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2016 Parent Handbook Sagamore Junior Sailing Program 2016 PARENT HANDBOOK Revised June 10, 2016 Sagamore Junior Sailing Program / LuHi Parent Handbook LuHi, welcome to the 2016 Sagamore Junior Sailing Program! These pages are meant to be a parent’s and future junior sailor’s guide in navigating the child’s way through the rewarding sport of junior sailing. In these pages you will find details on recommended equipment for the children to bring to the program, goals the program will focus for your child and the expectations of the parents themselves. The LuHi Summer Sailing Program is for Grades 4 thru 9. Sagamore Junior Sailing Mission The Sagamore Junior Sailing (SJS) Fleet’s Mission is to provide a fun and educational program for youth interested in sailing and racing. We seek to impart a love of sailing as a life sport while providing the fundamental skills necessary for participants to advance in the sport of sailing as far as their desire, skill and hard work may take them. Our instructors shall provide a curriculum with the most current and effective techniques to create skilled and confident youths who will respect others, care for their equipment and be willing to help fellow sailors on and off the water. Our sailors will be expected to conduct themselves in the Corinthian Spirit during practice and in competition. All Junior Fleet sailors, whether their interest be in cruising or racing, should emerge with an enhanced sense of self-reliance, knowledge of seamanship and a solid foundation in the sport of sailing. An Overview of Junior Sailing Junior Sailing can be like any other full time sport such as baseball, soccer or tennis – what a child puts into it will determine what a child will get out of the program. Some of the skill sets that will be taught are self-reliance, working towards a goal, personal commitment and accountability. We believe the achievements of the above objectives will grow naturally through your child’s competitive nature as their self-confidence is quietly fortified. We will balance the competitive drive with an emphasis on sportsmanship and fun. We also believe that while your child works on the above objectives in a sailing environment, it can only instill the appreciation of the outdoors as weather and the surrounding environment will be part of their sailing each and every day. We feel that our junior sailing program is for every child that can swim and likes the water. Rest assured, our program will undoubtedly get children away from the video games and into an active, healthy and thought provoking environment where new friends will be made as your child grows in a sport that is active from these young ages through the college years and well beyond. Junior sailing is perfect for all children tall or short, young boys or young girls, as wit and tenacity in this sport does not care what age or gender you may be. Sailing is a true co-ed sport even at the college level and beyond. Some of the greatest sailors in the world are women. Presently our Olympic team boasts of some of the highest ranking women in the sport. Sagamore Junior Sailing Program / LuHi Parent Handbook What Junior Sailing has become: 1) Opportunity for young children to experience true independence, where they will learn a few skills, get in a boat and will grow as they feel the excitement of freedom and satisfaction of pure individual achievements. 2) A worldwide sport with opportunities for every child to excel regardless of gender, financial status or race. 3) Avenues to be great at an individual or team sport. 4) The beginning of a journey of a true lifelong friendship, where experience with nature is complimented by the high quality of the people that are met along the way. Starting in the lifelong path of Sailing Unlike all other sports, sailors have a longer sport lifespan. It is common to see sailors successfully competing into their 70s and beyond. The average span of most other athletes is less than 10 years and most amateurs are fading by the age of 40. An objective of all Junior Programs is to cultivate the love of sailing in children so they may grow in a sport that will warmly embrace their dedication for the rest of your child’s life. Generally a child will start sailing in an Optimist at the young age of 8 and after a few years will progress into other fleets like the Laser, Blue Jay and Club 420. These other fleets can be the next sailing platform from the age of 11 or 12 (depending on your child’s size and weight) then through your child’s college years. It is also not uncommon for children, after a few years of sailing dinghies, to try out their knowledge as crew on larger boats in the sailing fleets in the harbor. Wednesday nights in Oyster Bay you can find some of these young children assisting racing