Learn to Sail - Children
Tackers
- No experience necessary
- Nominally ages 8-11
- Training courses are reliably held twice a year in 8 week blocks:
- Oct to Dec
- Feb to April
- Occasionally extra courses are run in school holidays.
- Tackers courses cost $317. Subsequent children from the same family receive a 25% discount.
- Register here
Equipment
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Course Content
Tackers 1
On completion of Tackers 1 , the participants will be able to:
- Steer with tiller extension under towing paddling power
- Tie a figure 8 knot, round twice and two half hitches
- Tack (push turn)
- Gybe (pull turn)
- Reach around a figure of 8 course using both tacking and gybing
- Sail with tiller extension Sail upwind and downwind by following the safety boat
- Progress onto Tackers 2
Tackers 2
On completion of Tackers 2 , the participants will be able to:
- Get out of irons on their own
- Safely gybe the boat
- Correctly use the tiller extension
- Sailing around a triangle course, including: Upwind - on a close hauled course tacking through the 'no go zone'
- Downwind - with centreboard up Reaching - correct sail position
- Demonstrate a 360 and 720-degree turn
- Progress onto Green Fleet
More info at Discover Sailing noting that we don't offer Tackers 3 in favour of our own program
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