Your Community
Sailing Center
Youth Sailing Virginia (YSV) is an accredited US Sailing Community Sailing Center on Mill Creek at historic Fort Monroe. We teach life skills to young people and their families through sailing.
Handing a kid the tiller looks like teaching them to operate a boat. It is really handing them a decision, in conditions that change by the minute, with someone else in the boat depending on the call. What they carry back up the dock is the point: confidence, independence, and the knowledge that they can be trusted with something that matters.
We offer summer camps and learn-to-sail classes for ages 8 to adult, learn-to-swim to learn-to-sail courses, a home port for high school racing across Hampton Roads, and community partnerships that welcome kids who would never otherwise set foot on a sailboat. No experience needed, no boat required, and no child turned away for inability to pay.
All instruction by US Sailing certified instructors. A REACH STEM Education Center.
You do not have to grow up around boats to find your place on the water.
We work diligently to design sailing programs with four goals in mind.
- Build diversity into our programs so that our programs reflect our community
- Maximize access to sailing programs for youth from all socioeconomic backgrounds
- Incorporate applied science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) into our training curriculum
- Teach youth skills that will benefit them throughout their life, such as leadership, independence, concentration, self-reliance, decision making, and teamwork