Glandore Harbour Yacht Club has been advised that one of our students was deemed to be a close contact of a positive COVID -19 case from outside the county. Subsequently the student has tested positive for COVID -19. As per our procedures and in accordance with HSE guidelines the committee[…]
ADVANCED TEAM RACE TRAINING
Fancy a week of specialist race coaching? and you don’t even need to stray from GHYC! Beginning 12/07 we have the Irish Sailing Fireflies fleet and an accredited team racing coach at the Club for one week. We will be running two half-day courses throughout that week on team racing[…]
SOLD OUT !
Apologies to people trying to buy courses on EPP for next week (Week 2). Everything is sold out except for a few slots for people who have bought mornings to upgrade to a full day. Please look forward to Week 3 and beyond if you’re trying to buy courses.[…]
IRISH SAILING PASSPORT & CHECKLICK
The Irish Sailing Passport is an online skills tracking, certification and logbook system which uses the Checklick platform. Passport allows new skills to be tracked as you progress through your course so you can check in at any stage to see what you’ve achieved and the other skills you’ll cover. Your Irish Sailing Passport will also allow you to move easily between Irish Sailing Training Centres when doing courses[…]
Gypsy Notes: Don Street shares a letter to his family detailing the adventures of Gypsy & crew in the past week.
Dear all Latest adventures of Gypsy skipper and crew. We have a new crew we are training, a 15yr old, enthusiastic, Ewan Wrenne. Monday, Ewan and I went out for shakedown sail. Tuesday we had Aisling Forde on board but blowing too hard to play with a spinnaker. Wednesday I had high[…]
Beginners Supported Sailing
Beginners Supported Sailing The supported sailing for younger, less experienced members will be available to groups of 8 commencing week of the 13th July This course is a over 5 half days and is available to book on EPP The cost of this course is €140 per head, we will[…]
Courses for Summer of 2021
GHYC offer 3 courses this summer: National Powerboat Certificate Beginners Supported Sailing 5 half days Supported Sailing 5 half days The National Powerboat Certificate is the course to do if you want to drive a powerboat. Start here by filling out the this form. You can purchase membership and courses[…]
Supported Sailing
This year we are not offering the ISA courses as in past years. For Sailors who have achieved at least Level 2 (Basic Skills) and above, we are offering supported sailing and have access to boat of their own. Our instructors developed this plan as a response to the restrictions[…]
Sailing School Update
Sailing School Notice No. 2 The Club has decided that it is not practical to deliver Irish Sailing courses this summer within the current guidelines laid down by government and the ISA, given the unique challenges our location presents. We are offering alternative GHYC Supported Sailing courses: GHYC Supported Sailing[…]
Power Boat Courses
GHYC is accredited to run the ISA National Powerboat Certificate course, a 14-hour module spread over 2 days or 1 full day and 2 evenings. During these courses, participants (who must be 16 years of age or older) will use the club rescue boats (ribs, fun yaks, inboard diesel) to[…]