Hands-On Sailing and Boating Training Schools

The following schools are NauticEd Affiliate hands-On Sailing and Boating Training Schools. These Sailing Schools operate independently from NauticEd, however they recommend that you augment your theory based learning with the NauticEd courses and clinics. Once you have completed your on-line NauticEd sailing and boating education you may contact one of these schools for your practical hands-on training. Go ahead, learn to sail with NauticEd. Take the NauticEd Skipper, Crew Member course or one of the specialized sailing or boating clinics.

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St. Petersburg, FL USA
A Women's Sailing Connection
Training by women and for women and couples. Throughout the US & Canada

Anacortes, Washington USA
Anacortes Yacht Charters
Certified Yachting and Sailing school in the Seattle, Anacortes area. Beginning and Advanced Power courses in both single and twin engine.

Annapolis, MD USA
Annapolis Bay Charters, Inc.
Annapolis Bay Charters is dedicated to ensuring you have the skills you need to confidently and safely become the sailor you have always dreamed of being.

Traverse City, Michigan US
Bay Breeze Yacht Charters and School
Basic through advanced sailing courses. Learn to sail, liveaboard cruising, and cruising catamarans. Also navigation, radar, gps, celestial and more.

Marblehead, MA US
Black Rock Sailing School
Certified training facility and winner of 2008 Outstanding School of the Year located in historic Boston Harbor. We use only modern, easily-driver, comfortable, and fun boats.

Springville, UT United States
Bonneville School of Sailing and Seamanship
Bonneville is the only hands-on keelboat sailing school in Utah. We sail on Utah Lake located just 45 minutes south of Salt Lake City. Bonneville offers a 20 hour on-the-water Learn to Sail Course with certification as well as classes in Advanced Sailing Techniques. Also offered are Corporate Retreats and Teambuilding events, Bareboat and Crewed Chartering, and Dinner and Sunset Cruises. Our on the land classes include Celestial Navigation and Boat Building. Please visit us at our website: www.NowBringMeThatHorizon.com for more information.

Roadtown, Tortola, BVI British Virgin Islands
BVI Yacht Charters
We are a full service yacht charter company and Beneteau Fractional Yachting center for the Caribbean. We specialize in new Beneteau Yachts from 31 to 53 feet. We also feature an extensive fleet of Lagoon, Leopard and Seawind Catamarans, from 38 to 47 feet. The skipper and crew courses will provide your crew with a wonderful learning experience during your vacation, but your time spent cruising in our waters will dramatically build your sailing confidence.
Visit us at BVI Yacht Charters for charter specials, Sailing courses, and more details.

Tauranga, 3010 New Zealand
Elements Watersports
Elements Watersports is New Zealands Premier Watersports Centre. Offering Practical Tuition and Kit Rental for Dinghy Sailing & Windsurfing, RYA & YNZ Practical Yacht Courses, RYA Powerboat and Jet Ski (PWC) Certificates and Instructor Training. Tuition and Rentals are available from our bases in Tauranga & Auckland with mobile units nationwide. Fun is Everything.

Sattahip, Chonburi, 20250 Thailand
Gulf Charters Sailing School
Located in the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf Charters Sailing School is the premier Learn to Sail facility in South East Asia for students who want to learn to handle a charter or live aboard cruising yacht on their own. We offer three International Yacht Training certificate courses: Crew, Watchkeeper and Bareboat Captain.

Our regularly scheduled 5 day courses can be taken individually or together by enrolling in one of our Value Package programs. We also offer exciting milebuilder, delivery and racing opportunities to get students out on the water as often as possible.

At Gulf Charter Sailing School we take pride in our ability to teach students to sail in a responsible and seamanlike manner, and to impart our own love and appreciation of the sea. We endeavor to provide a learning environment, both on and off the water, which promotes nautical interest and develops the skills needed to make the most of your time at sea.

Our graduate's are currently sailing yachts on their own all over the world and they carry the valuable lessons learned at Gulf Charter Sailing School with them whether day sailing or circumnavigating. Hope you can join us.

Gulf Charters Thailand IS yachting in the Gulf of Thailand!

YACHT CHARTERS - in the Gulf of Thailand - ask about our off season rates and sailing in the Ko Chang/Ko Samui archipelago.

YACHT BROKERAGE - sales of new and pre-owned sail and power yachts. Our clients understand the value of customer service without all the showroom flash.

IYT SAILING SCHOOL- world class sailing courses where students get hands-on training aboard modern sailing and charter yachts.


Bloomington, IN US
Heart of Sailing
Heart of Sailing introduces sailing to children and adults with developmental disabilities as a form of education and recreational therapy.

St. Petersburg, Florida USA
International Sailing School - FL
Sailing school since 1983 - Certifications from Basic Keelboat classes to Advanced Coastal Cruising classes. Sailing year-round on Tampa Bay and West Florida's Suncoast. Bareboat or Crewed Charters & Sunset Cruises. Our waterfront resort location offers 2 pools & a tiki bar and discounted room rates. Now a WindPath fractional sailing base: www.windpath.com. intlsailsch@tampabay.rr.com 866-789-SAIL (7245) Fax: 727-499-0944

San Diego, California USA
MARITIME INSTITUTE INC.
MARITIME INSTITUTE is a full service USCG Approved and College Accredited Maritime School, founded in 1978. We offer over 40 college accredited maritime courses, Specializing in Master 100 Ton and OUPV (six-pack) courses; traditional classes or ONLINE. In addition we offer courses for Professional Mariners up to second Mate Unlimited. Our school is approved by POST for California Law Enforcement Officers. We provide education for the U.S. Navy, including Navy SEALS and special boat teams. We have articulation agreements with different colleges to help obtain a AA or BS degree. If you have questions please call TOLL FREE 888-262-8020. WE TRAIN PROFESSIONAL MARINERS.

