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Outbound Sailing Community

In our ongoing commitment to help our students maintain their sailing skills we are introducing a new program we call Outbound Sailing Community. You may know of our Monthly and Bareboat Memberships, Pico rentals, our Refresher courses, Carib trips, and other skill maintenance programs we offer. This is a bit different. It also brings a more social aspect to your…

Students Navigating

A big part of what we do in our Caribbean Adventure Learning course is Navigation. Some of the skills students learn are how to navigate using dead reckoning, how to plot a position by taking bearings on two objects, and doing a running fix. We check our work using the GPS to see how close we got. It’s really satisfying…

Anchoring – Avoid a pile up!

The hard part about anchoring is planning for the unknowns and uncertainties, such as how another boat is anchored, how much is the wind direction/speed going to shift during the night, should I set an anchor watch. The easy part is actually dropping the anchor, right? Well, not always.  Let me illustrate by sharing an anchoring incident on one of…

Navigation – Then and Now

The fundamental objective of navigation is to get from A to B without hitting the ground. To do this, there are several things that are essential to achieving this objective.–  a chart with soundings and a coordinate system–  a way to plot positions and directions on the chart–  the ability to determine your current position–  the ability to determine the…