The Family Holiday
Minorca Sailing is ideal for all the family, with every member participating in the day’s activity as much or as little as they wish. For all children four years upwards, our daily programme offers sailing and windsurfing to suit all levels. Our children’s instructors are experts at keeping all of our young guests happy, leaving you free to enjoy your holiday while they enjoy theirs.
Safety First
For easy and speedy communications, our RYA qualified instructors are linked by radio with the safety boat drivers and the shore. You can be sure that we will look after your children at all times when they are out on the water.
Children's Groups
To ensure your children have the very best holiday possible, we divide the groups by age, encouraging new skills and friendships to quickly develop.
Pirates
4 to 5 years
The Pirates group and their exciting, enthusiastic team can frequently be heard sailing around the bay. Our carefully selected sailing instructors encourage ‘safe fun on the water’, and make the most of the short concentration spans of very young children by varying the activities throughout the day.
They may be sailing an RS Tera with a friend, crewing a Fusion or trapezing on an RS Venture. The days are always different and fun, and activities are aimed at introducing and improving sailing skills and confidence on the water. The Pirates programme includes expeditions to beaches and islands around the bay, treasure hunts, exploring, beach games and beach Olympics with all the other children, and even a Mini-Regatta!
The groups are small and well supervised with a high ratio of instructors to children, making it easy to learn new skills and quickly make new friends.
Explorers
6 to 7 years
The Explorers are always on the go! Every day we vary the activities to provide a fun and informative experience, concentrating on developing confidence and new sailing skills in a safe environment.
The Explorers enjoy activities such as sailing in RS Teras, crewing and trapezing in a RS Venture, and learning to windsurf on one of our Fanatic Rippers. Our enthusiastic instructors encourage the group to become expert explorers whilst on holiday. During bay orienteering and destination sails they discover such places as Lizard Island, Castle Bay and Cactus Island.
The Explorers join all the other children for beach games and beach Olympics and the end of week Mini-Regatta.
The friendly Explorers group has a high ratio of caring instructors to children.
Junior Sailing
8 to 9 years
With our structured sessions and games on the water it is easy to learn and improve sailing and windsurfing skills.
If you choose to sail, you may be sailing one of our popular RS Teras with a Sport Sail, or crewing an RS Venture. If you prefer to windsurf our junior boards and rigs are perfect for this. Whether you're sailing or windsurfing the days will always be educational and fun with safety our first thought.
Our energetic RYA instructors help to create a lively and fun atmosphere within the group. Every day will be different and will include new and exciting activities such as destination sails to beaches and islands, team games on the water, and racing.
Additional tuition can be arranged after the normal day's programme. This is the perfect opportunity to try your hand at windsurfing or trapezing on one of our many asymmetric boats.
Young Sailors
10 to 12 years
You might be new to sailing or you might already be an experienced sailor. In either case, on the water is a great place to spend your holiday! Our caring instructors will encourage your confidence, nurture your abilities, and ensure a lively and fun time for all.
Our younger sailors enjoy both sailing and windsurfing.
Novices will learn to sail in our RS Teras. Youngsters with some sailing experience will also enjoy helming the RS Tera sailed with a 3.7m² Dacron Sport Sail. The RS Tera can be converted into a challenging and demanding race boat with the 4.8m² fully battened Mylar Pro Sail. A further progression is to sail the challenging and dynamic 4.7 Lasers. The exhilarating two person asymmetric RS Fevas are also sailed by our competent youngsters. There is the opportunity to race every afternoon.
Beginner windsurfers start off on one of our junior boards and rigs. For proficient windsurfers we will help you improve your technique and master skills such as using the harness and footstraps, planing, fast tacking, gybing and freestyle.
Teenagers
13 years +
It’s great to sail and windsurf! With our regular theory sessions, followed by on the water practice, it won’t be long before you’re racing all over the bay on the boat or board of your choice.
Beginners will find it doesn't take long to learn the basics in the warm Mediterranean, while more experienced and capable sailors and windsurfers will find our extensive fleets and equipment, exhilarating, challenging and above all, fun!
We have an abundance of Fusions, Lasers and asymmetrics including RS Fevas, 29ers, Laser 2000s, RS 100s, RS 200s, RS 400s and RS 500s for you to sail and race. You’ll also find a multitude of the latest windsurf boards, rigs and harnesses to choose from, to suit all abilities and wind strengths.
You can try your hand on one of our high performance craft and we can arrange for an instructor to accompany you on an asymmetric such as the 29er or RS 800. You can also try one of our radical single handers, such as the RS Vareo, RS 100, or the Musto Skiff.
A variety of activities are included in the day’s sailing programme, such as destination sails and on the water games, allowing for a great team spirit to develop within the group. The group coordinator will oversee all activities and organise and provide safety cover for all our groups on the water. For keen racers there is training along with a daily race series. There is also the end of week regatta.
Our lively RYA instructors organise and participate in evening activities with you. These include video coaching, beach volleyball, and pizza nights.
