The Best Sailing Club on English Bay! 2021
Learn to sail or improve your sailing skills, have a blast and meet new people.
Ready to join now registration can all be done online. You can choose to pay by eTransfer, cheque or credit card. This year we are encouraging new members to pay by eTransfer but if its easier for you, feel free to pay by cheque or credit card. Afterwards, wait for further instructions from the membership officer.
Here is the membership fee structure.
Note that the JSCA membership fees are NOT included in your Viking membership payment. Once you renew your Viking membership, please visit the JSCA office to pay the JSCA membership fee, sign their waiver, and update your membership card.
eTransfer (preferred option):
- Submit this online form if paying by eTransfer (note the total amount owing on completing the submittal form).
- Send an Interac eTransfer to treasurer@vikingsailingclub.bc.ca
- Use the security question you’ll receive by email upon form submission
- Type ‘Membership’ in the ‘Message’ text field
pay by cheque (second preferred option):
- Submit this online form: to pay by cheque (note the total amount owing on completing the submittal form)
- Make cheques payable to the “Viking Sailing Club”
- Send to Cliff Fraser, 3210 Ingleside Court, Burnaby, V5A 4J6
credit card: submit this online form to pay by credit card
Upon receiving your submission form and payment we will contact you soon afterwards with important information as to the next steps.
For renewing members: go to the Members Area and sign in or if you forgot your password email membership@vikingsailingclub.bc.ca
The Viking Sailing Club is in Vancouver at Jericho at 1300 Discovery street. We are a cooperative style club providing training and sailing opportunities to our members. There are no additional training fees.
For more information on training contact our training officer and vice commodore Hope Morris <vice-commodore@vikingsailingclub.bc.ca>
2021 Season Training Schedule
The Training Schedule will be announced in late February. The 3 classroom sessions will be take place online in early April.
After the classroom sessions are completed, Rigging of our training dinghy and on the water training, will be done with a senior sailor that will be assigned to you.
Keel boat sailing and cruising
There is no better way to start keel boat sailing than to start as a crew on our new 34-foot Bavaria cruise boat. sail our cruise boat Btw everyone starts as a crew member. We have fun cruises throughout the spring/summer. As a member you have access to chartering our cruise boat accompanied by one of our many skippers and 2ic (second-in-charge) for about a third of commercial chartering rates.
Have a safe and wonderful 2021 sailing year!
membership officer
membership@vikingsailingclub.bc.ca
Membership Benefits
Membership benefits include:
- Free use of our entire beach fleet, with appropriate sailor training
- Highly discounted rates to use the club cruise boat TYRA
- Great club events
- BBQs by the beach
- Sailpast
- Racing
- May Cruise
- Christmas Party
- JSCA membership is included in Viking membership dues
- Discounts at The Galley Patio & Grill
- Hot showers and private change rooms
- Boat rescue if ever needed whilst sailing on English Bay
- The opportunity to make new friends
Contact
If you have any questions please feel free to contact our membership officer. If you like you can also arrange a meeting at our club room at the Jericho Sailing Centre (view our club room location) to check out our boats and the club room for yourself.
membership@vikingsailingclub.bc.ca
Our credit card processor is Stripe and we do not collect or store your credit card information ourselves. When you complete the submittal form, JSCA will be sent an email letting them know you are a member and you can stop by the office any time to pick up your sticker.