Adult Sailing Classes

Beginning Sailing for Adults (& Teens)

This 3-week evening class is a beginning sailing course that offers instruction on the fundamentals of sailing and boat handling in Club 420s. Adults learn skills such as rigging the boat, knot-tying, tacking and gybing, and landing at the dock or buoy.

If you have a child (age 12 & above) you’d like to learn to sail with, you can register him or her with you for a reduced fee. Couples also receive the lower price—see below.

Level II 420 Sailing for Adults

Prerequisite: Beginning Sailing for Adults or equivalent experience. Students will learn more advanced boat handling techniques in a small class setting. Call Larry Salzman for details at 612-927-8552 or e-mail at sailcalhoun@msn.com.

C Scow Class

In cooperation with the Calhoun Yacht Club, we are offering an opportunity to sail on a C boat, a 20' scow that has been a fixture on the Inland Lakes sailing scene for over 100 years. Members of the Calhoun Yacht Club will be teaching on boats that they typically race on Wednesdays and weekends.

The course is divided into two sessions. Class 53 will present an introduction to sailing and handling a C boat and is a prerequisite for Class 54, which will introduce more advanced sailing and racing techniques and will give students opportunities to steer a C boat in race conditions. This course is not intended for people with no sailing experience.