Summer 2010
Summer Sailing where it's best: Choose the best for you...
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Vancouver, BC & the Gulf Islands
June-September
For beginning & experienced sailors
Summer's best for breathtaking beauty and the joy of sailing the straits of Georgia, Juan de Fuca and Rosario, surrounded by two soaring mountain ranges.
What's best for you that has worked for others?
Living aboard and learning while cruising: anchoring by Islands or stopping at villages on the shore
Learning and advancing in all the skills and tasks to sail and manage both boat and crew
Learning to use tide and current tables to make decisions
Sailing with pods of orcas (whales) in your wake
Anchoring in the glow of late evening sunsets
Exploring flower covered islands, refreshing waterfalls, sighting an occasional deer
Waking to the quiet of a fog bank that slowly lifts to reveal islands around you and the mountain overhead
All that Vancouver has to offer before or after the course
The Coast of Maine
it smells like sailing
From Casco Bay to Booth Bay, Camden and beyond
September 25-29, 2010, June 25-29, 2011
The best training grounds for students eager to meet the challenges of the rugged Maine coast including higher winds, higher seas, a rocky bottom and fog.
Marcy Powell received her Comprehensive Cruising Certificate when she completed the Advanced Skills Adverse Conditions Coastal Maine course in June.
What's best for you?
Gorgeous, challenging sailing along rocky shores with an occasional rock outcropping as well as lobster pots to maneuver
Advanced skills and adverse conditions training in sail handling, anchoring, mooring and docking, the vicissitudes of nature and the what-ifs of mechanical, electrical and human failure
Best said by the distaff side of a couple recently:
"Thanks for ordering the perfect weather for us: wind, no wind, sunshine, rain, and most importantly, FOG!"
And her husband's equally invaluable "$0.02":
"We got to see a significant (and I think representative) part of the Maine coast, through which we'll sail when we go north on our own. That was one of our core needs. I also think there were many aspects that will be useful for most of the New England coast but different from the Chesapeake, like fog and 10-foot tides, and resulting significant currents and hard things on the bottom, all the things we need to start thinking about to sail there."
Re our Instructor: "I would sail with her anytime. Besides clear technical competence...and a great sense of humor, she's very good at 'the sailor in one's head' - our reactions, our crew relations and our limitations."
Sail & See Adventures in the Greek Isles & Turkey
September and October
For beginners and experienced sailors looking forward to living and learning
aboard a cruising sailboat along distant shores
The very best way to explore new sailing horizons and exotic sites ashore
What's best for you?
A once in a lifetime sailing and seeing experience for 9 or 12 days on the highway of the gods, the azure blue Aegean
of the Greek Isles
Or choose the Mediterranean from Marmaris on the coast of Turkey
Begin your adventure in Athens or the old city of Istanbul, touring gems of classical and Byzantine history led by professional guides.
Cruise and learn, dock Mediterranean style in the harbor of picturesque towns before going ashore in the evening to partake of the food, culture and fun.
Long Island Sound & New England
Where sailing and the sea are synonymous
May-September
for beginning and experienced sailors
What's best for you?
Liveaboard and Daytime-only courses listed on our Course Calendar, or Courses customized to you and yours on your boat or ours
Easy access from the north and south shores of the Sound and all of New England, to Greenport, New York, a maritime village on the far eastern end of the Island, for both Sound and blue water sailing to inviting Block Island, Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod, Sag Harbor, Shelter Island and more.
The Ferry that crosses the sound in 45 minutes from New London, Ct., to Orient Pt.; bus service from New York City and parking at our marina. provide easy access to our marina, where parking is available.
Staying Happily Afloat with your mate,
friends or family
on Your Own Boat
May-September
for beginning and experienced sailors
The best boat calls:
On Long Island Sound (May-October), Chesapeake Bay from our homeport of Annapolis (April-October),
the British Virgin Islands (October-May),
Florida Keys (October-June)
What's best for you?
Learning on your own boat when...
Learning on your own boat when...
You want to become more skillful, comfortable and confident at handling and docking, checking and understanding your boat systems, navigating, reporting problems, safety and control procedures
You've bought a boat and want help in sailing it home, understanding its idiosyncrasies, improving your ability to sail and manage it
You want to build your own competent and cohesive crew
You want to progress from beginning or day sailing to sleeping on board, cruising, learning to anchor, heave -to plot and pilot your course, plan your trips, keep a log etc., etc.
We learned what was best for a student and approaching 'nirvana' for her husband (as she described it) came in an early AM call from her husband on the third day of her On Your Own Boat Course that he and two of her friends' husbands had given to their wives as gifts last December. He told us that for the very first time in all the years they had been sailing together, his wife leaned across the breakfast table that morning and said, "Tell me Charlie, why do you adjust the mainsail with the traveler instead of the sheet?" At that, he said he started smiling and didn't think he was going to stop for a long time.
"We have 3 little kids and just want to be very competent cruisers," was a recent couple's reason for enrolling in a 4-day cruising course on their recently acquired 38' boat. Afterward they said the course exceeded their expectations and that they liked best "the fun, practical knowledge we gained that was tailored to our needs" and "exactly what we asked for."
Annapolis on Chesapeake Bay
April Through October
Our homeport, the nation's largest estuary (295 miles long)
and the favorite of cruising and racing
sailors all over the world
What's best for you?
A long sailing season, easily accessed from Maine to Florida and across the US and abroad
LiveAboard & Daytime-only coastal sail/cruising courses
Through-the-Night and Offshore Passagemaking
Sail Yourself Safely Home Clinics for self-named chickens of the sea
Specific Skills Training Courses, Tastes of Sailing, Transforming Days on the Bay
Light and lovely, sometimes challenging sailing conditions, ideal for every kind of sailing, prep and practice
Harking back to colonial days, the Capital city of Annapolis is living history at its best and a joy to wander
Sail Yourself Safely Home Clinics
from Annapolis
or in the familiar waters of your yacht club,
sailing association, boat yard or marina
What's best for you?
To be able to sail you and yours safely home if suddenly it were up to you to take charge
Learning and practicing, hands-on, 17 safety, control & emergency procedures to sail well and safely every day and in an emergency
Being able to say...
"Now I want to be captain! It was empowering!"
"In my wildest dreams, I never imagined I could dock a boat!"
"I didn't believe that helping myself by helping others would work, but it does and I am now, after all this time, eager to do more."
The Curriculum
Moving and staying safely on board and using safety equipment safely
Controlling the boat from the helm
Docking, close quarters maneuvering, stopping the boat
Basic coastal piloting
Reefing (reducing sail)
Identifying problems & calling for help
Overboard procedures & practice under power & sail: we will not ask you to go in the water.
Specific Skills Training
from Annapolis
Docking! Docking! Docking
Training coming up August 7&8, 28&29, September 8&9
What's best for you?
Training the Womanship Way to be best at docking
Learning to dock, maneuver in close quarters, drive from the helm
Learning to pay out and handle lines at the fuel dock and on a daily basis on our boat or yours
Learning a check list of elements to keep in mind when docking
Questions? Contact Us
Call us at 410-257, from Annapolis, 800-342-9295 from everywhere else.
