While GHYC’s main training motto has always been to have fun while teaching sailing in a safe and beautiful environment, GHYC is an Irish Sailing registered training centre and runs a very comprehensive range of IS training courses every Summer (July & August) ranging from a Taste of Sailing for the very young beginners (minimum age 9) to the comprehensive advanced courses such as Kites & Wires, Adventure and Go Racing. These courses use a mixture of the club fleet of 20 sailing dinghies and privately owned boats (eg Topper Topaz, Laser, RS Feva) and are run by a highly motivated team of IS trained instructors.

These courses follow a very structured IS syllabus details of which are on the Irish Sailing website and are a progressive series of courses designed to build up a complete set of sailing skills over time, usually 5-6 seasons. Juniors begin with the Start Sailing Module (minimum age = 10), followed by Basic Skills, followed by Improving Skills. Then they move up to Advanced Boat Handling which can be followed by any (or all) of the Advanced modules mentioned above. In this way they develop a complete set of sailing skills.