Women
on the Water Week
At Women on the Water Week at the beautiful Bitter End Yacht Club, women instructors teach women the fundamentals and peculiarities of the proper way to sail a boat, from small Lasers, to bigger keel boats. Pam Wall is one of the teachers and says "The greatest feeling of empowerment and ability to know what is happening and why, is what every women learns during this fun week of sailing in lovely Virgin Gorda."
Women and Cruising Blog: How We Learn
Women and Cruising contributors tell us how they have learned the skills
they need to sail and cruise. They discuss buying and learning to maintain a
new boat, taking classes and getting a captain's license, learning to handle
the boat alone after a husband's death.
American
Sailing Association
The American Sailing Association is dedicated to training, teaching and certifying schools, sailing instructors and sailing enthusiasts. find a course or an affiliated school through the site.
Blue
Water Sailing School
Offers Basic, Bareboat, Advanced and Offshore courses in Fort Lauderdale, FL, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Newport, RI, and the Bahamas
Fair Wind
Fair Wind Sailing School provides sailing instruction and ASA lessons
in the US Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands, in the Great
Lakes, and on the Chesapeake. They offer Basic Sailing, Bare
boat Chartering, Advanced Sailing, Catamarans Sailing, Coastal
and Celestial Navigation.
Her Ladyship Sailing
Her Ladyship is a program within Sunshine Coast Adventures, an American Sailing Association school. They offer women and couples sailing courses in private and group programs in the USA, Canada and Caribbean.
How to Sail on Fast Lane
Racing can be a great way to become a proficient sailor. Sherry (Beckett) McCampbell of Soggy Paws honed her skills racing her sailboat Fast Lane with an all women crew. She even wrote a manual for her crew "How to Sail on Fast Lane" which is available as a free download on the webpage she created for her boat and crew.
Jack Klang
Jack Klang's seminars, demonstrations at boat shows and DVDs are excellent ways to improve your docking and boat-handling skills.
Mahina
Expeditions
John and Amanda Neal have been teaching and sharing knowledge with sailors. An instructional passage aboard Mahina Tiare gives participants the skills to sail anywhere on their own.
National Women's Sailing Association
The mission of the National Women's Sailing Association is "to enrich
the life of women and girls through education and access to the sport of sailing".
They offer programs such as Take the Helm, all-women sail flotillas, and small
workshops which include introduction to navigation, celestial navigation and
hands-on diesel engine.
OCSC Sailing School
OCSC Sailing is a San Francisco Bay sailing school and sailing club offering sailing lessons, sailboat instruction, US Sailing Certification, sailboat charters, club membership, corporate teambuilding events, and bareboat vacations. Courses range from beginner sailboat lessons, to offshore training, to spinnaker sailing, to world cruising preparation.
Orange Coast College
The School of Sailing and Seamanship at Orange Coast College offers specialized classes for women including Women's Keelboat, Women's Cruising, and Catalina Island and Channel Islands Cruises for Women. The Alaska Eagle offers opportunities to gain offshore sailing experience while crossing oceans or exploring the world's most spectacular coasts and islands.
Safety at Sea Seminar
This day-long seminar prepares you to head offshore with a knowledge of safe seamanship, heavy-weather tactics, and boat preparation. See safety equipment demos and crew-overboard-recovery techniques.
Sea Sense
Sea Sense, the Women's Sailing and Power boating School, is owned and operated
by professional women boaters. They teach in Florida, New England, Chesapeake
Bay, the Great Lakes, San Francisco Bay, the Pacific Northwest and along the
Intracoastal Waterways, plus international classes.
Sistership Sailing School
Sistership, a sailing school for women, couples, and families, offers the opportunity to learn the sport of sailing in a positive, relaxed, supportive environment. It is based in Tortola in the beautiful British Virgin Islands.
Steve
and Doris Colgate's Offshore Sailing School
Offshore provides sailing courses certified by US Sailing, from day sailing and coastal cruising to ocean sailing to live aboard blue water sailing and offshore passage making training.
Tethys Offshore Sailing for Women
Earn International Sail and Power Association (ISPA) certification
while cruising in Pacific Northwest waters. Founder Nancy Early
led two all-women circumnavigations aboard Tethys. Nineteen
women joined her on the first circumnavigation and 34 on the
second.
Womanship
Womanship is a sailing school designed by women, for women. Courses offered in 18 locations. Nobody yells ... Everybody learns.
Womens Sailing Connection
The Women Sailing Connection will help you find the right sailing classes, women sailing organizations or an all women charter anywhere in the world. You can find professional certified Captains and Instructors who teach with organizations like US Sailing, American Sailing Association, Canadian Royal Yachting Association.
Admiral's Angle: Engine Room
Gwen Hamlin looks at what women need to know in the engine room. This column appeared in the June 2008 issue of Latitude’s & Attitudes Magazine |
Top 
