emirati children learning to sail to progress into the intermediate race team, with the final aim being to compete in national regattas and to have the skills and ability to be selected to represent the UAE.

The program will start on 4th October 2015 until 2nd June 2016, depend on:

1. 72 seat (trainee) for International Schools weekly
2. 108 seat (trainee) for Emirati Schools weekly
3. One of the local schools will be from a girls Emirati School
4. 20 seat for new trainee interested in sailing (Emirati only)

There will be an initial 4 week introduction to sailing which will consist of:

• Water confidence
• Joyrides in elliot/ Bahia
• Introduction to Optimist sailing

After the 4 week programme 9 out of the initial 12 students will be selected to carry onto complete their RYA Stage 1. This selection process will be undertaken by both instructors and their assistants and will be based on:

• The students ability to connect to sailing (undertake simple tasks set by the instructor/ assistant)
• The students water confidence
• If the students feel like they want to carry on sailing
• Behaviour of students
• Attendance

The students will be monitored throughout the programme to check their progress. In January we will look at the numbers and if we have space we will re-invite and start the programme with the initial 4 week.

Along with the schools there will be the:

• Beginner laser team
• Competitive Laser team
• Optimist Beginner (once a week)
• Green Fleet (optimist intermediate)
• Competitive Optimist team
• Pico
• Leisure Sailing