The Halloween Sailing course took place this week at the Irish National Sailing & Powerboat School.
Great pirate fun was had by Sea Explorers, aged 4 to 6, from venturing along the seashore towards Seapoint to trying out their sea legs on the "pirate ship" in the harbour, while the weather was favourable!
Meanwhile, the older age groups managed some intensive sailing in the 7-10 years age group with Optimists and the 11-14 years age group with RS Zests, RS Fevas and Toppers, weather being moderate to fair for the majority of the days, allowing for plenty of sailing experience within the safe confines of the harbour.
Conditions were to worsen mid-week, but didn't stop the two older groups from venturing out onto the water for a quick paddle in their boats. Later on, that same very wet day saw for some good marine and boat theory work take place indoors in the recently renovated clubhouse. Thankfully the much-improved weather on Thursday and Friday allowed for dinghy and keelboat sailing.
The school was generally abuzz this week with the 22 trainee dinghy instructors in for the week practising in the RS Quests.
1720
As the Juniors were heading afloat, the school’s fleet of 1720s were coming ashore and the maintenance crew got to work on the annual winter jobs.
One of the 1720s was also prepared to participate in the DBSC Turkey Shoot starting on Sunday.
RS21
School instructors onboard this 1720 will be joined next weekend by the new RS21 keelboat currently competing at the World Championships in Croatia skippered by Kenny Rumball. Demonstrations of the RS21 are available on Sunday mornings and interested sailors should contact [email protected].
Shanahan Cup School’s Team Racing Event
Between the maintenance jobs, preparations continued for the school’s RS Feva fleet in advance of the Shanahan Cup School’s Team Racing Event hosted by the Irish National Sailing & Powerboat School in conjunction with Gonzaga College next Wednesday, 9th November. 72 sailors are signed up to compete, and the event is supported by the Irish RS Sailing agent MarineServices.ie.
Now, as the school looks forward to next Saturday's Sailing Junior Club series before the Christmas break, they hope to see the Halloween campers put into practice their new and enhanced sailing and seamanship skills learnt this week.