Have you ever dreamt of learning to sail a large keelboat? Or thinking of chartering a sailboat for a vacation in the sun?
Maybe you already have a cruising sailboat and want to upgrade your skills,
or you just want a different kind of vacation this year?
Come learn with us. Our "cruise and learn" courses with professional Sail Canada (CYA) certified instructors provide a safe, enjoyable sailing vacation leading to recognised qualifications in the beautiful 1000 Islands and Prince Edward County regions near Kingston, Ontario - some of the best freshwater sailing areas in the world.
2013 course details
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The Basic course
Even if you have never been on a boat before we will teach you how to handle a cruising boat safely under power and sail in moderate conditions.
The 5-day live -aboard courses exceeds Sail Canada (Canadian Yachting Association) standards. Typically we spend at least 40 hrs practicing skills and the boat is the classroom for the ashore knowledge.. There is ample time to practice and refine your skills and knowledge in a relaxed setting with a student: instructor ratio of 3 or 4:1. We recommend the live aboard basic for those seriously contemplating cruising.
If you want to try out the experience, we also offer 4 day time basic courses where you are back home each night (weekdays and Weekends). we can usually help with accomodation on a boat for out of town clients.
We also offer private courses tailored to your needs.
Thinking of chartering a sailboat for a vacation in Europe? You may need the ICC too.
The Intermediate course
This builds on your basic skills. It is designed for those who want to charter or purchase a keelboat and includes more navigation and boat management aspects as well as improved sailing skills and boat handling/docking. The 5-day live-aboard experience is far superior to competing courses offering 3 day live aboard courses hich allow litle time for coaching.The Advanced course
For the passagemaker, includes continuous day and night sailing and navigation in any weather conditions, man overboard drills at night, docking under sail and other advanced sailing, boat handling and systems management skills. Taught as 6 or 7 day live aboard courses Private courses
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We specialize in private courses customized to your needs and avaiability we can offer multilevel courses and family courses where all can participate. they are available on your boat, our Tanzer 7.5 or CS30 or we can arrange to charter a larger boat. Taught as Live aboard courses or day sailing format (Basic only) to suit your time table.
For groups of four or more this is also an economic alternative to our general courses.
Coastal Navigation
Self study or classroom courses can be arrranged- contact us for more information.
The practical courses start and end in Collins Bay in Kingston on Lake Ontario.
We are proud to be an Ontario Sailing Association/ Sail Canada member school and our lead instructor/owner actively participates in Curriculum and examination development and in Instructor Training as well as in best practice development for sailing schools.
We are included in Schools allowed to offer ICC certification to their students by IYT Worldwide
For all our courses we employ highly experienced professional Sail Canada and IYT Certified instructors
Our instructors and boats are fully insured for teaching all courses.
Our sucessful student completion rate is over 95%. in 2012 we certified over 10% of the Intermediate and Coastal Navigation students province wide , a great achievement for a small school considering there are 34 member schools in Ontario.
See some comments from past students
The International Certificate of Competence
ICC certification is required to operate a boat in most European Countries. The ICC consists of a practical test in a short passage and a theory test. It is strongly recommended that you have alreadt completed Daol Canada Intermediate cruising and Coastal Navigation or have comparable experience. The course can be taken as a weekend standalone course or as an add on to a 6 day Intermediate live aboard course.
Basic and Intermediate Courses in the British Virgin Islands Next WINTER.
Interested in Dinghy sailing lessons in Kingston? Contact Collins bay Yacht Club Sailing School.
Courses are run in co-operation with:
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