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RYA Youth Stage 2

RYA Youth Stage 2

Suitable for Year 5 and upwards - Two days; 0930 to 1630 - Fourteen hours total for only £50!  (Usually £150 pp!)

Full payment upfront required - deposit only for RST Funding only, see below.
All equipment provided, RYA Youth Syllabus and logbook included.

Two Day skills development course to work towards your RYA Stage 2 Youth Award.

Four children minimum required to run the course, which runs with a maximum of six children.

Stage 2 - Develop the skills needed to sail around a course and understand the basic principles needed to become a confident sailor
https://www.rya.org.uk/training/courses/youth-sailing-scheme-start-sailing-stage-2-sss2c

RYA Youth Sailing Scheme Syllabus - Stage 2

Rigging, Launching &Recovery

  • Can put a boat head to wind for rigging
  • Can rig a dinghy
  • Understands how to manoeuvre a trolley clear of other boats and overhead cables
  • Can launch and recover a small dinghy in an offshore wind

Ropework

 • round turn and two half hitches • reef knot

Practical Sailing Techniques + Manoeuvres

  • Can control speed, and stop by lying-to
  • Can get out of irons
  • Can go about (close reach to close reach)
  • Can crew a boat effectively
  • Can sail a shallow triangle across the wind under supervision (gybing optional)

Understands the principles of:

  • The five essentials
  • Returning to a beach or pontoon (offshore wind)

Clothing + Equipment

  • Can choose and correctly adjust a personal buoyancy aid
  • Understands what to wear

Capsize

• Can be scooped in during capsize recovery Or • Can right a single-handed dinghy

Background

  •  Understands the No Go Zone
  • Knows what is meant by windward, leeward, gybe

Has knowledge of:

  • Spars and rigging
  • Parts of the sail
  • Sail controls and foils
  • Offshore and onshore winds
  • Telling someone ashore
  • The dangers of man-made hazards

Rules of the Road

• Port and Starboard rule

 The Rawdon-Smith Trust is offering financial support to young people. .-  They will pay 2/3 of the cost; please pay using the RST Funding Option . 

If you have not completed a medical consent and permissions form for 2026, or if information changes during the year, please use this link to complete:  Medical Consent Form

 

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