Category: Junior Program
Job Description: Volunteer Youth Sailing Instructor Intern
Overview The Club sponsors weekly sailing camps for youths from 6 to 14, with all classes using Club-owned Optimist dinghies. These camps generally are oriented to beginner and intermediate levels although some camps may be designated for youths interested in an introduction to sailboat racing. In addition, the Club has an introductory 2-hour class held [ MORE ]
CYC Hosting Advanced Opti Clinic, Oct. 21-23
CYC is organizing an advanced opti clinic with Pablo Weber this fall. The clinic will be held October 21/23rd. There will be participants from Canada, California and Seattle. The clinic is an invitational event. Invitations are being handled according to sailor’s expertise. This is the third clinic that CYC hosts. For more information about the [ MORE ]
CYC Juniors Lead Opti Fleet at Junior Olympics
CYC juniors took three of the top five places in the Optimist dinghy fleet at the Junior Olympics regatta held the last weekend of August on Shilshole Bay. The event was sponsored by Seattle Yacht Club and based at the Corinthian Shilshole clubhouse. The winning Opti sailor was CYC’s Nico Martin, who won four of [ MORE ]
Blake Bentzen Near Top in Bay Opti Event
CYC Junior Blake Bentzen finished third in his age group and 12th overall in the 57-boat Opti Heavy Weather Regatta hosted by St. Francis Yacht Club June 17 – 19 on San Francisco Bay. Bentzen, son of Paige and Erik Bentzen, said the fact that he was bigger than many of the kids in his [ MORE ]
From the Helm | Junior Sailing
If you haven’t been talking up the CYC junior instructional program to your kids, your grand kids and your friends and their families, it isn’t too late. We have open slots in the program that starts on Wednesday, June 22, and we are looking to fill them and get Seattle’s only junior sailing school on [ MORE ]
