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The Mantoloking Yacht Club Junior Sailing Program consists of ten consecutive weeks of training in sailboat handling and racing for children over eight years of age. As a minimum, your children will spend their summer outdoors in a supervised environment with other children their own ages. They will acquire a basic understanding of sailing and boating, improve their swimming skills, become "water safe" and compete in local racing events. At best, they will develop a love for sailing that will last a lifetime. The friendships, camaraderie, travel and FUN that are the core of the junior sailing experience will mean more than any trophy that might be won along the way.


Goals of the Mantoloking Yacht Club Sailing Program
Adopted 6/17/90 by resolution of the Sailing Committee

The overriding goal of the sailing program is to teach the participants to sail and then to race.

The goals of the program for beginners are:

• To invite the children to sail by making it enjoyable
• To teach them to sail

• To challenge them and keep them interested in sailing
• To teach them to race
• To instill in them enthusiasm for the sport and a commitment to it
• To instill in them a passion for winning
• To teach them the rules, while keeping in mind that they are a defensive and not an offensive weapon
  
• To help them attain a level of achievement as close as possible to the top level of sailing

• To teach them to be willing to try and not be afraid of failure
• To teach responsibility - both for people and equipment
• To teach teamwork
• To teach pride in Mantoloking Yacht Club
• To teach physical fitness and care for themselves

Photos from the 2006 Sailing Program

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