personally owned sailing vessels or on other days of the week in classic boats from Oakcliff Sailing. Sagamore Junior Sailing Program / LuHi Parent Handbook Kiersten Fitzpatrick, Head Instructor Kiersten is joining us for her second year as Head Instructor at Sagamore Junior Sailing. Kiersten raced in the JSA for 8 years on optimists, pixels & 420s across Long Island as well as Connecticut. Kiersten found racing to be a great aspect of sailing that overall increased her love for the sport. She looks forward to a great season of fun and learning! Kiersten Fitzpatrick is a Junior at Geneseo State University. Kiersten will share her cell phone number with the parents the first day of each session, and you can reach her at [email protected]. Kayla Young, Instructor Kayla is from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and is currently studying geology at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, where she team races. She enjoys sailing and racing and is excited to spend another summer on the water. Her sailing experience comes from cruises with her family and instruction from a sailing camp in North Carolina. This is her second season at Sagamore. Previously she worked as a Junior Instructor at American Yacht Club and raced in the Junior Sailing Association as a 420 crew and a Big Boat Navigator. She is experienced in a wide range of sailing including windsurfing, dinghies, and keel boats Sagamore Junior Sailing Program / LuHi Parent Handbook Joe Plisic, Instructor Joe comes to us from the Sagamore Yacht Club family where he has contributed for his whole life. His experiences are vast and varied, from JSA in C420’s, high school sailing on 420s at the Waterfront Center to collegiate sailing at Syracuse, to team racing (McIntyre 3rd place), to seven years of big boat experience, including match racing, Wednesday night racing, one design, long distance, offshore racing, and cruising, including a 3rd place overall in the Around Long Island Regatta (2014). Joe was an Oakcliff Offshore and High Performance acorn graduate in 2014 and is a fully certified Nassau County Lifeguard. We are looking forward to Joe adding a big boat focus to Sagamore Junior Sailing. Lucy O’Quigley, Instructor Lucy joins us from University College, Dublin. She has been involved in collegiate racing, including team racing for three years. She has worked as a sailing instructor and coach in Ireland since 2012. Her experience has been split between teaching beginners and experienced students in multiple yacht clubs. “I taught groups of students to be comfortable and competent in the boat based on their own learning of the basics of sailing in a fun, focused, safe manner.” She is an expert in a range of dingies, including Optimists. She is a past national champion in the Topaz class and was a member of the team placing 2nd in the Irish National Team Racing Event in 2015. Sagamore Junior Sailing Program / LuHi Parent Handbook Sabrina Lorson, Instructor Sabrina is our newest instructor, and comes with a wide range of sailing experience. She is an experience Laser campaigner, in both JSA and Laser Class regattas. She comes to us with experience from Port Washington and Manhasset Bay Yacht Clubs, both in junior sailing, national events, big boat events and frostbiting. She was a member of the Advanced Opti Racing Team and has raced in numerous venues since 2007. We are excited to have Sabrina join us. Todd Field, Sagamore Junior Sailing, Program Manager. Todd will be joining us for another season as Program Manager. He has extensive racing experience in many classes, venues and formats. He has been a sailing instructor at multiple facilities and his children went through JSA as well. Todd is a certified Area Race Officer and is a US Sailing Judge in Training. He has run junior championship events in the Northeast and California. He has run many international match race events for Oakcliff Sailing, and has won the YRALIS (Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound) Roger H Shope award for excellence in race management. Professionally, Todd is a certified project manager (PMP) and a certified Agile ScrumMaster. Todd’s commitment to junior sailing is multi-generational. His parents were head of sailing programs. He has been involved his whole life in sailing programs. His parents raced, ran sailing programs and were race officers. His sister taught sailing. His children taught sailing. (Elsbeth was head instructor at Manhasset Bay Yacht Club.) And he is looking forward to his granddaughter learning to sail! Sagamore Junior Sailing Program / LuHi Parent Handbook Parental involvement has always been excellent at SJS. Todd will be continuing his efforts to bring parents to the regattas, to share the experiences with their children.
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