loch earn sailing club
As a family club, our philosophy is to make sailing available to all. Racing
will be competitive and fun, providing entertainment and challenge across the
field. Our racing credentials are well established and LESC is a highly sought
after venue on the Traveller circuit with an excellent reputation for race
management and organisation. And for those new to sailing, LESC has been an RYA
Training Centre since and offers both adult and junior RYA dinghy, keelboat, and
powerboat courses. Sailing is open to anyone, no matter what age or ability. You
don't need to be able-bodied, or even a strong swimmer. Our sailability section
seeks to raise awareness in the disability community of the tremendous benefits
that sailing can provide and aims to help people with a disability get on the
water at Loch Earn. We also use the IOCA class association Optimist or Oppy, the
children's sailing dinghy, to support our youngest juniors in sessions on
various Sunday mornings during the summer months to provide a more informal and
practical introduction to sailing and racing in particular. Older children move
on to the Topper dinghy. It's difficult to provide an age-based guidelines for
these groups: with attitude and water-confidence the main attributes needed to
enjoy dinghy sailing; some are ready to start as young as five, others will
enjoy the fishing, swimming, camping, and all the other benefits of our family
club!
