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2026 Spring Update

The Ice is Melting, Let’s Sail!

Spring is breathing down our necks, which means it’s soon time to trade your snow shovels for tillers at your cottage in the city. Good news: while your wallet is taking a beating everywhere else, we’ve frozen or reduced KSC membership and training costs for 2026. We even added a cheaper $295 Young Adult (18-30) tier, so tell your younger sailing friends!

Better yet, despite keeping things cheap, we bought a brand new RS 16 Catamaran. It’s paws have not even been in the water yet! That makes three of them in the fleet, meaning less time waiting on the beach and more time flying a hull. We own the fleet, you do the sailing—no towing, no launching fees, no hassle.

The New Registration System

We finally bit the bullet and built our own store. Why? Because it saves us a massive amount on credit card processing fees, meaning significantly more money actually stays in the club to buy fun things. It also hooks directly into QuickBooks, which is going to make Gen’s (our purser) life infinitely easier.

Here is how you register this year:

  1. Checkout our Membership Page for details on different categories we offer
  2. Create an account on our site. You will enter all your personal and family details there.
  3. If you own your own boats, you will also add your private fleet details to your account.
  4. Head over to the KSC Shop to buy your 2026 membership and purchase your storage for the year.

Note for families: You can create an account for each adult member and link them to your main account so everyone gets our emails. If they don’t want to make their own account you can stuff their details into your own account. It is critical that all family members are entered into the portal!

Upcoming Events & Socializing

We have a shiny new Events Page and a Public Calendar to keep track of the chaos. Go check it out, and if you have any suggestions or would like to volunteer to help organize, reach out to Serge, our social director.

Launch Day: April 25th

We need all hands on deck to drag the fleet out of hibernation. We work rain or shine, so bring gloves, appropriate workwear, and power tools if you’ve got them. We’ll be flipping Quests and Fevas, assembling Lasers, moving powerboats, and wrestling the dock into the water.

Add Launch Day to your Calendar

Public Open House: May 9th

This is where we put on clean shirts, act perfectly normal, and convince the public to join the club or take an Adult Learn to Sail course (which gets them 50% off their first year of membership). Tell your friends to come check us out!

Add Open House to your Calendar

If the new website process gives you any technical headaches, email me and I’ll sort you out. For general membership or pricing questions, hit up Mike our training director.

See you on the water!

Rigging RS Quests

2026 Training Registrations are Open!

The training program registration is open for the 2026 season! See our sign-up page here:

https://kanatasailingclub.com/sign-up/

Membership registration will open toward the end of Feb.

For 2026 we have the following training programs:

  • Adult Learn to Sail – 4 sessions available May to Aug including weekday evening and full-day classes.
  • Wet Feet Program – 2 sessions available for those little sailors aged size to eight as full-day classes.
  • Junior Learn to Sail – 7 sessions available June to Aug full-day classes.

Like prior years, there will be a 50% discount on single or family memberships when signing up for one of our Adult Learn to Sail courses.

Looking forward to the start of the year, can’t wait to get out on the water!

We’re Hiring for 2026!

2026-03-19 Update: We have filled our positions for the 2026 season. If you are still interested or would be willing to sign up for the 2027 season please reach out to our training director.

Our KSC training director Steve is looking for qualified instructors to join us for the 2026 training season. We have three positions available with different requirements for each:

  1. Head Instructor (one position available)
    • Responsible for our overall sail training programs
  2. Assistant Instructor (one or two positions available)
    • Assists our head instructor to deliver our training programs
  3. Camp Counsellor (one position available)
    • Works with our instructors to make our Junior learn-to-sail programs as fun as possible!

The full job description and requirements are here: Instructors Wanted

And of course contact Steve if you would like to apply.

RS Fevas and trainees

We’re Hiring!

Corinne & Carla, the KSC training directors, are looking for qualified instructors to join us for the 2024 training season. We have three positions available with different requirements for each:

  1. Head Instructor
    • Responsible for planning & delivering our sail training programs for adults, youths, and junior sailors
    • Supervises the other two assistants
    • Part time May-June, full time late June-August, $20-23/hour depending on qualifications
    • Requires
      • Certified CANSail instructor qualifications
      • Previous training experience
      • Membership with Sail Canada
      • Pleasure craft operators card
  2. Assistant Instructor
    • Assists head instructor to deliver our sail training programs
    • Part time May-June, full time late June-August, $19-21/hour depending on qualifications
    • Requires
      • Membership with Sail Canada
      • Pleasure craft operators card
  3. Beach Assistant
    • Manages the flow of junior sailors to/from shore and assisting the sailing instructors with on-shore activities
    • Min age of 13 years, no CANSail qualifications required
    • Part time or full time hours, July-August, $15-17/hour depending on experience

The full job description and requirements are on our website here: Instructors Wanted

And of course contact Corinne & Carla if you would like to apply.