Blueberry Cove, Tenants Harbor - 2-Week session & sailing
This program is for the camper who feels one week of camp is just not enough or for the camper would love to learn to sail. While this session is open to any camper, it is also the session that Blueberry Cove offers a sailing focus with U.S. Sailing Association certified instructors! If you love camp and want to learn to sail…this is the session for you!
Session dates, fees and availability
Sailing
Sailing instruction is provided by the St. George Community Sailing Foundation, which teaches sailing, seamanship and water safety to children and adults on Maine’s Saint George peninsula. The program also encourages respect for our water environment and honors Maine’s nautical history.
Lead by three experienced instructors, certified by the US Sailing Association, campers are given the opportunity to learn about:
- Safety
- Parts of a sailboat
- Wind awareness
- How sails work
- Rigging the boat
- Sailing upwind and downwind
- Capsize and overboard recovery
- Leaving and returning to a dock or mooring
- Right-of-way
- Weather, tides and currents
- Knots and lines
- Ecology of St. George harbors
- History of St. George sailing
And above all, have plenty of FUN!
Boats
- 10 “Hunter 90″ dinghies (also known as “JY 9′s”). These nine foot, single sail catboats are unsinkable and self-right if capsized.
- 4 fourteen foot high-performance “420″ dinghies
- 3 larger sloops
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