Hey

well im only 17 and dont have kids of course but im a sailing instructor for the sailing club in Canberra which is in Austraila. Ok abit about the club, we sail on a small lake which is very hard to sail on and the worst problem is its not really a cat club we only have 8 or so cats racing. The people i work with are great sailors but they only sail mono hulls and since i sail both i preety much run the place. Well we do these kids courses and we have an age limit of 5 and above and well there problem there is we dont think putting kids on boats at that age is safe. So what we do is get an instructor to go out with them and teach them that way. This is only on hobie waves but on day some one crashed on and i couldn't fix it then and then so i took 3 kids on a hobie 16. It was about 17knots and we all know 17 is a fun wind for people who know what they are doing but even though we went out and had fun. I capsized because of a big gust and all the kids went in and they loved it no matter what. 3 would be pushing it but it would be completly fine if it was under 10 knots. I hope this helps. If you want any thing more just email me.

From Julian