Junior Courses
JUNIOR SAILING, POWERBOATING, CRUISER and Multi-Watersports COURSES - 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, piowerboating and multi-watersports for juniors at the SailCork base at East Ferry in the tranquil north eastern corner of Cork Harbour.
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 during the school term until Easter and again 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. We operate every Saturday throughout the autumn right up to Christmas and we also run a weeklong course during the October Mid term.
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
Eddie English Blog
September - plenty of action afloat!
The schools have re-opened - a sure sign of change of seasons but we now have excellent weather! - and the prospects are good for the rest of September. The "head of the river" race from COBH to BLACKROCK and on to Cork takes place on Sat 4, we at SailCork have our JUNIOR REGATTA on Sun 12, the dinghy race from Cobh to BALLINACURRA is on Sat 18 as is the "NAVY RACE" to Haulbowline - at SailCork we will be running dinghy sailing, powerboating, cruiser sailing and kayaking at weekends - specialising on juniors on Saturdays and families on Sunday mornings and adults on Sunday afternoons - of course we will have full weekend courses as well ........and at the end of September we begin our evening navigation classes. Click on more below to find out more about the story behind activity afloat on Cork Harbour in September.
