Friday 24-May-13 19:56:49 BST

JUNIOR TRAINING

We offer the following courses from the RYA Youth Sailing Schemes

RYA Dinghy Sailing Training Courses (Junior) 2013
Name	Duration	Dates
Stages 1 & 2	4 days	15, 23, 30 June, 7 July
Stages 3 & 4		Elements of these courses may covered in Saturday Clubs and at Cobnor weekends.
Start Racing	2 days	TBD

These courses are available to CMYC members and can be booked on line at Online Bookings.Further details are given in Newsletters at the appropriate time,

• Stage 1 & 2 Course:
  By the end of the first two days course the young sailor will have a basic understanding of how a boat sails, and some experience of steering and handling the boat. By the end of the final two days they will have learnt a range of sailing skills and background knowledge will enable the participant to become a confident small boat sailor.
• Stage 3:
  A further 2 days will enable skills to sail in any direction and rig and launch unassisted. They will learn other sailing skills including capsize techniques in single and double-handed dinghies. The young person can now be regarded as a sailor, not a beginner.
• Stage 4:
  This 4 day course covers the skills required for sailing double-handed dinghies as crew or helm, whilst solving a variety of problems afloat.
  
  Passing this course is the natural entry point for the advanced courses of Seamanship Skills and Sailing with Spinnakers.

As a Volvo Champion Club we are able to offer a variety of opportunities for the aspiring future ‘Olympic' sailor. During the year we often have the services of an RYA area racing coach to run race training sessions at the lake for our young sailors. Otherwise we have a number of in-house qualified RYA Level 2 Race Coaches who support many of our racing training days.

We may offer two RYA racing courses: Start Racing and Intermediate.

The two day Start Racing course is run most years, to enable those with Stage 2  ability to acquire the basic knowledge to join in club racing. This is a predominantly practical course.

Further race training is run as and when numbers and ability require them.

During the year we sometimes run Team Racing days in Toppers. This type of racing is excellent practice for boat handling skills, teamwork and racing rules - it is also fast and very exciting! We also run a Team Racing inter-club event in RS Fevas which is even more exciting.

We run a series of four evening coaching sessions on Thursdays for Toppers during May. For those wanting further coaching we put you in touch with whatever the RYA is organising for the various classes.

Subject to demand we run spinnaker training and dedicated Topper days.

Each year quite a number of our young sailors enter as part of the West Sussex team at the National Schools Sailing Regatta, which sees around 350 children from all over the United Kingdom taking part, this year the event is being held at the end of July at Bassethwaite SC in Cumbria. The West Sussex Regatta is another event which we enjoy. We sail against the other clubs in and around the Chichester Harbour area. (We have finished second several times in this event, around 90 sailors from seven clubs take part in this event. We send an adult and junior team to represent the club at the WKSSA events held at two venues (one large and one small lake) during each year. We have won the junior small lake event on several occasions and last year we won the large lake event for the first time fifteen year.

We also hold a SE Area Topper Open Meeting at our club each year. It is quite usual for around twenty to thirty visiting boats to come and join our own Topper sailors for this event.