Watersports Week

Overview

This 5-day watersports week aims to get children outdoors, whether it be sailing, windsurfing, stand up paddle boarding or rowing. A fun week of water-based activities will be one they won’t forget.

Requirements

Ability: Ideally, being able to swim and participants can apply sunscreen themselves

Age: 9+ years

Details

Duration: 5 Days

Instructor to Student Ratio: 1:6

Location: Harrington Sound & Castle Harbour

Standard Timings: 9am to 5pm *

Minimum Group Size: 3**

Maximum Group Size: 6

Maximum Total Booking Capacity: 12

* The timings may vary slightly between different activity weeks, across different centres but this will be confirmed in the welcome email.

Due to covid-19, we are staggering drop off and pick up timings of the activity week groups to keep gatherings to a minimum at the centre.

**Please Note: A minimum of 2 participants is needed to guarantee this course to run.

Itinerary

A sample itinerary for our 5 day watersports week which can change slightly depending on weather, group sizes/ages and location.

Day 1

The week begins with a centre site tour and introduction to get familiar with the facilities and safety items. Students will learn how to correctly wear a buoyancy aid and know the importance of wearing sunscreen to protect your skin. The first day will give the participants a brief understanding of where the wind comes from, basic boat control to starting and stopping, sailing across the wind in our RS Zest in pairs and learning how to turn the boat through the wind on a reach to reach course.

Day 2

On the this day, you will recap the basics of sailing across the wind including turning the boat by learning to sail around a reach to reach figure of 8 course. Towards the afternoon, you will take one of the RS Zest sailing dinghies and learn how to turn it into a rowing boat. You will learn the basics to rowing and will either have a short distance rowing race or even a rowing relay race.

Day 3

The day will take you through your first steps of balancing on the board in preparation for your first windsurf session. There will be a variety of fun stand up paddleboard relay games. Towards the afternoon, you will learn how to adapt a windsurf kit onto the board and learn the basics of getting onto the board, feet positioning on the board, uphauling the rig, static position including static turn and getting to the sailing position.

Day 4

The day will entail you to refresh the sailing skills of stopping and starting, sailing across the wind and turning through the wind. The instructor will give a demonstration to the capsize recovery technique. You will further progress with leaning the basics to sailing upwind on a close reach and downwind on a broad reach.

Day 5

On the final day, you will begin to look at downwind sailing further with an instructor demonstration of a gybe. Towards the afternoon, a choice of the four disciplines covered will be chosen from all participants. Either sailing, windsurfing, paddle boarding or rowing.

Equipment

We provide the boats, buoyancy aid, water refill station (Please bring your own water bottle for refilling, No Cups will be provided)

Facilities

We have a covered shaded area where we can have land based discussions with a big whiteboard, sit to eat lunch or just take a break. We have changing and rest rooms available for use as well as a shower.

Prices

Please check our availability by going to our booking page

This price includes all equipment and tuition. It does not include accommodation or food

A la carte Lunch Options are available as extra from Castle Harbour.

Book Now

If you have any questions at all and would like to speak to our team, please call or email us at [email protected]. Alternatively, please click the button below to be taken through to our booking pages where you can find out information about dates and availability.

Harrington Sound availability & booking

Castle Harbour availability & booking

Reviews

“Great sailing center in a beautiful location and with amazing instructors and friendly team, I highly recommend!”
Michael Mingueneau
Holiday Sailing
My son and I were total novices and took the RYA Level 1 course over two days at the end of September, coached by Adriana. Little did we know that she was a world level expert in Laser sailing. What we can say is that she was a brilliant teacher. We had two fantastic days out on Harrington Sound, and in spite of a few flip overs, particularly with our gybing when the wind picked up - Adriana made us feel that this was completely normal and gave us great tips to sort it out. A lovely family run business, super friendly, terrific location - I could think of no better place to learn how to sail - can't wait to do the Level 2.
Steve Clarke
RYA Start Sailing Dinghy Level 1
“5 star to U Sail Bermuda. Great place to learn to sail. I’ve received my RYA Dinghy Level 2 certificate. Affordable rates for the weekend Learn to Sail for both Level 1 and Level 2. I am a pure beginner, so I like how they are in Harrington Sound with minimal boat traffic and it’s really just me trying to figure out where the wind is. They are all about safety so- someone is overlooking the water watching with a safety boat ready to go if required when you do boat hire (like I did after I’ve received my Level 2). Looking forward to hiring paddleboards and doing some windsurfing lessons with them. Overall, always received great service. All the instructors are very personable- Naphali, Donavin, Jonny and Thomas- Thank you for letting me achieve one of my bucket list.”
Verde Brown
"Our group of 6 ladies had a fabulous time on an introductory course. Just great fun, learned lots but also had lots of giggles. The U Sail team were fabulous. I’m hooked!"
Anne-Marie Martyn
Ladies Sailing Course
“Had 2 fabulous mornings of WASZP foiling lessons with Aaron, learned a ton and had a fabulous time. I can't say enough great things about U Sail Bermuda, wonderful staff, great service, beautiful location on Harrington Sound, and the boats are in top condition with plenty of spares if things break. I'll be definitely be booking more sessions the next time we're in Bermuda.”
Jeffrey Schwartz
One to One Foiling Holiday
“Great session learning to windsurf so much fun!!! Defo coming back for more!! Great instructor & team!!”
Ryan Lloyd
Windsurf Taster Session
“This is such a fun way to get on the water and sail, just for fun! We had three generations out on the water together, laughing the whole time. Excellent team, and a surprisingly affordable price.”
Jessica Mello
Family Sailing Session

Watersports Week

Overview

Requirements

Details

Itinerary

Equipment

Facilities

Prices

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Reviews

Michael Mingueneau

Steve Clarke

Verde Brown

Anne-Marie Martyn

Jeffrey Schwartz

Ryan Lloyd

Jessica Mello

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