SAILING - FUNBOATS

BEGINNERS 

LETS GET INTO SAILING

FIND LOVE IN SAILING

This is an easy way for your pupils to work in pairs or threes and learn to sail.

The Funboats are a more stable sailing boat with very simple rigging to ensure that all pupils can access and enjoy.  

This can be a dry or wet activity.

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PERFECT BEGINNER ACTIVITY

thumbs up from children in funboat
girl pulling main sheet
girls ready to funboat

HOW DOES THIS ACTIVITY LINK TO OUR CURRICULUM

During our sessions we highlight key areas of the National Curriculum. This benefits students as they can relate skills to real life.

What skills do we teach in Sailing that link to core skills?

MATHS

  • Learn about points of sail through use of angles
  • Tension on sail
  • Weights (Boat balance)
  • Distances travelled
  • Position to sit in the boat, further forwards, backwards

 

SCIENCE

  • Pulleys and the way they work to help reduce the load on the ropes - which part of main sheet do you pull
  • Water resistance
  • Basic understanding of how buoyancy aids work
  • Different hardness of materials, dragging sailing boats will scratch but grass wont etc - microplastics

ENGLISH AND PE

  • New vocabulary learnt including part of boat
  • Ask questions to develop their knowledge
  • Take part in outdoor adventure activities in a team or individually.
  • Swimming and water safety performing safe self rescues in different water based situations
  • Develop balance, agility and coordination and apply in a range of activities

HOW TO BOOK

Get in touch to find out how Grafham Water Centre can help you plan your next adventure.