Sailing

Recreational Sailing

The Home of Harvard Sailing

45 Memorial Drive

(617) 495-3434

The Sailing Center is located near the Lower Basin on Memorial Drive and is easily accessible by subway. The Center is located on a barge in the Charles River Basin. Half the sailing center contains changing rooms, rest rooms, and a boat repair shop, while the other half houses the boats. The Center also includes a unique hanging boat storage system that enables solo launchings, a large meeting room, an instruction room, and a fleet maintenance shop.

Please call the facility to confirm the sailing center is open on the day you would like to visit.

Facility Hours:
Fall Hours- thru October 31,2009
Tuesday- Friday 1:00pm-7:00pm (or sunset, whichever comes first)

Fall Semester Membership Fee:
$60.00

Private Instruction:

$50.00/hr.

Instruction is by appointment. Please email Bern Noack at BCNoack@fas.harvard.edu or call (617) 495-3434

Orientations are held every Wednesday at 5:30pm

Swimming Tests

1. Students, Faculty, Staff and affiliates that wish to sail at any point during their affiliation with Harvard must successfully complete a swimming test.

2. The swimming test consists of 100 yards of any stroke except the backstrokes and must show good forward progress (i.e., swimmers are not allowed to stop, hang on the lane lines or touch the bottom) in order to pass.

3. You must be an officer, student or staff with a Harvard ID or be a Harvard Affiliate with a Harvard Athletic Facility pass to take the Harvard Swim test.

4. Tests will be given during regular hours of operation until 15 minutes prior to closing time. (You must show the lifeguard your Harvard ID, prior to taking the test.)

5. Lost Cards will not be replaced.

6. SIGN YOUR SWIM CARD!