A sailing club on the Ihutai estuary at Scott Park, Mount Pleasant, which runs a nine-day adult learn-to-sail course, mostly on lasers. Mount Pleasant Yacht Club is on Main Road, Mount Pleasant, Christchurch, at Scott Park. The clubhouse is just over the Ferrymead Bridge towards Sumner. The website describes an active fleet of Lasers, Sunbursts, Optimists and P class dinghies, and club racing most weekends from September to April. There is a Learn to Sail programme for juniors and adults, and a coaching programme for advanced sailors. The club has completed a new boat shed, and says it is the easiest club in Canterbury for launching and retrieving boats, with plenty of ramps and wide shallows.
The adult course has two days of group instruction on a six-metre trailer yacht, a theory lesson on a low tide day, which must be attended, and then six days of lessons on Lasers. The course fee is $500 this season as at 2026, and includes one year's club membership. Courses depend on the weather and on boats and instructors being available, and the Officer of the Day and instructor decide whether to sail. Hot showers and free tea and coffee are provided after sessions. Reviewers say the members are welcoming, and one has stayed on since taking the adult classes four years ago. Views of the water and the sailing lessons come up most often.