{"id":41976,"date":"2016-11-21T21:35:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T02:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/?p=41976"},"modified":"2023-05-06T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T21:21:09","slug":"offshore-sailing-school-introduces-new-women-only-sailing-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/offshore-sailing-school-introduces-new-women-only-sailing-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Sailing School Introduces New Women-Only Sailing Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Offshore Sailing School’s new women only sailing week’s will take beginner sailors through the steps to becoming competent and confident behind the helm of big boats.<\/span>\n Offshore Sailing School<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n

Offshore Sailing School has announced two women-only sailing weeks next April and\nMay to take women from novice or little sailing experience to competent sailors capable of handling large cruising boats\nup to 54\u2019. Taught by expert U.S. Sailing-certified instructors, the women-only program mirrors the school\u2019s popular Fast\nTrack to Cruising\u00ae course \u2013 an eight day program that results in gaining three levels of US Sailing certification.\nTaught by US Sailing-certified women instructors at the bareboat cruising level, these special weeks are \u201cdesigned to\nfulfill the three C\u2019s of sailing,\u201d says Offshore Sailing\u2019s President and CEO, Doris Colgate. \u201cThose three C\u2019s are Confidence \u2013\nin yourself, the boat and those with whom you sail; Comfort \u2013 with all the factors that go into feeling at home when you\nsail; and Control \u2013 of your sailing destiny, where you go, how you go and when you go.\u201d But Colgate says there is a\nfourth C that has to be achieved before all the others kick in, \u201cand that is Competence \u2013 which is the focus of all that we\ndo at Offshore Sailing School.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Colgate should know. She started sailing at age 27 when she took a Learn to Sail course at Offshore Sailing School, and\nthen fell in love with (and married) the school\u2019s owner, Steve Colgate, \u201cand the school,\u201d she says. She has been\nadvocating for women to learn how to successfully and competently handle sailboats of all sizes ever since. In 1990 she\nfounded the National Women\u2019s Sailing Association, and two years later the not-for-profit Women\u2019s Sailing Foundation. \u201cI\nwant women to be able to see the world under sail with the self-assurance that comes with knowing how to sail well,\u201d\nsays Colgate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Available at the school\u2019s locations on Captiva Island, Florida, and Scrub Island in the British Virgin Islands, the Fast Track\nWomen\u2019s Weeks start with two days learning basic to intermediate sailing skills on a Colgate 26, and then six days\naboard learning skills to handle 43\u2019 to 54\u2019 cruising monohulls or 39\u2019 to 48\u2019 cruising catamarans, all while making new\nfriends and memories in a comfortable environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

The special women-only Fast Track to Cruising programs are April 29-May 6 at South Seas Island Resort on Captiva\nIsland, Florida, and May 19-27, 2017 in the British Virgin Islands, at Scrub Island Resort, Spa & Marina. Cruising boats\navailable in Florida are two Jeanneau 439s and a Leopard 48 catamaran. In the British Virgin Islands, women will sail on a\nMoorings 3900 catamaran and Moorings 54.5 monohull. No more than four women students and a woman instructor\nwill be on each boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Arrival is Friday before the course begins Saturday, and ends the following Saturday. Course packages range from $3,995\nto $6,500 depending on the size of the cruising boat, and whether participants are signing up for a private or shared\nroom ashore and private or shared cabin aboard. Packages include full week course tuition, professional instructions,\nthree nights\u2019 resort accommodations ashore with room tax and daily resort fee, shared or private cabin aboard the\ncruising boat for five or six nights depending on location, welcome party first night, dinner ashore the night before the\ncruising course starts, all meals and snacks aboard the cruising boat plus two dinners ashore during the cruising course,\ngraduation celebration, special women\u2019s week logo shirt and hat, Doris Colgate\u2019s book Sailing \u2013 A Woman\u2019s Guide and\nthree US Sailing textbooks (for each level of the course), three US Sailing certifications culminating in Bareboat Cruising\nCertification, diploma and logbook, and one year complimentary Cruising World magazine subscription. All participants\nalso enjoy automatic first-year membership in US Sailing, and in the Offshore Cruising Club for world-wide flotilla sailing\nvacations led by Offshore, discounted membership in BoatUS, and first-time discounted charter benefits from The\nMoorings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Offshore Sailing School was founded in 1964 by Olympian, America\u2019s Cup Sailor and National Sailing Hall of Fame\nInductee, Steve Colgate. The school provides a full range of sailing instruction with US Sailing certification \u2013 from\nbeginning sailing to advanced cruising and racing \u2013 at seven locations in Florida, the British Virgin Islands, New York and\nNew Jersey. In addition, the Company conducts team building programs for corporations and groups, and leadership\ntraining for universities, including Emory\u2019s Goizuetta Advanced Leadership Academy. More than 140,000 adults and their\nfamilies have graduated from Offshore Sailing School programs over the past 52 years. For more information and hi-res\nimages, contact Beth Oliver, Director of Sales and Marketing \u2013 Boliver@OffshoreSailing.com or call 239-985-7516. Visit\nOffshoreSailing.com for more details<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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