• Begin sailing with this comprehensive course
• No prerequisite
• Learn the basics of being both crew and skipper on a keelboat
• 3 participants per course / 1 instructor, 15 hours of instruction
• Course details (pdf)
• Course format:
• • 2 hour evening zoom session 7-9pm four days prior to your time on the water to cover course theory and the student workbook
  • 13 hours over two days at the lake with your instructor, starting at 9 am each day
  • Depending on instructor availability, lesson days at the lake are Monday/Tuesday OR Thursday/Friday OR Saturday/Sunday
• this course is available as a Women's Only course led by a female instructor.
  

Keelboat Skipper Course ($325)

• Expand your skills as a skipper
  
• Prerequisite: Start Keelboat Sailing Course or equivalent experience
• This course is for people wanting to join the Club's Co-op Boat Program and those who want to take the Keelboat Cruising Course to charter a sailboat.
• Includes content specific to Glenmore Reservoir - dock protocol, launching and retrieving a trailerable sailboat, leaving and returning to the dock under sail, local conditions, wing on wing downwind sailing and more.

• Course format:
• • 2 hour evening zoom session 7-9pm four days prior to your time on the water to cover course theory and the student workbook
  • 13 hours over two days at the lake with your instructor, starting at 9 am each day
  • Depending on instructor availability, lesson days at the lake are Monday/Tuesday OR Thursday/Friday OR Saturday/Sunday
• 3 participants per course / 1 instructor, 15 hours

Keelboat Cruising Course ($325)




• Develop the comprehensive sailing skills most sailboat charter companies want to see before they turn you loose to enjoy cruising the Gulf Islands.
• Prerequisite: Keelboat Skipper course and a minimum of 10 hours of sailing as the skipper of a sailboat.
• 3 participants per course with 1 instructor, 14 hours
• Note: after successful completion of both the Keelboat Skipper and Keelboat Cruising courses, students will have achieved their Basic Cruising Standard certification with Sail Canada
  
  

Keelboat Spinnaker ($275)



• Learn how to rig, hoist, gybe and douse a spinnaker.
• Prerequisite: Keelboat Skipper Course or equivalent experience (key activities for this course include gybing the mainsail, physical ability & balance to be on the foredeck)
  
• Co-op Boat Program members must take this course or have experience before flying a spinnaker on the Co-op Keelboats.
  
• 3 participants per course / 1 instructor
• Course details (pdf)

• Join the Club's Co-op Boat Program 
• Participate in recreational and racing events with the Club.
• Sail with experienced members and build your sailing skills through our Pickup Crew List. 
• Join us for a social at the Club.