Speers Point Amateur Sailing Club (SPASC) is an accredited Australian Sailing "Discover Centre" (DSC) with accredited Dinghy Instructors.  DSC’s adhere to standards that ensure safety and customer satisfaction, in order to attain and retain this status.  With a range of courses and coaching SPASC has a pathway to take to sailors with very little sailing experience to a competitive racing level.

Dinghy Sailing - Dinghies courses are tailored for both teenagers and adults and involve sailing on small exhilarating boats (one or two crew).  Dinghies represent an ideal learning platform because thanks to their small size participants are safe and in full control of all sailing aspects. In more experienced hands though dinghies become action-packed boats suitable for sailors looking for a thrilling sail!

We currently run our Adult Learn to Sail courses twice in a sailing season, one course before christmas and another after it.  The course offered is the Australian Sailing syllabus "Start Sailing 1+2", at a cost of $550 per person, plus $125 half season club membership. Series 1 will be run over a nine week period with 2 hour sessions from 11.00am until 1.00pm on Saturdays from 17 October 2026 to 19 December 2026 (except 21st October due to an event in the Park), and involves a mixture of classroom learning, sailing exercises, sailing a triangular course and cruising to a destination. Series 2 runs Feb-Apr2027.

SPASC 2026/27 Sailing Program available HERE.

Sailing classes in our Adult Learn to Sail Program involve learning on Lasers / ILCA 4 dinghys which are provided by SPASC.  All the equipment, including a boat and life jacket, is provided for this course.  After completion of this course, you will be able to participate in our Friday Twilight ILCA Gold Fleet Series, our Sunday 'Adult LTS More sailing' program or Saturday afternoon race series either as a crew or skipper to gain more practice and improve your skills. Club boats can be chartered for use on Fridays/Saturdays/Sundays if they are available.

Eligible persons must be either SPASC Family, Senior, Student or Junior members, so you need to join the club FIRST before you attempt to register for this course. We have a half season membership fee for senior members undertaking the Adult Learn to Sail program of $125. Should you wish to continue sailing in the second half of the season you will need to pay another half season membership fee.

Please refer to SPASC's Youth Sailing Handbook which provides additional detail of our Learn to Sail Programs HERE.

For more information on the SPASC Adult Learn to Sail Program, please email SPASC Secretary on spascsailing@gmail.com, or call SPASC Dinghy Instructor, Mark Rayson on 0432 496 068.

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Course Overview

This course introduces participants to dinghy sailing and its fundamental skills so they learn terminology and equipment and practice launching and returning to shore and capsize recovery. 

Course Prerequisites

Water confident.

Who should do this course?

This course is designed for participants who wish to begin sailing in a dinghy. All the equipment and gear will be provided by your accredited Discover Sailing Centre.

Course Outcome

You will gain your Start Sailing 1 completion certificate. 

 

We recognise that some of our course participants are completing the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award and may be using sailing and/or club membership to complete one or more sections of The Award. To learn more, click here.