Boat Share Club

The COSA Boat Share club currently consists of a Hobie Getaway and an RS Quest

Get Certified. To begin, attend a certification clinic where you will demonstrate competence in rigging, de-rigging, launching, landing, sailing in wind up to 12 knots (24 km/h), capsize drill, and man overboard procedure. Completion of CanSail Levels I & II are recommended. This is not a teaching session (other than a few specific things about the RS Quest) so if you need to sharpen your skills please contact COSA’s sailing school to book group or private lessons: cosa@shaw.ca.

Join the Club. To join the Boat Share Club (“BSC”) you must first be a COSA member. For new COSA members, this requires payment of the one-time initiation fee of $450. Annual COSA dues are $250 for an individual or family. Annual Boat Share Club dues are an additional $250. To ensure that everyone gets plenty of sailing, the number of BSC memberships will be limited.

Go Sailing! The Quest can be sailed daily from April to October, from 8am until dusk, reservable online in 2-hour blocks.

Interested? For more information & to book a certification clinic, contact COSA’s President, Alan Wright, at 250-826-2915 or cosa.news@gmail.com.
 

Things to Know

Reservations: The RS Quest can be reserved for 2-hour blocks using our Google calendar online. After 2 hours return to COSA to see if anyone is waiting to use the boat. If not, you are welcome to sign it out online for another 2-hour block.

Take a Friend: As a BSC member, you are welcome to take a guest sailing with you. You are responsible for the conduct of your guest while on COSA property and while sailing. Further, you are responsible for the safety of your guest, so you must be competent to successfully lead an unskilled sailor through a man overboard or capsize recovery situation. Use good judgment. If your guest is an unskilled sailor, you must be able to manage the boat on your own. As you are also responsible for the boat, you must skipper the boat when launching and returning to shore. Under no circumstances is a guest permitted to take out the BSC boat on their own.