• Building a life long love of sailingwith an emphasis on sailing skills, safety, and fun.
• Facilitating communication between sailors, parents, instructors, coordinators, trustees, and MRYC flag officers.
• Develop curriculum for sailors interested in recreation and racing for all ages, abilities, and fleets.
• Weekly staff meetings between coaches, coordinators, and the Jr. Sailing trustee to discuss progress, goal setting and curriculum including feedback to sailors and parents.
• Provide guidance to sailors looking to move up to different classes and fleets.

• To ensure sailors sign up in the proper fleet for their sailing abilities.
• Instructors will be on hand to assist with tuning, and pre-race strategy on and off the water, fully engaged with all MRYC participating sailors.
• Other activities such as rigging classes for all fleets throughout the season.

• Fun, early evening races during the week with post race festivities afterwards at the club.

 

US SAILING Youth Championships

 US SAILING's Youth and Junior Championships offer a wide variety of disciplines including invitational, ladder, resume, and open events in which sailors of all ages can test their skills at a national level. The junior and youth events provide an avenue for sailors to compete on a wider basis. Paul Cayard, via the Junior Triplehanded Championship for the Sears Cup, was drawn into first national, then global competition. Anna Tunnicliffe was a participant in the Junior Women's championships before moving onto successes at the U.S. Team and U.S. Women's Match Racing Championships in addition to her gold medal in the Radial class at the 2008 Olympic games.

 The oldest Championship is what is now the U.S. Junior Triplehanded Championships for the Sears Cup. When the Sears Cup was first offered as a perpetual trophy to winners of a sailing competition among Massachusetts youth, the boys were required to wear caps, neckties and jackets while sailing. The girls had to wear dresses. And the sails were canvas. US SAILING's Chubb Junior Championships for the Sears Cup, the Bemis Trophy and Smythe Trophy are ladder‑type events. Competition begins at local districts or Areas and only the top sailors advance to the national finals. A couple of the Championships are open championships where no eliminations are required and all are open to eligible junior sailors. The U.S. Youth Multihull championship for the Stephens Trophy is the newest of these. The U.S. Junior Women’s Championships are an open event for junior women; in the doublehanded, they sail for the Ida Lewis Trophy, while singlehanded junior women compete for the Nancy Leiter Clagett Memorial Trophy. Perhaps the largest of these is US SAILING's Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship which is held biannually. Participants in this championship have been as young as 14.

 

 

Your input is essential to the growth of the Junior Sailing Program at MRYC.  Please take a few minutes to complete the evaluation form for each of your children.  The form can be found by clicking the link below. The completed forms can be given to Jean, Tim, MaryJo, or your fleet parent. Thank you so much!

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