2026 Junior Dinghy Fast Track

Is this your summer to learn to sail well? To get your Junior certification? If, so a week of Fast Track lessons may be just the solution.

Fast Track Sailing Courses are week-long intensive sessions designed to teach you the skills required for a dinghy Junior rating. As in other sports, intensive instruction will improve your skills rapidly. You'll be on the water with one other student and an instructor from 5-8pm Monday through Friday evenings. But Fast Track is so much more than just learning sailing skills. When you come off the water, you'll have big community dinner and a debrief with your instructor and other instructors, connect with the other students, and meet a lot of the members that make Cal Sailing a special place to be.

Again this year we will have a special women/trans/non-binary week, July 27 - 31. The program is the same as all the other weeks but it features women/trans/non-binary individuals learning from women/trans/non-binary individuals. For women/trans/non-binary students who learn best in a more diverse and inclusive environment, this might be the right week for you.

Unsure whether its right for you? Read a blog post about the experience from a past Fast Track student.

Signups open 6 weeks before each session starts.

Fast Track is for CSC members only. Become a member to sign up.

Four steps to join Fast Track

While signing up is usually the first step, students are accepted based on prerequisite completion date not signup date, so get your prerequisites done as soon as possible. There are only 16 students per week so the first 16 to complete the prerequisites will be accepted.

1. Signup. See links below
2. Pass your Junior written exam
3. Pass the rigging test
4. Get comfortable on the water with a few lessons. Practice tacks and gybes, either from lessons, sailing with a friend, or from prior experience counts too. Typically taking 3 or 4 lessons provides this.

Fast Track Sessions

Click on session name to go see session details, signup, or volunteer.

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