Uczniowski Klub Żeglarski TRAWERS
Uczniowski Klub Żeglarski TRAWERS (UKŻ Trawers) is a student and youth sailing club based in Ostrów Wielkopolski in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The club treats sailing as a way of life and combines sporting training with educational values such as responsibility, teamwork and respect for nature. It offers sailing and powerboat courses, a sailing school for children from the age of six, and a racing group with regular preparation for local and national competitions. The club is a member of the Polish Yachting Association and organises its own regattas as well as away events in southern Greater Poland. The club address is ul. Asnyka 26 in Ostrów Wielkopolski; contact is via biuro@ukztrawers.pl and +48 601 71 50 10.
History
To mark the new millennium and meet demand for sailing among children and young people, a group of parents and teachers founded a sailing club at Primary School No. 9 in Ostrów Wielkopolski. The foundation was the programme “Żagle dla dzieci i młodzieży” (Sails for Children and Youth), which defined the club’s mission and delivery: teaching and promoting racing and cruising sailing, sailing culture and etiquette, race training, camps, inland and sea cruises, and the use of Optimists, windsurfing and other selected boat types. On 28 December 2000 the founding meeting was held and Uczniowski Klub Żeglarski in Ostrów Wielkopolski, based at Primary School No. 9 Jan Paweł II, was established. In 2001 the club was registered with the district office in Ostrów Wielkopolski under number 76; the first general meeting adopted the statutes and elected the first board. On 18 December 2001 the club joined the Kaliski Okręgowy Związek Żeglarski (register No. XVI) and thus the Polski Związek Żeglarski. At the first anniversary celebration in 2002 the club took the name Uczniowski Klub Żeglarski TRAWERS w Ostrowie Wielkopolskim and adopted its burgee and logo. Today UKŻ Trawers runs a sailing school, a racing group and sailing and powerboat licence courses, and marked 25 years with its XXV jubilee.
Information
Facilities
Modern racing equipment and a training fleet for sailing and powerboat courses; club base at ul. Asnyka 26 in Ostrów Wielkopolski.
Activities
Sailing courses for the żeglarz jachtowy licence, powerboat courses for the sternik motorowodny licence, sailing school for children from age 6, racing group, day and holiday camps and sports camps, home and away regattas.
Youth section
Active sailing school for children from age 6 and a racing group for young sailors with year-round training and competition support.
Boating license training
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Theory and practice with experienced instructors