Sailing with Camp Orkila
San Juan Saling
This program is a great introduction to sailing. Campers learn how to set up, maneuver and care for Camp Orkila's Soling or J-24 sailboats on a 6-day expedition throughout the San Juan Islands.
Objectives
• Provide teens with a safe outdoor experience.
• Challenge teens in new ways, while being in a safe and supportive
environment.
• Be a part of a close-knit group and learn successful techniques to operate in a
group.
• Learn new peer-to-peer leadership styles and practice leading a group of peers.
• Learn and practice practical skills such as cooking on a camp stove, setting up
camp, making a fire, traveling in a group and the technical skills of sailing.
Program Details
• Campers stay in open-air cabins in at Camp Orkila one to two nights at the start of their program and one to two nights at the end of their program.
• When groups are in the field they stay in organized city, state, federal or private campgrounds. Groups sleep under tarps, which they set up. Tarps are single sex.
• Campers must perform a swim check prior to departing camp.
• Sailing will take place within the San Juan Islands.
• Campers will sail four to a boat with at least 1 instructor.
• Sail 1 - 5 hours daily.
• Safety protocol requires staff to contact camp via radio or cellphone at least two times a day.
Sample Itinerary
Day 1: Arrive at Camp Orkila, swim check
Day 2: Travel to Satellite Island on the Kwahnice. Camp at Satellite
Day 3: Instruction and sailing near Satellite Island. Camp at Satellite
Day 4: Day sail and Camp at Satellite
Day 5: Sail to Sucia Island
Day 6: Sail to Satellite Island
Day 7: Return to Camp Orkila on the Kwahnice
Day 8: Closing and return home
Mariners
Mariners is a two-week program designed to expand participants skills and knowledge of sailing and develop their experience as peer leaders. Mariners sail Orkila's J24s around the San Juan Islands
Sample Itinerary
Day 1: Arrive at Camp Orkila, swim check
Day 2: Travel to Satellite Island on the Kwahnice. Camp at Satellite
Day 3: Instruction and sailing near Satellite Island. Camp at Satellite
Day 4: Day sail and Camp at Satellite
Day 5: Sail to Sucia Island
Day 6: Sail to Satellite Island
Day 7: Return to Camp Orkila on the Kwahnice
Day 8: Closing and return home
Mariners
Mariners is a two-week program designed to expand participants skills and knowledge of sailing and develop their experience as peer leaders. Mariners sail Orkila's J24s around the San Juan Islands
Objectives
• Provide teens with a safe outdoor experience.
• Challenge teens in new ways, while being in a safe and supportive
environment.
• Be a part of a close-knit group and learn successful techniques to operate in a
group.
• Learn new peer-to-peer leadership styles and practice leading a group of peers.
• Learn and practice practical skills such as cooking on a camp stove, setting up
camp, making a fire, traveling in a group and the technical skills of sailing.
Program Details
• Campers stay in open-air cabins in at Camp Orkila one to two nights at the start of their program and one to two nights at the end of their program.
• When groups are in the field they stay in organized city, state, federal or private campgrounds. Groups sleep under tarps, which they set up. Tarps are single sex.
• Campers must perform a swim check prior to departing camp.
• Sailing will take place within the San Juan Islands.
• Campers will sail four to a boat with at least 1 instructor.
• Sail 1 - 5 hours daily.
• Safety protocol requires staff to contact camp via radio or cellphone at least two times a day.
Sample Itinerary
Day 1: Arrive at Camp Orkila, swim check
Day 2: Travel on the Kwahnice to Satellite Island
Day 3: Sail to Jones Island
Day 4: Sail to Lopez Island
Day 5: Sail to Cypress Island
Day 6: Rest day and service project on Cypress (resupply)
Day 7: Sail to Clark Island
Day 8: Sail to Matia Island
Day 9: Sail to Sucia
Day 10: Sail to Patos Island
Day 11: Day-sail around Patos Island
Day 12: Sail to Reid Harbor
Day 13: Sail to Satellite Island for trip celebration
Day 14: Return to Camp Orkila on the Kwahnice
Day 15: Closing and return home
Sample Itinerary
Day 1: Arrive at Camp Orkila, swim check
Day 2: Travel on the Kwahnice to Satellite Island
Day 3: Sail to Jones Island
Day 4: Sail to Lopez Island
Day 5: Sail to Cypress Island
Day 6: Rest day and service project on Cypress (resupply)
Day 7: Sail to Clark Island
Day 8: Sail to Matia Island
Day 9: Sail to Sucia
Day 10: Sail to Patos Island
Day 11: Day-sail around Patos Island
Day 12: Sail to Reid Harbor
Day 13: Sail to Satellite Island for trip celebration
Day 14: Return to Camp Orkila on the Kwahnice
Day 15: Closing and return home
Voices
from sailing trips
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On
this trip I have especially learned about myself… I have learned that hard work
makes the resting times 100% better and when working in a group, doing
everything you can to help out make everything better.
I have learned to be more outgoing, to step out of my comfort zone to meet new people and to be less judgmental.
I now have more confidence, Frisbee throws, sailing knowledge and new ways to look at the world.
I now have more confidence, am more outgoing towards strangers and have a new love for the outdoors.
I now have a sense of closeness with everyone in my group, new sailing skills from two weeks on the water and friends that I hope to know for a long time.
I have learned that working as a team to do something with compotent people is a lot easier than doing it by yourself.
I have learned to be more outgoing, to step out of my comfort zone to meet new people and to be less judgmental.
I now have more confidence, Frisbee throws, sailing knowledge and new ways to look at the world.
I now have more confidence, am more outgoing towards strangers and have a new love for the outdoors.
I now have a sense of closeness with everyone in my group, new sailing skills from two weeks on the water and friends that I hope to know for a long time.
I have learned that working as a team to do something with compotent people is a lot easier than doing it by yourself.