Welcome to the 2010 Cadet Season! Events started over Easter with the Great Easter Bunny Hunt which coincides with the Gins Cruising Rally on Sunday April 4, and the RIB Taster days in Ocean Village during Easter holidays.
This provided chance to try the club’s RIB, a Ribcraft 585 with a Honda 90hp engine. Under the watchful eye of the RSYC’s own instructor, you could soon be driving at speed in Southampton Water and testing your boat parking skills in Ocean Village Marina.
If you’ve never sailed before, or want to improve your skills, we’ve arranged a series of RYA Start Sailing courses through Southampton Water Activities Centre (SWAC), just 100 meters up river from Ocean Village. There are four Stages, each of which takes two days and is run over a weekend. You don’t have to take all four courses and can book on whichever level suits you best. Once through level 1 & 2 you will be able to practice further using the Dinghy’s at SWAC (for a nominal charge) throughout the year via the RYA “On Board” scheme.
Following the success of last year, we are again offering a day’s sailing in Southampton Water and the Solent on board the Ocean Youth Trust’s training ship the John Laing – a rare opportunity not to be missed and thoroughly enjoyed by all in 2009
We are again running cadet dinghy days at Gins in late July aimed at the novice sailor, but are replacing our usual days at Ocean village with a new joint venture dinghy event late August between RSYC and Netley Sailing Club (NSC). This two day venture will be based at NSC and will provide a wide range of dinghy’s and on/off shore activities including camping overnight for those that wish and an evening barbecue.
Minimum age for all courses is eight and maximum is 15 except the John Laing sail day where the minimum age is 12.
Simon Pickess
Head of Cadet Training
