Sailing stimulates teamwork, concentration and camaraderie.

During the baptism at sea, the boys and girls will learn how a sailing boat works, the basic notions of sailing leaving from the Olympic Port, they will do a workshop on sailor's knots and learn basic navigation vocabulary.

Every week, throughout the year, you can go sailing around Port Olímpic. You will sail in J/80 sports sailboats (Sport) and cruise ships of more than 11 m (Cruise).

Boats of all kinds.

Groups of up to 100 participants.

Three hours of activities.

Classrooms with electronic whiteboards.

School Activities. Sea Baptism

How does a sailing ship work? What are the most important nautical knots? What are things called in nautical vocabulary?
During your first time at sea you will have the answers to all these questions and you will put them into practice by sailing from the Olympic Port of Barcelona.

From €80 per participant

School Activities. Sea Baptism

Objective of sea baptism

Transmit various cultural, technical and skill aspects. Students will leave with a general idea of the importance of sailing in the development of human cultures and their civilizations. They will also learn about the functioning of a marina.

Development of activities

Depending on the size of the group, it will be divided into subgroups which will carry out, through rotations, the four programmed activities:

“It will be the boys and girls, under the supervision of the instructors, who will take the helm, hoist the sails and ultimately, govern the boat.”
Rodrigo Andrade

The parts of the head are explained, the characteristics that knots should have and they will make a knot chart.

School Activities. Sea Baptism

1^a– Knotting workshop:

Previously, the parts of the head are explained, the characteristics that the knots must have and they will make a picture of knots with the ace of guide, sparrow knot, flat knot and figure of eight knot.

Accompanied by one of our instructors, they will tour the port, seeing its different facilities.

School Activities. Sea Baptism

2^a– Tour of the port:

Explanatory sheets will be distributed and to fill in. Accompanied by one of our instructors, they will tour the port seeing its different facilities (moorings, docks, Captain's Office).

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School Activities. Sea Baptism

3rd- Orientation at sea:

Classroom activity. It will be explained how to navigate at sea, they will be shown a nautical chart and the students will be able to acquire the basic techniques for navigating using the instruments that the ship has on board.

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School Activities. Sea Baptism

4th- Navigation:

The group will head to the docks and will be distributed among the different EscolaPort boats moored in the port to begin their baptism of the sea.

Sailing

Sailing not only requires technical knowledge about trimming sails, but also highlights the teamwork, understanding and resilience of the groups that make up a crew.

Thus, we have realized that using sailing as an activity to improve the cohesion and communication of members of a group of schoolchildren is very effective.

Sailing stimulates teamwork, concentration and camaraderie.

School Activities. Sea Baptism