Cape Charles Community Sailing
Oyster Farm at Kings Creek, 500 Marina Village Cir, Cape Charles, VA 23310
About
Cape Charles Community Sailing offers youth summer camps, multi-week summer camps, and a tall ship sailing camp that includes time aboard a traditionally rigged 120-foot pilot schooner and, every other year, a 2-masted 40-foot schooner. The program also runs an after school sailing club, Monday night sailing nights, regattas, and a counselor-in-training program. Additional options include adult learn to sail courses, private and group lessons, women on the water sessions, and community events with local organizations.
• Ages: 6–18 years old
• Schedule: Summer camp runs June–August, with additional programs offered from April through October
Cape Charles Community Sailing, also known as Cape Charles Sailing, was founded in 2019 by Hannah Twiddy and Mia Guinan. The sailing school has expanded to help run the Eastern Shore Yacht and Country Club’s sailing program and to host volunteer and counselor-in-training programs. In fall 2025, the Eastern Shore Sailing Team began as an after school sailing club open to those who live on the Shore, and in 2026 the Eastern Shore of Virginia Sailing Foundation was created as a 501(c)(3) to support sailing programs such as this one and others on the Shore.
Hannah Twiddy, owner and director, has a PhD in Physiology and Global Health from Old Dominion University and researches human aging and the benefit of intergenerational activities, including work as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow in Australia and in regions known as Blue Zones. Ethan, a former camper, became the program’s first US Sailing Level 1 Instructor certified camper.
For the past three years, Cape Charles Community Sailing has partnered with Cape Charles Baptist Church to offer seven weeks of free sailing to that church’s community summer camp kids. Cape Charles Yacht Club supports two students each year to attend sailing camp through a scholarship program. When Schooner Virginia is able to sail across the Chesapeake Bay, she offers sailing camp students the chance to learn aboard the 120-foot pilot schooner, and every other year the program partners with Schooner Windsong friends to run a tall ship sailing camp. Continued collaborations with organizations across the Eastern Shore, Hampton Roads, and Northeast North Carolina provide scholarships that support access to sailing programs.
Last updated July 18, 2026.
• Ages: 6–18 years old
• Schedule: Summer camp runs June–August, with additional programs offered from April through October
Cape Charles Community Sailing, also known as Cape Charles Sailing, was founded in 2019 by Hannah Twiddy and Mia Guinan. The sailing school has expanded to help run the Eastern Shore Yacht and Country Club’s sailing program and to host volunteer and counselor-in-training programs. In fall 2025, the Eastern Shore Sailing Team began as an after school sailing club open to those who live on the Shore, and in 2026 the Eastern Shore of Virginia Sailing Foundation was created as a 501(c)(3) to support sailing programs such as this one and others on the Shore.
Hannah Twiddy, owner and director, has a PhD in Physiology and Global Health from Old Dominion University and researches human aging and the benefit of intergenerational activities, including work as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow in Australia and in regions known as Blue Zones. Ethan, a former camper, became the program’s first US Sailing Level 1 Instructor certified camper.
For the past three years, Cape Charles Community Sailing has partnered with Cape Charles Baptist Church to offer seven weeks of free sailing to that church’s community summer camp kids. Cape Charles Yacht Club supports two students each year to attend sailing camp through a scholarship program. When Schooner Virginia is able to sail across the Chesapeake Bay, she offers sailing camp students the chance to learn aboard the 120-foot pilot schooner, and every other year the program partners with Schooner Windsong friends to run a tall ship sailing camp. Continued collaborations with organizations across the Eastern Shore, Hampton Roads, and Northeast North Carolina provide scholarships that support access to sailing programs.
Last updated July 18, 2026.
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