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Our Sailing School offers live aboard courses
in the Caribbean Virgin Islands and Maine.
The instructional mission of our sailing school
is to teach offshore ocean sailing and ocean navigation in a liveaboard setting.
Your classroom and is
a modern, well founded, romantic, beautiful, fast, and very sea kindly
sailing vessel. SAMANA, a 52' steel offshore sailing ketch, is 63'
LOA, has a 16' beam, draws 7', carries 1800 square feet of sail set
between two masts, and displaces 34 tons. Built in 1975 in
Holland, SAMANA has circumnavigated the globe and has completed several
noteworthy offshore passages.
Captain Larry Wheeler and Letty Wheeler, your sailing school instructors,
are professional teachers with more than 25 years of classroom teaching
experience and over 25 years of experience in sail training. Larry is a United States Coast Guard Licensed Merchant Marine Officer (USCG). The School of Ocean Sailing is a member of the
American Sail Training Association (ASTA).
The School of Ocean Sailing operates winters in the Caribbean Virgin Islands and your class starts in Saint Thomas , USVI. You will be sail sailing the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea surrounding the USVI and BVI. During the summers the sailing school operates in the North
Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine.
The curriculum
is a rich blend of technical skill, confidence building, and common
sense coupled with a spirit of adventure and romance. Instruction
centers on the principal objectives underlying the knowledge of ocean
sailing, coastal navigation, or celestial navigation. To this end
Larry and Letty have dedicated their sailing school, sailing vessel,
equipment, sailing routes, and energy.
The School of Ocean Sailing is able to accommodate beginners
just learning to sail a large ocean vessel, to students interested
in advanced ocean navigation or celestial navigation.
In our sailing school we offer seven day
live aboard courses. You stay aboard the vessel for the full duration of the course!
It's been 9 years since I took the one week sailing class out of Portland. I've never forgotten the experience, and have also never forgotten the lessons. Everyone exclaims what a good captain I am, but I know it's partly because of your teaching. Combining the lessons with first-hand experience of the problems of coastal navigation and boat handling is one great teaching technique!
Thanks again for all you do! - Dwight S - East Boothbay, ME
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