The club explicitly says no previous experience is required for families with children aged 15 or under, and its Ducklings Fleet is for new sailors learning the basics with no previous sailing experience required.
Training
Salterns runs junior training pathways including Ducklings, Moppy Camp, Bronze Fleet and Tera Training. Twice a year it becomes an official RYA Training Centre for Moppy Camp, where children can work toward Salterns Pennants and RYA youth dinghy stages.
Salterns Sailing Club is a youth-focused inland dinghy club at Eight Acre Pond in Lymington, teaching children to sail and race in a sheltered pond environment.
No current official source found that clearly advertises taster sessions, open days, or try-sailing sessions for non-members. The events page lists no current events, and membership applications are via a waiting-list form.
Salterns is a children-focused sailing club. Families with children aged 15 or under can apply if space is available, parents must remain on site, and children over age 6 are normally invited to formal Moppy Camp training subject to availability.
Access· Unclear
The official club rules allow registered assistance dogs, but no current official source found with broader accessibility or access-needs information such as step-free access, accessible changing, or adaptive sailing support.
Costs
Costs, membership, and boats
Prices
The membership page lists the 2025 Joining Fee as GBP 60 and the 2025 Full Family Membership Fee as GBP 185 per year. No separate current course, taster, guest, or boat-use prices were found on official pages.
Official site describes Salterns as Lymington's sailing club for children, run by children. Families with a child aged 15 and under can join if there is space, and no previous sailing experience is required.
Full members have access to club facilities between the beginning of April and the end of November, including use of club boats depending on sailing experience. Facilities information says club boats are stored in locked kennels, and Moppy Camp notes Yellow, Orange and Red Pennants are taken in club training Optimists.
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