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Pre-Racing NYC Club Optimists Pre-Summer Training 2024
NOTE: we will also be offering coaching during Friday Night Series (for racers and non racers).
The pre-Summer Optimist programme is offering a 4 Sundays afternoon sailing clinic:
- Sunday 21st of April
- Sunday 28th of April
- Sunday 18th of May
- Sunday 25th of May
Time: 1:00pm - 4:30pm
Price : âŹ100
For further details and to register, please click here
29er pre-summer coaching 2024 – series 1
"Boat handling & completing race size courses"
Following demand and to launch the summer racing season, the first coaching series is proposed. Coaches will focus on boat handling skills to decrease handling errors leading to capsizes and improve fluidity in delivering all key manoeuvres. At the completion of the programme, coaches will produce a progress report to all sailors.
Sessions will start rigged and ready for briefing at 13.00 and is expected to be finished by 17.00.
Dates: 21-04, 12-05, 18-05 (Saturday), 26-05
Cost of the programme: âŹ120/sailor
The club 29er is available for this programme and must be requested to the head coach prior to booking.
For further details and to register, please click here
Topper & ILCA 4 Pre-Summer Coaching 2024 – Series 1
"Starting well and first decision"
Following demand and to launch the summer racing season, the first coaching series is proposed. Coaches will focus on start techniques and tactics mainly. At the completion of the programme, coaches will produce a progress report to all sailors.
Sessions will start rigged and ready for briefing at 13.00 and is expected to be finished by 17.00. dates: 20-04, 27-04, 18-05, 25-05
Cost of the programme: 120EUR/sailor
Club Topper charter (8 boats) are available for this programme (within availability): 100EUR/sailor; Club ILCA4 charter (one boat) is available for this prgramme: 120EUR/sailor
For further details and to register, please click here
Racing Optimists Pre-Summer Coaching 2024 – Series 1: Starting well and first decision
Following demand and to launch the summer racing season, the first coaching series is proposed. It will be led by NYC Coach Sam Ledoux (former member of the Optimist Irish Team - top 10 at the Optimist Europeans, former ILCA Academy member and current senior 49er development Irish team). Sam will focus on start techniques and tactics mainly. At the completion of the programme, Sam will issue a progress report to all sailors.
Sessions will start rigged and ready for briefing at 13.00 and is expected to be finished by 17.00. Dates: 20-04, 27-04, 18-05, 25-05
cost of the programme: âŹ120/sailor or âŹ36 per session
For more details and to register, please click here
Cruising Group â âSail in Companyâ to Greystones â Sunday 5th – Monday 6th May
This is the first of our âSail in Companyâ cruises of 2024 as part of the NYC Cruising Group. The plan is to depart Dun Laoghaire at 12:30 on Sunday 5 May on board our boats and muster in the area of Scotsmanâs Bay before departing for Greystones. We are hoping...
Assistant instructors position 2024
The National Yacht Club is currently seeking to recruit a team of committed and enthusiastic Assistant Instructors for the 2024 summer sailing courses.
Transition Year (TY) sailors who wish to apply for the position of Assistant Instructors at NYC over summer 2024 should complete the form below before midnight on 5th May 2024
The role is relevant to any individual, 16 or over with the required certification who has completed Transition Year and is interested in encouraging children to learn how to sail under the direct supervision of NYC instructors at all times. Assistant instructors are required to hold their Motorboat licence; First Aid cert; Safeguarding cert; Garda vetting cert (Note that only applications from sailors who have completed TY will be considered).
For further details and to apply, please click here
Quiz News
While the Brains of the Bay champions Wizard are off sunning themselves in gentler climes, the final quiz of the 2023/24 season took place on Wednesday, 3rd April, when 18 teams joined us to dine ahead of a typically exasperating set of quiz questions. A competitive heat had several team teams lead the way through the evening, with Grasshopper, T.B.M., The Dirty Ruckers, and Celtic Boys all holding the lead at one point before Enchantress stayed on well in the home straight to storm clear.
It was some Enchantress-ed evening* (the Quizmaster has run out of magic-related puns) as Enchantress benefitted from a slip by T.B.M. to gain 2nd place in the overall series by the margin of a single point. Corner Boys did a Lazarus and came 4th, with Stars of the Sea continuing their good end-of-season form to take 5th spot overall. Former Commodore Martin McCarthy was on hand to present Enchantress their prizes on the night (pictured).
Through the winter, we had a big number of teams participate in the quizzes â 24 in total! â and each evening provides great competition and amusement. All members are encouraged to come along and join us in this enjoyable and sociable round of events. We will be back in October (dates to be confirmed) and all are welcome.
* You may see a stranger, across a crowded room, and somehow you know âŠ. they know the answer, and you donât!
The Quizmaster