Edward Teach Youth Sailing Association

10/17/2025

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08/07/2025

2025 ETYSA Queen Anne’s Revenge Jr Regatta The Queen Anne’s Revenge was the flagship of the pirate Edward Teach, infamously known as “Blackbeard”. The ship was formerly a French privateer that was captured by Blackbeard in 1717. While he sailed her, she carried a complement of 300 pirates an...

06/16/2025

A special shoutout this morning to our Junior Instructor Andrew Connolly and our Junior-Instructor-in-Training Scarlett Hansen for their first place finish at the James Island YC Annual Father’s Day Regatta this past weekend in the C420 class!!

With coaching from Instructor Aiden Hansen the pair performed well in day one in strong breeze and Charleston Harbors notorious currents. A capsize in race two took them out of the lead but they were still able to place third after righting the boat. The boats were called in after two races due to lightning in the area.

Day two saw more moderate breeze and the ETYSA crew sitting in third place overall but tied for second in points. Their capsize on day one must’ve sparked a FIERCE competive fire in them. With on-point starts and super clean spinnaker sets the duo dominated all four races, taking all bullets and securing their first place finish!

The James Island Father’s Day Regatta is the third SAYRA Junior Grand Prix event this year. This win puts Andrew and Scarlett on the board and in an early lead in a series that continues through November.

06/03/2025

05/29/2025

More boat cleaning! Camp will be starting soon, are you registered?!?

05/24/2025

Bringing new meaning to “Chalk Talk!”

05/23/2025

Level 1 Sailing Instructor course is underway at Blackbeard this weekend! We are getting excited about summer. Tonight’s assignment was to find a video of a rolling hitch!

The Rolling HitchVery similar to the clove hitch but with an extra wrap.The rolling hitch is used to attach a rope to another rope, rod, pole.It is commonly...

05/17/2025

Loving how confident my kid is on our “new to us” boat! Thank you, ETYSA for the past few years. Camp is coming up and he’s excited, are you? Registration is open!

05/12/2025

The pavilion is lonely! Summer camp will fix that! Have you registered?

05/11/2025

Campers must be at least 8 yrs old by Oct 1, and be a competent swimmer, in order to attend camp. A swim test will be administered on the first day of camp, and campers who are not deemed to be confident and capable swimmers will not be able to attend the remaining days of camp