YHA Sailing & Outdoor Club, Sydney & Newcastle

Please email directly and supply information below, as well as RSVP. Also use email (or phone) for queries (not Meetup messages). Cost and more details are below.

Enjoy pretty Lake Macquarie (2 hours from Sydney) while zipping along on our catamarans and getting a good introduction to sailing. More exciting than being on a yacht ! We have 18-foot, 16-foot and 14-foot catamarans. No experience is required.

Email Mark Lovi (marklovi.nc@gmail.com) as well as RSVPing. I will then send you details. Enquiries: 0408993493. In your email, please advise the following:

• Confirm you are double vaccinated.
• Do you have your own transport ? If so, are you prepared to give others lifts ?
• If you don't have your own transport, what suburb do you live in (you can send this later)
• Contact phone number (you can send this later)
• Do you have a tent ? We can hire but you must have your own sleeping bag.
• Can you swim (we wear lifejackets but cannot take non-swimmers)
• Are you reasonably agile ? We don’t need super athletes, but you are sitting on a flat deck (not a seat) and you need to be able to move 3 metres to the other side of the boat at reasonable speed. A simple test is whether you can lie flat on a carpet and stand up within 4 seconds without using furniture.
• We cannot take people weighing more than 95 kg (even if agile).

COST: Sailing fee $70, camping $23, lift $30, tent hire $10. You need your own sleeping bag.

This is a weekend event – we need people to attend for both days to assist in rigging and derigging. Plan to arrive at Lake Macquarie by 10am Saturday and be back in Sydney by 7pm on the Sunday. Camping is at a caravan park with facilities. We are a long-established sailing group run by the YHA. We hold sailing weekends every 4 weeks. NO SAILING EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY. Catamaran sailing is a fun and exciting way to experience the water, as the boats zip along in the wind. The boats are easy to sail and offer a good opportunity for anyone who wants to learn or experience sailing by getting some practice on either handling the jib, trapezing (hanging out the side of the boat on a harness) or skippering. We are not a "racing" group, we just like to be on the water and away from Sydney for a weekend, taking it easy.