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Clinics and Instruction
Please use the club calendar to register for the events listed below.
For detailed online Ideal 18 instruction, visit the Pequot YC One Design Instruction Website. You will find information on boat handling, boat speed, strategy, tactics, and team racing for Ideal 18 Sailing.
May 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
Come work on your boat handling as well as learn strategies and tactics for 2v2 team racing. Skippers range from high level drivers to learning team racing. There are no spinnakers, so this can be a good place for less experienced crews to learn a fun discipline of the game, and to improve their non-spinnaker boat handling.
Tune-up Clinic (Sunday) 1:00pm-4:00pm
May 31st, June 7th, June 14th
For new and returning sailors. Covers Ideal basics: rigging, docking, sail trim, tacking, jibing and more. 3-session series builds on each clinic, sailors should attend all three.
Spinnaker Clinic (Sunday) 10:00am-4:00pm.
Sunday, June 28th.
10am to noon will be a dockside spinnaker class demonstrating how to fly the spinnaker. We will break for lunch, and then regroup at 1pm to rig and go practice on the water.
How to be a Better Crew (Monday) 6:00pm-8:00pm
Monday, July 6th
Dave and Betsy Perry will lead an interactive discussion on how to become a better crew w/ focus on winning communication, trim & tips for supporting your skipper and team. Open to all Levels of Crew & Skippers. Happy Hour follows.
Sponsor/SAM Social (Thursday) 6:00pm-8:00pm
Thursday, May 21st
Bringing the SAMs and Sponsors together on shore to get to know each other and learn more about the club.
Sponsor Sail with a SAM (Friday) 5:00pm-7:00pm
Friday, August 7th
Bringing the SAMs and Sponsors together on the water to get to know each other and learn more about the club.
Melges Rig Day (Saturday)
Saturday, May 16th (1pm)
Melges Demo Day (Saturday)
Saturday, June 20th (10am)
Please use the club calendar to register for the events listed below.
For detailed online Ideal 18 instruction, visit the Pequot YC One Design Instruction Website. You will find information on boat handling, boat speed, strategy, tactics, and team racing for Ideal 18 Sailing.
Ideal 18 Clinics f0r 2026
Team Racing Practice (Tuesday), 6pm-9pmMay 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
Come work on your boat handling as well as learn strategies and tactics for 2v2 team racing. Skippers range from high level drivers to learning team racing. There are no spinnakers, so this can be a good place for less experienced crews to learn a fun discipline of the game, and to improve their non-spinnaker boat handling.
Tune-up Clinic (Sunday) 1:00pm-4:00pm
May 31st, June 7th, June 14th
For new and returning sailors. Covers Ideal basics: rigging, docking, sail trim, tacking, jibing and more. 3-session series builds on each clinic, sailors should attend all three.
Spinnaker Clinic (Sunday) 10:00am-4:00pm.
Sunday, June 28th.
10am to noon will be a dockside spinnaker class demonstrating how to fly the spinnaker. We will break for lunch, and then regroup at 1pm to rig and go practice on the water.
How to be a Better Crew (Monday) 6:00pm-8:00pm
Monday, July 6th
Dave and Betsy Perry will lead an interactive discussion on how to become a better crew w/ focus on winning communication, trim & tips for supporting your skipper and team. Open to all Levels of Crew & Skippers. Happy Hour follows.
Sponsor/SAM Social (Thursday) 6:00pm-8:00pm
Thursday, May 21st
Bringing the SAMs and Sponsors together on shore to get to know each other and learn more about the club.
Sponsor Sail with a SAM (Friday) 5:00pm-7:00pm
Friday, August 7th
Bringing the SAMs and Sponsors together on the water to get to know each other and learn more about the club.
Melges 15 Clinics for 2026
Melges Rig Day (Saturday)Saturday, May 16th (1pm)
Melges Demo Day (Saturday)
Saturday, June 20th (10am)
Ideal 18 Instruction with Ginny Worcester
These tutorials helps you get out on the water, from rigging to launching, sailing and docking – all from the Community Sailing docks in Southport Harbor. Here is a link to their Training Video and Presentation website.
Introduction to the Ideal 18
Reefing the Mainsail and Setting the Spinnaker
Knots Made Easy
This FREE video series includes nine of the most important sailing knots, explaining what they’re used for and how to tie them. You can watch one or watch them all, and practice before you get out on the water. Knots in this series includes:
- Bowline
- Fast Bowline
- Cleat Hitch
- Clone Hitch
- Coiling / Flaking a Line
- Figure 8 / Stopper Knot
- Square / Reef Knot
- Rolling Hitch
- Round Turn & Two Half Hitches
