Since 1984, the first and leading sailing school designed by women, for women. Customized instruction for couples, families, corporate and social groups; Young Womanship 7th to 12th grade classes. At Womanship®, we bring together women of all ages - 18 to 82, so far - from diverse backgrounds, from every part of the world, in harmonious collaboration and in a conducive learning environment, to take part in a sailing journey of self discovery, self fulfillment and the acquisition of real skills, real strengths, the ability to team and to lead, in harmony with nature.. Join us! Your path from student to take-charge skipper begins with Womanship®. Start now and picture yourself at the helm. |
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PassageMaking |
Student-Centered Learning |
Teamwork | A Couple's or Family's Getaway |
Esprit du Vent |
Fairwinds & Happy Holidays!
On a Voyage of Discovery of New Zealand’s North Island |
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Learn to read the wind, the sky, the water
Learn to check your boat and ready it to sail
Learn to take the helm and drive your boat
Learn to handle, trim, shorten (reef) your sails
Learn to navigate (coastal piloting), plot and pilot your course to each new destination
Learn to dock and maneuver in close quarters
Learn everyday safety, control and to handle the what-ifs of emergencies and rescue
For details, call us at 800-342-9295
Take the helm to Sail Away
living and learning aboard a week, five or three days, while cruising incomparable waters,
each day, plotting and piloting your course to a new destination!
The British Virgin Islands - Paradise in the Caribbean!
Sail/Cruising/Bareboat Prep Courses - October though May
The place to fall in love with sailing... Our most popular destination away from the US mainland since 1985, includes time to snorkel, swim, go ashore to walk sandy beaches, enjoy music by a steel band, nights under star-filled skies.
The Florida Keys - Balmy and beautiful sails among the mangroves
Coastal Cruising/Bareboat Prep & Passagemaking - October through JuneWind shifts around the keys,varying shoal and deep water conditions add to the fun and learning while cruising 7, 5 or 3 days. Prove to yourself that you know what to do and when, why and how to do it to sail and manage a cruising sailboat as partner and skipper.
PassageMaking Around the Keys - Advanced Coastal/Thru-the Night/Offshore
Next Passagemaking courses April 21-27, May 5-11, 2012
Sail and See Adventures Around the World
New Zealand
February 2-11, 13-22, 26-3/6
Imagine sailing the Pacific Ocean on a coastal cruise that ends the day in a crystal clear bay tucked deep inside New Zealand's craggy coast to which you've carefully plotted your day's course. Or you may go ashore on Waiheke, on Coromandel Peninsula, Great Barrier Island's seaside beaches, hillside overlooks, or tiny Port Viceroy--where the storekeeper knows the name of everybody who stops by. If she had not remembered selling "Meeses Pogeell" her ticket back to Auckland on the Island's 5-seater plane Suzanne Pogell, our founder, says "the pilot would not have allowed me to board and I would have had a poor excuse for missing the meeting I had committed to back in the states."
"Visually breathtaking, superb, sometimes demanding, the most glorious sailing I've ever experienced", she says. "Ashore, touring Rotorura, south of Auckland, an exotic mix of British and Polynesian culture and terrain, delicious, non agri-business fruits and vegetables - the berries and carrots alone(!) I'd need to be there at least four months before I'd have enough of sailing just the bays beneath Great Barrier Island's soaring hills."
Call re Sail and See Adventures in the Greek isles, Turkey, Ireland
Stay Happily Afloat as a Couple
on a Learning Getaway
& fall in love with sailing

Annapolis, BVI, Florida Keys, Long Island Sound, Maine
New! New Zealand
for beginning and experienced sailors
Save $250 or more on a 3-day course
Save $400 or more on a 5-day course
Save $500 or more on a 7-day course
Learning Getaway Tuition includes onboard accommodations, food & beverages.
On an Annapolis course, you can choose to purchase provisions with your instructor as part of your learning experience.
Fall in Love with Sailing
on Chesapeake Bay from Annapolis
April 1 - October 31

Become the sailor you want to be - step by practical step - and live your sailing dreams on the nation's largest estuary and its infinite outcroppings of rivers, creeks, coves and harbors famous in our history. Once prepped, you'll return again and again for more.
Annapolis 2-day or 3-day Daytime classes
9-5 each daySail Yourself Safely Home (SYSH) 2-day course
Annapolis or the familiar waters of your yacht club, sailing association, boat yard or marina*Learn, practice & advance safety, control and emergency procedures to sail you and yours safely home every day and under emergency conditions, so you too can say... It was empowering! Now I want to be captain!"
Annapolis LiveAboard Courses
Live and learn aboard for a week, 5 or 3 days using the boat and the sailing environment as your living classroom to become the competent, confident, decision making skipper of your own boat or bareboat charter on Chesapeake Bay.
Special & Advanced Skills Training
Adverse Conditions Sailing and the what-ifs of natural, systems, human failure
Docking, close quarters maneuvering, helming, lines handling
Piloting and Navigation I & II -includes log keeping, reporting of emergencies
Sail handling , sail trim, optimal sailing performance.See Course Calendar for schedule.
Customized Courses
Instruction on Your Own Boat · Staying happily afloat as a Couple or Family ·
Sail Yourself Safely Home 2 or 3-day session + DVD. *See savings aboveA Transforming Day on the Bay
A hands-on taste of all aspects of sailing or to relax while visiting historic Annapolis under sail

The gift of Sailing by Gift Certificate
Make a present of a fun and useful life long skill with a Gift Certificate. You choose the amount; the recipient(s) chooses his or her sail & cruising adventure. We'll send along the Certificate to you.

Gifts from our Boatique:
Brand new Womanship caps! Sailor's top choice Adams' caps in nautical red, dusk, periwinkle, or cactus with the Womanship logo and "nobody yells" embroidered in white. $18.00
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Famous "nobody yells" T-shirt -- periwinkle: logo & lettering in white (S-XXL) Alum T-shirt for alums-only -- deep purple: logo, lettering in teal $17.00.
Womanship Burgee (2 sided, raspberry with white "nobody yells") $25.00
"Sail Yourself Safely Home (SYSH)"Instructional DVD, 1¼ hrs. Filmed during 2-day SYSH hands-on session. See the Womanship Way in action. Plus pre-Print copy of SYSH Step by Step Guide: Holiday Savings: $15.00 + shipping and handling.
On the Horizon for spring and summer 2012
Annapolis season begins April 1 - see above.
Long Island Sound& New England – SYSH, Daytime, Liveaboard, On Your Own Boat resume Memorial weekend.
Schedule of Boat Calls on Your Own Boat along Long Island Sound and New England begins May 20, 2012.
First Advanced Skills/Adverse conditions courses along the coast of Maine - June 23-25, 2012.
First Sail & See the Greek Isles Adventure of 2012 is June 30-July 8.
Questions? Latest Savings?
What are you looking for...? See Course Log (of Course Descriptions) & Curriculum |
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Where do you want to go...? See info on Sailing Center Locations: Annapolis, Md., on Chesapeake Bay; British Virgin Islands; Florida Keys; Long Island Sound from Greenport, N. Y.; & Camden, Maine; the Greek Isles; Ireland; Turkey; New Zealand; Vancouver, BC and the Gulf Islands |
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Womanship books and videos |
Womanship®
137 Conduit Street
Annapolis, MD 21401
1-800-342-9295
Email: sail@womanship.com