{"id":4819,"date":"2012-11-26T21:05:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T21:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2018-05-11T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:36:15","slug":"rathmullan-sailing-watersports-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/rathmullan-sailing-watersports-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Rathmullan Sailing and Watersports School"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rathmullan Sailing & Watersports School offers classes for children and adults on the beautiful waters of Lough Swilly. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"[caption id=\"attachment_4825\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"600\"]\"Sailing<\/a> Rathmullan Sailing and Watersports School, Co Donegal, Ireland[\/caption]\r\n\r\nw: <\/strong>www.rathmullansailing.com\r\n\r\nf:\u00a0<\/strong>facebook.com\/pages\/Rathmullan-Sailing-Watersports-School\/126185247424893\r\n\r\nRathmullan Sailing and Watersports School<\/strong> - offers classes for children and adults on the beautiful waters of Lough Swilly. The Club runs week-long courses in the summer months with weekend and evening courses throughout the year.\u00a0 The School is fully approved by the Irish Sailing Association (ISA) and maintains rigourous procedures to ensure that equipment is safe and instructors are fully qualified\r\n\r\nThe main aims of the Rathmullan Sailing and Watersports School is to provide people with a fun, safe, and exciting environment for participating in watersports and to make that participation as affordable as possible. The club itself is based beside Rathmullans Pier on the shores of Lough Swilly. The waters of Lough Swilly provide ideal conditions for training in various watersports. The lough is small enough for beginners to feel comfortable getting on the water, and big enough for the more advanced to explore and test their skills.\r\n

Facilities<\/h3>\r\nThe club provides all essential gear for each of the courses that are run. At the moment the clubs fleet consists of 6 Laser Picos, 2 Laser Bahias, 6 sea kayaks, and a 5m Humber RIB that serves as the safety boat. From wetsuits to flotation devices, paddles to helmets, the club provides all the equipment needed to participate in any of the courses. Classroom-based activities operate out of the Rathmullan and District Resource Centre, a stones throw from Rathmullan\u2019s beautiful sandy beach. The Resource Centre also houses the changing rooms and showers used by course participants.\r\n\r\nThe beach itself is probably the most important facility by far. Besides using it to launch and recover boats, it is also used to conduct as much of the shore-based learning as possible, where people can best understand the concepts, theories and techniques being presented. Finally ,the club have a purpose built dinghy park and equipment compound at the pier area in Rathmullan.\r\n

Sailing Courses<\/h3>\r\nA Taste of Sailing<\/strong> ( 3 hours on a Saturday)\r\nAdult Evening Courses<\/strong>\r\n