I spent a lot of time teaching about 24 miles north of there, there are these concrete pilings that are placed across the lake marking a gas pipeline I think, anyway there is one just outside Mandeville harbor maybe a 1/2 mile out this was the area that we had our classes. two kids per sunfish...
It also has a lot to do with your location that you are teaching in, lakes you can have students head for a set of trees or a house on shore. I taught in Dallas, North Shore of Pontchartrain and Long Island Sound and have used houses, bridges, trees, smokestacks etc. as sailing goals. Having a...
I taught sailing for about 20+ years and the idea of racing being counter productive to learning to sail has some merit. I think it works for juniors that have racing events available a couple of times a month in the season. After basic sailing the move to non-single handed boats mixing kids...