RQYS SAILING ACADEMY 2022–23 COURSES KEY Offered / attended Cancelled / no attendance Not offered / available COURSE CLASS / CATEGORY XMAS Hols 2022–23 Term 1 2023 EASTER Hols Term 2 2023 JUN/JUL Hols Term 3 2023 SEP Hols Term 4 2023 Participants Learn to Sail Tackers 1–3 195 Sail and Play 60 Dinghy Start Sailing 1 & 2 72 Keelboat Start Crewing & Helming 27 Start Skippering 6 Windsurfing Start Windsurfing 29 Powerboat Handling Powerboat Handling 21 Safety Boat Operator 9 Total all courses 165 17 68 13 51 33 53 19 419 School Sailing (Gumdale) Year 2 - Intro to Tackers 728 Year 3 /4 - Tackers 1 & 2 Year 5 - Tackers 3 Year 6 - Start Sailing 1 Elite - Coaching School Sailing (others) 45 Total all schools 773 Total all Australian Sailing courses above 165 39 68 329 51 234 53 253 1,192 Youth Squad Opti (Green, Intermediate, Open) 425 Green Fleet - Quest Feva Lasers (4.7 & Radial) Flying 11 - Sailors 29er - Sailors Nacra - Sailors Youth Squad casuals Foil Squad (incl. casuals) Green Fleet - Windsurfing a. Discover Sailing Experience Dinghy 33 Keelboat Windsurfing b. Private Coaching Level 2 236 Head Coach c. Sail our Boats Sessions (all) 413 Total a–c above 649 TOTAL ALL PARTICPANTS / SESSIONS 2,299 An Academy Instructor’s journey: Scotty Luxton’s reflections “This year I made selection for the Queensland Academy of Sport as a ‘Pre-Emerging’ athlete, but I first learned to sail at age five in a Sabot with my older brother at Southport Yacht Club. I didn’t enjoy it back then (sailboats scared me) and I preferred the pure feeling of speed you get from accelerating in the coach boat and I stopped sailing when I was about seven. “Throughout school, I tried a lot of other sports – tennis, hockey, basketball – but nothing stuck. When I was 14 my parents signed me up for the RQYS windsurfing course around Easter. “I enjoyed the challenge and the amazing community this sport seemed to have even more. Before long I was sailing faster than I ever had in a coach boat, and the beginning of a life-long obsession for speed, adrenaline and racing began. At the start of 2018 I joined the RQYS ‘Techno293 Windsurfing Youth Squad’ and started racing. “A few months later, most of us joined the Queensland Sailing Team youth program run by Australian Sailing. After completing the eastern Australia regatta circuit, finishing with the Youth Nationals in Tasmania in January 2019, I jumped into the raceboard windsurfing class, competing in the 2020 Nationals, finishing 9th overall and winning the Youth Division. Along with the raceboard class I also started slalom racing, a much faster, less tactical, windsurfing racing style with pure downwind reaching – the fastest racing possible on a windsurfer. In 2020 I tried my hand at boats again, crewing for my younger brother in the 29er class. “Through 2020 a few friends gave me the opportunity to try the latest development in the windsurfing world: hydro-foiling. ”In 2021 RQYS and Windsurfing Queensland brought in the rental foiling gear to the windsurfing centre, and since then I’ve been racing in the new IQ-Foil Olympic Windsurfing class. In 2021 I started working at RQYS as a windsurfing instructor, and in 2022 as a dinghy instructor and as a Coach, coaching the RQYS Foiling Youth Squad until the end of the season. Through 2023 I’ve been working hard to build back up the Techno293 program, coaching the squad that started the journey for me – and all this with an eye on 2032 and the programs to get there!” n Mainsheet 2023 Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron Yearbook 46 Academy insights
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