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ISA and JUNIOR SAILING COURSES 2009

Update June 4th

† No sailing will take place on August 3rd (Bank holiday)
+ All applicants for Improving and Advanced Skills must have access to a suitable boat, which is seaworthy.

Club Membership
For insurance reasons, only fully paid up club members can participate on the courses. Please note that family membership covers parents and their children, this does not include cousins who will need to take out junior membership unless already covered by their own family membership. The ISA requires GHYC to return €16 euros per junior member and only slightly more for family membership therefore, junior membership is available for one child only; family membership is required when further children wish to join. MEMBERSHIP FORM HERE

Deductions
There is no reduction for the first child doing the longest/highest course, after that a reduction of €25.00 applies to a one week course and €50 euro reduction applies to a two week course and finally €75 to a three week course. No deduction on adult courses or the 4 day Start Sailing course.

Payment
The full fee must accompany the application form. If there is an error in payment, the form(s) will re returned and courses places will not be held until full payment has been received. Course fees once paid are non-refundable.

Shore Duty
Junior Sailing Courses are dependent on the help of adult members to provide any necessary shore support. This mainly involves being a point of contact, holding the first aid kit and having a vehicle available for any emergency purpose. Two parents are required for both morning and afternoon sessions, which overlap to provide safety cover during lunchtime. Please register for shore duty on the first day of your child’s course. The Shore Duty Rota is an important safety backup on our courses and it is expected that parents should cover one half-day session per week per participant.

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GHYC Sailing Course Notes and Code of Conduct

• Minimum age for ISA courses is 10 years. • Applicants must be able to swim 25 meters in their clothes. Swimming test is mandatory for anyone sailing with GHYC for the first time. It takes place on the first morning so bring old clothes.
• ISA courses commence at l0am and finish at 5pm with a lunch break lpm-2pm. Lunch is to be supplied from home. All sailors should be ready in appropriate gear at course commencement times.
• The club is not responsible for the children at lunchtime. However Shore Parents will be on hand to provide safety cover.
• Course fees once paid are non-refundable.
• Buoyancy aids and appropriate footwear must be worn at all times (i.e. no flip flops on the water). Any infringement of these rules means automatic dismissal from the course.
• Wetsuits are highly recommended for all levels but are not mandatory (yet). Cold children cannot learn properly, and are more likely to have accidents. Weather gear, sun and wind protection, should be brought each day and a change of warm clothing including shoes.
• Jumping off the pier or throwing / pushing anyone off the pier is strictly forbidden during the course, including lunchtime.
• Through our courses we aim to help sailors improve their sailing skills in a friendly and fun environment. Any sailor disrupting this will receive a warning. If the disruption continues they will be dismissed from the course. • A strict no smoking ban applies during the sailing course.
• Participants are expected to obey their instructors and adult supervisors and also to sail fairly, do their best and have fun. While every effort is made to keep course participants occupied for the full day, in bad weather conditions it may be necessary to send them home so a valid phone number is essential.

Student Supplied Boats
Sailors who register as boat-owners must present a sea-worthy boat on the first day of their course. The instructors will assess boats, and any boats judged unsuitable for any reason will not be used and the higher course fee for non-boat-owners will then be charged. If there is no boat available that they can use then they cannot do the course. Owner supplied boats must carry appropriate liability insurance.

Boat Damage
If damage occurs to a boat during the sailing course, the party responsible for causing the damage should cover the repair costs. There are rules governing liability for damages caused by collisions. If boats are racing when a collision occurs, then liability is decided on the basis of the Racing Rules of Sailing. At other times, the International Rules for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea apply.
PLEASE NOTE: The ISA Level assessments after Start Sailing are challenging, geared towards sailors who participate in their sport for three or even four seasons of the year, and for whom it may represent their main sporting activity. Most of our sailors at GHYC are summer sailors, and many do not sail at all other than for the duration of their course. For this reason, it is to be expected that most of our sailors will spend at least two seasons at each level this is necessary if they are to attain the standard prescribed by the ISA, and helps them to gain confidence and skill at a rate appropriate to their actual experience on the water. As parents, it is important that we explain this properly before they begin the course, and help them to understand that their ISA courses represent a learning curve over time, rather than a ladder of tests that they can expect to pass on an annual basis. The New Structure in place this year will make this more complicated for all of us but our instructors are happy to explain to sailors and their parents the rationale of test decisions; if during the 2009 season, such discussions become difficult, they will be referred to the Junior committee for resolution.

Please print a separate course application form for each sailor Course Application Form