Looking for some adventure over the school holidays? Have your kids join us on a voyage of discovery on our B.O.L.D (Boating Outdoor Leadership Development) during the upcoming school holidays. B.O.L.D is an opportunity for your kids to learn about themselves and leadership through the adventure of sailing.
We aim to provide a fun, safe and hands-on environment where kids can select their own learning objectives. Our learning objectives are broken down into the categories of Plan, Prepare, Sail, Enrich and Lead, and have subsequent levels the kids can progress through.
To do this, we are delivering B.O.L.D as a full-week programme. This creates an opportunity to cater to a variety of levels of sailing experience and leadership skills. This means we will work with the kids as a cohort to plan the week taking into account each other’s objectives and availability. Using this approach, each child is invited to progress at their own pace to give them the tools for a lifetime of adventure or to come back and progress a bit more. A week also gives us the ability to maximise sailing opportunities depending on the weather and plan and prepare for a journey further afield.
To get the most out of B.O.L.D., we invite your child to join us for the full week. But we can cater for part-week participation. If a part week is preferred, we would recommend including Monday as that is goal-setting day and planning for the week.
For those who have completed BOLD Level 1, or those who have beginner/moderate sailing experience, our MERC BOLD Level 2 sailing programme is a great way to continue developing your sailing skills and further your knowledge!
Book for 5 days and receive a discount on the session price, this must be done prior to attendance on the first day and will not be applicable after this. There is an option to book for the full week or to choose however many individual days are required.
This will be run on the same timings as our traditional school holiday programme - activity beginning at 9am and concluding at 4pm with early & late sessions available to book. Standard session drop off after 8.00 am and pick up prior to 4.30 pm. Anything else will be charged for, as either an early 7.30 am - 8.00 am or a late 4.30 pm - 6.00pm
Please bring
Daypack – morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, drink bottle, sun hat, sun block, lip screen
Solid Footwear (sturdy comfortable sand shoes, no jandals) , raincoat, windproof jacket
Warm clothes and spare clothes, warm shirt, long pants, woolen hat, socks, t shirt, (no singlets please), shorts
Swimming togs, towel, plastic bag for dirty and wet clothes MERC provides wetsuits.
We would prefer that mobile phones are not brought on this programme. We are happy for your child(ren) to use our office phone.