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The Barrie Yacht Club Sailing School, the largest on Lake Simcoe, has proudly been teaching the art of sailing for decades. We offer high-quality, affordable learn-to-sail programs tailored to all skill levels and age groups, using Sail Canada’s renowned CANSail curriculum. Whether you're a beginner or looking to advance your skills, our diverse programs for youth and adults provide instruction in dinghies, lasers, and keelboats. Membership at the club is not required to participate.
Our courses are led by certified Sail Canada instructors, with a strong focus on both practical on-water sailing experience and essential knowledge in sailing theory, rigging, and boat maintenance.
Many of our graduates have advanced to compete at provincial, international, and even Olympic levels. Begin or continue your sailing journey with us at the Barrie Yacht Club, where a passion for sailing is nurtured and developed through expert instruction and hands-on experience.
This introductory course offers basic knowledge of navigation theory and is the initial course in a comprehensive set of courses offered by Sail Canada on vessel navigation. The curriculum covers the role of the navigator and introduces the publications, aids to navigation, tools and techniques that support planning and safe passage making. The student is exposed to basic plotting and position-determination methods. This course covers information key to the effective use of electronics. The Sail Canada exam may be written at the conclusion of the course. The Basic Coastal Navigation course is a prerequisite for the Sail Canada Intermediate Cruising course and the Intermediate Coastal Navigation course. Parallel rules and dividers will be required for this course.
Course dates: October 29th, November 5th, 9th, 26th, December 3rd, 10th and 17th
Training Charts will be provided for the course and the Sail Canada Exam.
Important Students Must Purchase: Parallel rules/marine plotter and dividers will be the student's responsibility to obtain prior to the first night of the course.
The sale price on their website is the marked down price for us.
Binnacle Navigation #BN047 8" Brass One Handed Divider
Item Code:5701221830067
Weems & Plath #255 Protractor
Product Code: 721002003171
https://www.marineoutfitters.ca/index.cfm?page=home
Anyone basic cruising certified and wanting to advance to intermediate cruising will require this course. The link to the standard is below. In the standard the resources for the Basic notes, exercises and appendices will be provided by the club.
Full course details available at Sail Canada
https://fr.sailing.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Basic-Coastal-Navigation-3-March-2023r.pdf
For any questions please contact Kevin Lee, Keelboat Director: keelboat@barrieyachtclub.com
On “Lady Nathalie” in Antigua and Barbuda Feb 2-9, 2025 OR Feb 9-16, 2025
Intermediate Cruising Course
- 8 day/7 night live-aboard vacation style course
- Certification required by bareboat charter companies
- Adhere to all Sail Canada and Boating safety protocols
- Perfects sailing maneuvers on all points of sail, tacking, gybing, sailing to weather efficiently, crew overboard. Charting, plotting courses and navigate with hand instruments
- Sailing a compass course
- Proper anchoring techniques
- Maneuvering a larger vessel under power
- Dinghy management
- Focus on resource management
- Builds leadership skills
- Develops prudent skippering skills
- Competently handle a 12 – 14 m vessel
To reserve your berth, please contact Kevin Lee, Keelboat Director: keelboat@barrieyachtclub.com
Full course details available at Sail Canada
https://www.sailing.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Intermediate-Cruise-April-5-2022.pdf
Note: Unless noted otherwise, all Courses are inclusive of breakfast, lunch, daily snacks, non-alcoholic juices, sodas and drinks, anchor, port fees and yacht expenses. Students are welcome to bring their own light alcohol refreshments on board. Students are responsible for their flights, transfers, meals and drinks while visiting shoreside restaurants, alcoholic beverages and dockage outside the first and last day of the course. Due to weather, for the safety of the guests and vessel, the Instructor reserves the right to adjust the itinerary. Students are responsible for arranging their own flights to and from the Caribbean.
Intermediate Cruising Course
- 8 day/7 night live-aboard vacation style course
- Certification required by bareboat charter companies
- Adhere to all Sail Canada and Boating safety protocols
- Perfects sailing maneuvers on all points of sail, tacking, gybing, sailing to weather efficiently, crew overboard. Charting, plotting courses and navigate with hand instruments
- Sailing a compass course
- Proper anchoring techniques
- Maneuvering a larger vessel under power
- Dinghy management
- Focus on resource management
- Builds leadership skills
- Develops prudent skippering skills
- Competently handle a 12 – 14 m vessel
To reserve your berth, please contact Kevin Lee, Keelboat Director: keelboat@barrieyachtclub.com
Note: Unless noted otherwise, all Courses are inclusive of breakfast, lunch, daily snacks, non-alcoholic juices, sodas and drinks, anchor, port fees and yacht expenses. Students are welcome to bring their own light alcohol refreshments on board. Students are responsible for their flights, transfers, meals and drinks while visiting shoreside restaurants, alcoholic beverages and dockage outside the first and last day of the course. Due to weather, for the safety of the guests and vessel, the Instructor reserves the right to adjust the itinerary. Students are responsible for arranging their own flights to and from the Caribbean.
email: rearcommodore@barrieyachtclub.com
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The Barrie Yacht Club Sailing School, the largest on Lake Simcoe, has proudly been teaching the art of sailing for decades. We offer high-quality, affordable learn-to-sail programs tailored to all skill levels and age groups, using Sail Canada’s renowned CANSail curriculum. Whether you're a beginner or looking to advance your skills, our diverse programs for youth and adults provide instruction in dinghies, lasers, and keelboats. Membership at the club is not required to participate.
Our courses are led by certified Sail Canada instructors, with a strong focus on both practical on-water sailing experience and essential knowledge in sailing theory, rigging, and boat maintenance.
Many of our graduates have advanced to compete at provincial, international, and even Olympic levels. Begin or continue your sailing journey with us at the Barrie Yacht Club, where a passion for sailing is nurtured and developed through expert instruction and hands-on experience.