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Introduction
Congratulations! You have taken on an exciting challenge that can provide a great future for our sport by offering an opportunity for teenagers to learn how to sail a big boat. As you are aware, keeping teens in sailing has been a significant challenge to every sail training facility. This program addresses that challenge, and this guide has been prepared to help you in that effort. It may cover things you already know and it certainly can be modified as needed for your local situation. However, it provides a suggested outline of topics and procedures that may be helpful as well as refresh what you already know.
If your background is in sailing instruction you’ll find that coaching a team is a bit different. You need to teach and coach each person individually, but spend more time coaching the entire team to work together as a unit. The success of this JBBS program is highly dependent on the Coach to help the crew work together in learning big boat skills. That means identifying every individual’s strengths and weaknesses while working on timing and coordination of crew work. If you do your job well, you’ll see smooth maneuvers, a sense of team and good communication skills among the teens.
What exactly is the Junior Big Boat Sailing Program?
The Junior Big Boat Sailing (JBBS) Program is an opportunity for teens to sail with an instructor, or coach, on 35-45 foot well-outfitted sailboats. The JBBS program is structured around the use of a volunteered big boat lent for use to the program by a club member, owner, or volunteer who receives no compensation for the use of the boat or its equipment. The program allows new sailors to learn the ropes on a big boat platform - or experienced junior sailors can apply their small boat sailing skills to a new challenge. The JBBS program highlights fun, socialization and teamwork. With JBBS skills, teens can be valuable crew on cruising boats and club racers.
The program offers an introduction to Big Boat sailing through a framework of skills designed to provide teens with the resources to participate in overnight cruises or weekly race series. We’ve provided outlines, lesson plans, evaluations and additional resources which hopefully will be of use to you.
The Introductory course is focused on skill development and the social aspects of big boat sailing and is not intended to be a formal “lean-to-race” program. The Introductory group does not go beyond the use of an asymmetrical spinnaker or practice on racing techniques, but rather prepares the individual to be crew on a cruising type offshore boat.
To supplement the primary curriculums, the program also works with the Junior Safety-at-Sea Program from the Storm Trysail Club. We have outlined how you can connect with that organization in this material.
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