Paremata Boating Club offers an adult Learn to Sail program. This covers YNZ level 1 and is done using using our 2-person club Topaz yachts. These have proven to be an excellent platform for learning to sail for 1 or 2 people. You will learn to sail these boats with 2 people, both as skipper and crew, and also sail them on your own.
This provides 12 hours of coaching which is done with a Yachting NZ qualified coach.
The course covers the Yachting NZ Level 1 syllabus which includes:
- Safety
- Knowing your boat
- Capsizing
- Launching and Retrieving
- Sail Trim and boat trim
- Steering
- Rigging
- Knots
- Tacking
- Gybing
- Points of sail
- Rules and Meanings