Youth Sailing & Boatbuilding Classes
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Youth Beginning Sailing
Instructors: CWB Youth Sailing Instructors
Description: In this introduction to sailing, students learn the basic theory and terminology of sailing and begin to build a foundation of skills. Classes meet for a series of three-hour sessions with about a third of class time spent on land and two-thirds on the water. Students sail in pairs or sometimes solo in the 8’ El Toro prams.
Limit: 16 students
Ages: 9 - 16
Prerequisite: No experience necessary.
Suggested Price: $175 ($350 full day classes)
Session 1: July 9 - 13
Time: 10 am - 1 pm (Monday - Friday)
Session 2: July 9 - 13
Time: 2 pm - 5 pm (Monday - Friday)
Session 3: July 23 - 27
Time: 10 am - 1 pm (Monday - Friday)
Session 4: July 30 - August 3
Time: 10 am - 5 pm (Monday - Friday, Full day)
Session 5: August 6 - 10
Time: 2 pm - 5 pm (Monday - Friday)
Session 6: August 20 - 24
Time: 10 am - 1 pm (Monday - Friday)
Session 7: August 27 - 31
Time: 10 am - 1 pm (Monday - Friday)
Youth Intermediate Sailing
Instructors: CWB Youth Sailing Instructors
Description: Becoming a great sailor involves building a new set of reflexes. Students fine-tune their fundamental sailing skills while exploring new elements of sailing such as adventuring, marlinspike seamanship and advanced boat handling. This is the next step for students who know the basics of sailing and are ready to sail by themselves.
Limit: 8 Students
Ages: 9 - 17
Prerequisite: Beginning Sailing or instructor permission.
Suggested Price: $175
Session 1: July 16 - 20
Time: 10 am-1pm (Monday - Friday)
Session 2: July 23 - 27
Time: 2 pm - 5 pm (Monday - Friday)
Session 3: August 6-10
Time: 10am - 1pm (Monday - Friday)
Session 4: August 27 - 31
Time: 2 pm - 5 pm (Monday - Friday)
Grad School: Beetle Cats
Instructors: CWB Youth Sailing Instructors
Description: Ready to take sailing to the next level? Grad School focuses on the subtleties of sailing well and applying intermediate skills to a larger boat in our Livery Fleet. Students will learn to sail the Beetle Cat, a 12’ gaff rigged wooden boat first designed and built for youth in 1921. Sailing in pairs, we will practice advanced upwind and downwind sailing, balance and trim, man overboard, steering with the sail and docking. Advanced knot tying and reefing will also be covered. This class is great way to gain experience in larger boats available in our livery year round.
Limit: 6 students
Ages: 11 - 17
Prerequisite: Two sessions of Intermediate Sailing or instructor permission.
Suggested Price: $225
Session 1: July 30-August 3
Time: 2pm - 5pm (Monday - Friday)
Session 2: August 13 - 17
Time: 2 pm - 5 pm (Monday - Friday)
Science of Sailing
Instructors: CWB & PSC Instructors
Description: Pacific Science Center (PSC) and The Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) have teamed up to create a week of fun, science-filled sailing. Delve into the math and physics behind sailing and boat design. Investigate the convergence of wind, water, weather and the cause and effect of the wind in your sails and your hand at the helm. Spend your morning at PSC building model boats and conducting experiments, then walk to CWB to spend the afternoon sailing 8’ wooden El Toro prams in pairs on Lake Union. Chart your course and sail off on an adventure!
Limit: 16 students
Ages: 9 - 11
Prerequisite: No experience necessary.
Price: (register before April 30): Member $360 / non-member $385
(register after April 30): Member $385 / non-member $410
Note: REGISTRATION FULL. Please contact Pacific Science Center with questions.
Session 1: July 16-20 - FULL
Time: 9 am - 5 pm (Monday - Friday)
Session 2: August 20-24 - FULL
Time: 9 am - 5 pm (Monday - Friday)
Words on Water
Instructors: CWB Youth Sailing Instructors
Description: Do you love books and stories? These daylong classes will delve into the maritime traditions through sailing, reading, sketching and journaling. The course will introduces sailing skills covered in Intermediate Sailing (including sailing solo) and sparks the Imagination through a diverse selection of maritime literature and writing exercises. Books and boats will complement each other to inspire creativity, independence and adventure.
