Dinghy Sailing Adult
"The best way to get the most from sailing"
Enjoy learning quickly using a tried and tested system. Come aboard and join the fastest growing and most popular watersport in Ireland!! SailCork has developed a professional teaching programme to help dinghy sailors to advance quickly in total safety.
The team of dinghy instructors is led by Eddie English who, as a qualified dinghy trainer and senior instructor, was one of those responsible for initiating the National Dinghy Scheme in Ireland. All certified courses are recognised by the ISA .
See bottom of page for course schedule 2009.
Professional Learning Environment:
Ashore: The shorebased sections of our courses take place in fully equipped, dedicated classrooms using the most up to date teaching methods and equipment.
Afloat: Our "outdoor classroom" is Cork Harbour. One of the world's finest harbours it offers the wide variety of conditions for dinghy sailing. We work in areas from secluded wooded creeks and golden sandy beaches to vast open waters for more advanced skills. Cork Harbour has been the home of sailing since the foundation of the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Cobh in 1720 - we continue this proud tradition and sail on these same safe waters 285 years on!! The year is crammed with regattas and races with the emphasis on good safe sailing and of course fun afloat and ashore!
We use a variety of boats from single handed oppies to the fast, exhilarating RS Vision, including the fantastic raider 18's. All programmed courses take place fromt our bases at the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Crosshaven or East Ferry Marina in Cobh, with the magnificent harbour literally on our doorstep.
SailCork also runs courses in powerboating, cruising, navigation, VHF Radio, GPS, Safety, multi-activity and club sailing for adults and juniors.
Eddie English Blog
Underwater cable Aghada to Cuskinny
One Thursday evening at the very start of February a group of seafarers decended on my local, “The Roaring Donkey”, in Cobh and lashed into copious quantities of gin and tonic. As the conversations began to flow it transpired that they were the crew of the Norwegian vessel, “Elektron”, docked at Cork Dockyard in Rushbrooke. Not just any ordinary ship but a specialist vessel for cable laying – she was here to lay the cable from Aghada Power Station to Cuskinny on the Great Island in Cork Harbour.
