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Island Barn Reservoir Sailing Club offers beginners sailing courses for adults and juniors. Whether you're looking for relaxing cruising or competitive racing - learn to sail in Surrey, just 15 miles from Charing Cross!
Our courses combine the excitement of sailing with the laid-back atmosphere you'll only get at a friendly club such as Island Barn. At the end of the course, you will be invigorated, relaxed and smiling! And you'll take away a skill for life.
This page tells you all about our dinghy and powerboat training courses - don't forget to scroll down further to find useful rescue information for your duty days.
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RYA Courses and Qualifications
Learn to sail with the National Sailing Scheme and become a competant sailor. The RYA scheme is a series courses from adults wanting to learn in dinghies through to advanced sailing skills. Our courses have been designed to help you enjoy whichever aspect of the sport appeals to you and they are taught by qualified RYA instructors
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Adult Training Course - TrySail
Tuesday night TrySail is the perfect opportunity to learn how to sail in a laid back a laid-back structured training programme. A chance to try sailing at a low cost, just £5 per session when purchased as a complete season!
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RYA Stages 1 - 4 Junior Qualifications
Learn to sail with the National Sailing Scheme
The scheme is a series courses for junior club sailors wanting to convert what they have learned from the sailing school into recognised qualifications.
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Junior Training Scheme
The aim of these sessions is to offer children and youths up to the age of 18, from complete beginners upwards, a structured course starting with basic theory and sailing in a straight line, through beating, tacking, reaching, running, gybing, to race theory and a number of short races.
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Training Guide
Discover our training guide, 20 pages of lessons and techniques to help you learn and improve your sailing skills.
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Technical Terms
Any profession or sport involving equipment inevitably accumulates a lexicon of technical terms. In this section we'll cover most of what you'll need to know by the end of your first serious season's sailing.
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Beginners Guide To Racing
This information is to help non-racing IBRSC members (and of course new members for the club) to join in the fun on Saturdays, Sundays and Wednesdays. This is not a racing tutorial, more of a survival guide to let you get a taste for it all.
Click here for the beginners guide to racing sail boats
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