Women In Boating: Training and Seminars - Offshore Sailing School
Training
and Seminars
Offshore
Sailing School
Steve and Doris Colgate's Offshore Sailing School offers the "You Can Sail Escape
Program" for Women Only. Learning to sail is a great way for Mothers and Daughters
to spend time together!
For more information, contact Offshore at 888-454-7017 or visit
www.offshore-sailing.com.
Sailing/Powerboating
Schools
There
are a number of commerically operated power and sail training programs for women:
- Sea Sense-The Women’s Sailing & Powerboating
School, based in St. Petersburg, FL, and operated by two women licensed
captains, programs are offered at a variety of locations in the U.S. and
Caribbean, even barging in France. Courses are day-long to 3-8 day cruises,
all on board. Instruction is also available aboard your own boat, sail
or power.
For more information contact Sea Sense at 800-332-1404 or go to
www.seasenseboating.com.
-
Adventure Cruising and Sailing School, based
in St. Petersburg, FL, operated by an experience woman captain. Sailing
classes and charters in Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, Cape Canaveral, Chesapeake
Bay, Maine, Bahamas, Carbbean. Courses are few hours to 1 - 7days. Course
list includes Introduction
to Sailing, Navigation, Docking, Man Overboard Retreival Methods, Heavy
Weather and Emergency Boat handling, GPS, and Boat Systems/ Under Power.
For
more information contact ACSS at 727-204-8850 or go to www.acss.bz.
- Modern
Sailing Academy, Sausalito, CA Modern
Sailing Academy strives to provide an exceptional learning environment for
women sailors, and we have several programs to get you involved. Our programs
are led by MSA instructor Captain Suzette Smith. A veteran of numerous offshore
and coastal passages, Smith was a member of the historic first all-womens'
America's Cup Team 'America3' in 1995. Women's-only
Basic Keelboat or Basic Coastal Cruising courses will teach you everything
you need to know to begin chartering boats up to 33'. The academy's Women's
Sailing Group meets once a month for informal daysails open to women
of all experience levels, so it's a great chance to get out on the water
and see if sailing is for you.
For
more information call (415) 331-8250 or (800) 995-1668 or go to modernsailing.com/wos.html
- Atlantic Yachting Association, NY, NY A full-service sailing
school in New York City at the 79th Street Boat Basin that offers many women-only
classes and cruises throughout the sailing season.
For more information
call 212-518-4604 Or go to www.Atlanticyachting.org
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