Sailing
Hundreds of boys have learned to sail at Pine Island. Great Pond is a large lake, 32 miles around, with islands and bays that invite sailing excursions. The sailing program is designed to accommodate absolute novices, who increase in rank with the staff's guidance. Pine Island has a large and varied fleet of sailboats. It is in one of our two wooden custom built 12 1/2-foot catboats that a novice sailor can learn to handle the main sheet and the tiller before he moves on to one of our four custom built smaller boats. These boats, called Bezumarangs, are small, easy to operate and very forgiving, so they are ideal for intermediate sailors. Once they are comfortable at the helm of a Bezumarang, boys may take on the challenge of skippering one of our two JY-15s. These are high performance fiberglass racing boats and are very fast. Boys can learn racing tactics in Bezumarang races held after dinner or during sailing class.