Limit: 8 students
Ages: 11 - 14
Prerequisite: Beginning Sailing or instructor permission.
Suggested Price: $350
Dates: August 13 - 17
Time: 10 am - 5 pm (Monday - Friday, Full Day)
El Toro Racing
Instructors: CWB Youth Sailing Instructors
Description: Just because school is starting doesn’t mean sailing ends! Join CWB for a fun introduction to racing on Saturday afternoons We’ll teach the basics of right of way rules, racing strategy and tactics and help refine boat handling skills in preparation for a real regatta! The session ends with the Norm Blanchard W.O.O.D. Regatta on September 29 & 30th. (Parent chaperones are encouraged during the last weekend).
Limit: 8 students
Ages: 11 - 17
Prerequisite: Intermediate Sailing
Suggested Price: $185
Dates: September 8, 15, 22 (Saturdays) and 29 & 30 (Saturday & Sunday – all day event)
Time: 1pm - 4pm
Quick & Daring for Kids
Instructors: CWB Youth Sailing Instructors
Description: Could you design and build a boat in five days? Could you do it with a couple of sheets of plywood and whatever else you can find? Would you be bold enough to try your creation out on Lake Union? In this version of the popular Quick & Daring boatbuilding competition from the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival, students will learn the basic principles of vessel design and construction, work in teams to build a boat from strange, wondrous and random materials construction and then sail and row their boats.
Limit: 9 students
Ages: 10 - 16
Prerequisite: None
Suggested Price: $200
Date: July 23 - 27
Time: 10am to 2pm
Shilshole Bay Yacht Club
SBYC is sponsoring full scholarships for underserved youth to attend Intermediate or Grad School sailing lessons at The Center for Wooden Boats and participate as crew (along with parent or guardian) onboard SBYC member boats for the The TransPuget Benefit Race on September 22, 2012. Application deadline is April 27, 2012. For more details and to apply, contact Mindy Ross mross@cwb.org
Ages: 12 - 17
Youth Kayak Building
Description: Students will build their own 14’ foot stitch and glue Sea Kayak. Students will assemble their boats from kits, at the end of the week student boats will be ready for a sea trial and final finish and painting at home. Students will learn basic woodworking and contemporary boat construction techniques. The finished boats are fully decked and have two storage hatches.
Limit: 8 students
Ages: 11 - 16
Prerequisite: None
Suggested Price: $1000
Date: August 6 - 10
Time: 9am to 5pm - Registration Deadline: July 13
Building a "Footy" Pond Boat
Description: Want to design and build your own pond boat? Here’s your chance. Learn what makes a sailboat perform and then design and build your own custom pond boat. The Footy is a type of pond boat that fits in a 1’ x 1’ box. Any boat that fits in this box can register with the Footy class, receive an official number and race against other Footys. Footys can be either radio controlled or free sailing (no radio control) students will take a finished free sailing footy home at the end of the week. Most free sailing Footys can be retrofitted for radio control. There will be a race on the model boat pond in Lake Union Park on Friday. For more information about the Footy class, check out www.footy.rcsailing.net
Limit: 8 Students
Ages: 10 - 16
Prerequisite: None
Suggested Price: $200
Date: July 9 - 15
Time: 10am to 2pm
School Year Sailing
Instructors: CWB Youth Sailing Instructors
Description: CWB offers Beginning and Intermediate Sailing during the school year to youth organizations, school groups, afterschool programs and scouting groups. Students have fun learning an outdoor skill and develop self-confidence and decision-making skills while learning patience, observation and teamwork. Students sail in pairs and learn the fundamentals of sailing during a series of six two-hour lessons.
Limit: 16 students (minimum 6)
Suggested Price: $175/student
Prerequisite: None
Ages: 9 - 17
Spring Dates: May 1 - June 8
Fall Dates: September 12 - October 17
Time: 2:30pm - 5pm (Tuesday - Friday) or 2 pm - 5 pm (Saturday or Sunday)
Dates and times can be coordinated for individual youth and school groups. Contact Mindy Ross, mross@cwb.org or 206-382-2628 ext. 21 to schedule.
