Junior Courses

Junior sailing, junior powerboating, junior yachting and junior adventure - SailCork at East Ferry Marina Cobh

Eddie English and the team at SailCork have been teaching fun sailing and watersports courses for nearly 40 years. Way back in the early 1970's Eddie and his crew thought dinghy sailing to juniors at East Ferry and Cobh - now SailCork runs courses in dinghy sailing, cruiser sailing, powerboating and watersports adventure for juniors at the SailCork base at East Ferry in the tranquil north eastern corner of Cork Harbour.

Summer Holiday Adventure Camp 2012:

Five fun filled day s of dinghy sailing, powerboating, cruiser sailing and kayaking. A chance to brush up your skills afloat and prepare for the summer and to meet all your friends. Learn the essential skills - departing and berthing, hoisting, reefing and lowering sails, controlling and winching sails, tacking and gybing, anchoring, steering and all the crewing duties.

Learn about the tide and weather and know how to read a nautical chart - and have great fund doing it. SailCork are experts at providing fun learning for juniors  and our pupils have gone on to conquer the world afloat!

Have an adventure at East Ferry and enjoy fun afloat under the expert eye of your instructor. Eddie and the crew are looking forward to seeing you again .... and the weather forecast is excellent for the week! Find out more about our watersports adventure here!

 

Booking: - Limited places left -  - -   call Jo English at SailCork on 021 4811237

 

 

Professional Learning Environment:

East Ferry in Cobh is an ideal location for sailing. Besides boasting excellent facilities for sailing and boating East Ferry Marina is the home of the Morlogue Inn. Ideal for parents to relax whilst our pupils prepare to go afloat! Sailing from East Ferry allows us the safety of using a marina and access to the safe, unspoilt waters of the Eastern Harbour.

Ashore: The shorebased sections of our courses take place using the most up to date teaching methods and equipment. The classroom philosophy is based on fun learning ashore linked directly to the sessions afloat where the pupils spend most of their time on our courses.

Afloat: Our "outdoor classroom" is Cork Harbour. We work in areas which provide a totally safe environment for teaching afloat. Most courses are run in the safe, shallow, sheltered waters of the Eastern Harbour under the watchful eye of our qualified instructors.

Cork Harbour has been the home of leisure sailing for over 300 years and the year is crammed with regattas and races with the emphasis on safety on the water and of course fun afloat and ashore!

Season: SailCork runs junior camps and courses almost all year round. We begin with a weeklong course during the February Mid term and run Junior courses every Saturday from then until the summer holidays. During the summer holidays we run weeklong courses and special club days each week. We also run special outings to Regattas and race days in Cork Harbour. Autumn brings more junior courses during Oct mid term  and the Saturday Junior club continues right up to Christmas when we finish with a day out. 

Junior Multi-Watersports Camps and Courses 

 Our signature fun courses - for ages from 4 right up to 16. Fun learning in sailing, powerboating, raft building, adventure trails, kayaking and lots more!

Junior Dinghy Sailing Courses

Once pupils have experienced the fun during the Watersports Camp they usually want to move ahead and learn more about sailing. We are one of the longest established sailing schools in Ireland with a highly qualified team of experts to bring juniors from beginner through improver to advanced and maybe even on to instructor!

Junior Powerboating Courses

Our expert instructors run our special junior powerboat courses teaching safe boat handling and crewing. Juniors are made fully aware of the dangers involved, the skills needed and of course experience the thrills of powerboating. 

Teenage Cruiser Sailing Courses 

Sail aboard our cruiser/racer "Holy Grounder" with our Yachtmaster Instructors on our special junior cruiser courses in Cork Harbour and the South Coast of Ireland.

Saturday Club - Skull and Bones Club 

Primary Schools and Junior Groups.

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