The 2025-26 winter season is here
Sail HYSTS is offering young sailors the opportunity to improve their Sailing Background Knowledge with Saturday morning land based training sessions. Each of the RYA Youth Sailing Scheme, Stages 1 to 4, include learning skills that can be taught without being on the water. These skills will help the young sailors improve their sailing technique as they apply this knowledge next summer when Sail HYSTS starts sailing sessions again. The aim of the training sessions is to “tick off” the Sailing Background Knowledge clauses in their log books to help them achieve their next stage certificate.
The first training session in this winter season will be at 10am on 6th December at the Sail HYSTS sailing centre. Sail HYSTS plans to run three more training sessions before the start of the 2026 sailing season, two in total before Christmas and two in the New Year. Each training session is free, will take place on a Saturday morning and last no more than 90 minutes. Sail HYSTS will provide warm drinks and snacks for the young sailors who will be fully insured with the same safeguarding principles applied just as if they were out on the water.
To book a place on the first Sailing Background Knowledge training session you can either email or complete the booking form. All the young sailors must be members of Sail HYSTS, a membership form which can be returned on line following the links on that page. Sail HYSTS will acknowledge the booking. To make the training viable there will need to be three or more young sailors signed up for the session.
We look forward to welcoming young sailors to these training sessions in a few weeks time.
Copyright: (c) 2025, RYA
A tri fold leaflet summarises Sail HYSTS’s activities for young sailors, more detailed information is available on subsequent pages.
As we have now launched Sail HYSTS as a new charity we are asking all our sailors to complete a new membership form which can be downloaded, completed and returned to us on our Membership Form page.
A Sail HYSTS sailing session
Copyright: (c) 2025, Elena Oderstone
Peter Bee – Memories from those who knew him
Owen Davies, President, Geoff Lynch, Chairman and friends have written about their memories of Peter Bee and the contribution he made to HYSTS. You can read their thoughts on the About Us page.
You can help with the running costs of HYSTS
Even if we don’t sail it still costs over £5,000 a year to run Sail HYSTS; over half our costs are insurance. All this money we have to raise ourselves. In April, to help raise funds, we signed up to be part of the Havant Borough Community Lottery. A ticket for the Havant Borough Community Lottery costs £1 per week and 50p goes directly to good causes! If you sign up to support Sail HYSTS we get 50p of that £1.
Question: If Sail HYSTS gets 50p per entry, where does the other 50p go?
Answer: 10p is used to support other good causes within Havant Borough, 20p goes to prizes and the remaining 20p is for administration of the lottery and VAT. ….More
