Racing is an important part
of the HSC Junior Sailing
program, partly
because racing tests all of the boat-
handling
skills a young sailor learns,
and partly because the
competition itself
is a challenging, aesthetic, lifetime sport
we want to pass to the next generation.
The best way to start sailing competitively
is to take the
Sail Instruction courses
offered at HSC.
For your first
regatta, why not
sail right
at
home? The HSC
Junior Regatta in
June will be on
the waters you
already
sail,
and
is convenient for
parents, too.
All juniors who race under the HSC banner are part of the
HSC Junior Sailing Team. We do our best to coordinate
travel plans and equipment needs between our sailors who
venture to other clubs as close as Leatherlips (Dublin), or
as far as Pymatuning Lake (in Pennsylvania).
There are plenty of junior regattas on the Lake Erie shore,
too.
We'll try to point you to some assistance on this site, like the many tuning guides and class
associations for the junior boats on the Sailing Links page.
Once you've got
the racing bug,
you'll want to go
where the action
is - the home
regattas of other
clubs in the area. Check out the dates and
contact info for these on the
I-LYA Traveler Series
page.
Each sailing club in our area gets to send a team of
juniors, ages 13-18, to Put-in-Bay on South Bass Island
(near Port Huron), for a week of 
fantastic racing,
coaching, and fun. "Junior Bay Week" is an event that is
remembered for the rest of your life - just ask some of the
champion sailors who've had this experience.
The racing, in Lasers, Laser Radials, Club 420's, Club
Flying Juniors, and Thistles, is the quarter finals of the
national youth championship series run by the U.S. Sailing
Association.
Our proud parents take plenty of pictures to capture regatta fun. To get a better idea of what its about, you can browse online galleries of recent junior sailing at http://www.sailocra.com/hscjunior/2006Regatta/index.html.
Take the next step - Junior Racing! Check the schedule on the Junior Calendar.
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