Riga, LV LATVIA
Nautica
The multimedia teaching companion for the theory to become a Coastal Skipper or Yachtmaster. This is the ideal supplement with over 300 animations and quizzes covering coastal navigation, afety at sea, pilotage, meteorology etc. Extensive search functions and glossary. Written text of narration can be displayed. Navigation, terminology, compass, anchoring, charts, plotting, lights, meteorology, Colregs, safety, signals, electronic navigation, position fixing, dead reckoning, buoyage, tides. Introduction to Boating / International Crew International Watchkeeper/ Flotilla Skipper International Bareboat Skipper VHF Radio Communications

HUMACAO, Puerto Rico USA
Nautifull Sailing Club & Charters
Nautifull Sailing Club & Charters is located in the clearly privileged, dream-like and beautifully landscaped paradise of Palmas del Mar Resort Community, at a very accessible location just 35 minutes from San Juan, and just a short cruise to the Spanish, US and British Virgin Islands. The club offers a wide variety of lodging, dinning, and resort facilities from 20 tennis courts to our 2 phenomenal championship 18-hole golf courses and SPA. Our seasoned team of advanced and highly competitive cruising and actively competing instructors range from US Sailing Small Boats Trainers and Coaches to veterans of many fun Caribbean adventures. Maybe you want to join us for a sunset cruise, scheduled flotillas to neighboring paradise islands with exuberant flora and fauna, endangered species to be found snorkeling, scuba diving or just from your shaded cockpit on one of our performance cruisers! Our fleet starts with Echo 12's, great for daytime, learning and recreational, but you can also get highly competitive on this round-flat bottom dinghy with Jib & Main! Friendly and double-chined hulls CL 14's (holds 4 adults, Jib&Main, Spinnaker optional), racy and advanced14' Stealth, J24's to our true, well appointed and fun performance cruiser Dufour 44 Performance Arpege Limited Edition. We are proud founders and hosting headquarters of the Heart of Sailing Foundation Puerto Rico Chapter. More information on services and plans at: www.nautifull.com

Rincon, PR Puerto Rico
Rincon Sailing
With small class size and individual attention, the Rincon Sailing curriculum emphasizes water safety, wind awareness, boat handling, and seamanship. Decision making, leadership, and respect for the local marine environment are also highlighted. Rincon Sailing offers graduated educational formats beginning with learn to sail, intermediate and advanced racing. No matter what level sailor, safety, fun, and learning independence is the forefront of the curriculum. www.rinconsailing.com

Rockwall, Texas USA
Sail With Scott LLC
Sail on "Seawolf" a forty foot wooden sailing catamaran located on Lake Ray Hubbard. Get on the water experience at $25 per two hour sail. You will be part of the working crew during charters. "Seawolf" sails every evening and during most days, so you have a wide range of times available to learn.

Kingsland, Texas USA
Sailing Texas
David Luckenbach has taught hundreds of people how to sail. All classes are taught with no motor, you learn to control the boat safely with wind alone. The two day class is limited to three students, the best number for maximum learning. Most of the 16 hour course is spent on the water sailing the Flying Scot, a stable fast family racing sailboat.

St Maarten, xxxx Netherlands Antilles
St Maarten Sailing School and Charters
St Maarten Sailing School specializes in teaching excellence. We adhere to an instruction course and then add our own expertise, to insure that beginners and experienced students receive unparalleled teaching and the maximum amount of fun. Courses are suitable for ages 8 to 80, with customer service and satisfaction being our highest priority.

Locations Worldwide, Caribbean Mediterranean, Pacific, Asia ...
Sunsail
From the RYA's Start Yachting and Sunsail One Day Taster to competitive racing and Yachtmaster level - our practical sailing schools have something for everyone, everywhere.

Learn to sail with friends, send your children off on a week-long adventure or get on board as a family. Sunsail's choice of specialty courses and online sailing classes with NauticEd means there is something to suit everyone.

All over the world, now in even more amazing destinations, join our friendly Skippers and make new friends on board while you learn to sail or take your skills to the next level.


Austin, TX United States
Texas Sailing
Texas Sailing, located on Lake Travis in Austin, Texas, is owned by sailors, run by sailors, for sailors. Established in 1965, Texas Sailing has set the standard for sailing lessons, sailboat charters, and yacht sales in Central Texas. Come sail with us! We are a full service sailing facility providing: * US Sailing Certifications * Beneteau Yacht Sales * Precision Sailboat Sales * Sail and Power Brokerage * Yacht Charter Management * Sailing Lessons * Bareboat and Captained Charters * Corporate and Group Sailing Events * Sailboat Lease Programs * Sailing Club Memberships * Worldwide Sailing Travel Arrangements * Private Sunset Sails With a dedicated staff of people oriented, professional sailors, we welcome the opportunity to show you just how much fun you can have sailing with Texas Sailing. Please browse our website and you will see why we are recognized as one of the premier sailing institutions in the southwest.

Fort Lauderdale, FL United States
The Catamaran Company
The Catamaran Company Charters Catamarans through out the Caribbean.

Sanford, FL United States
U-SAIL of Central Florida
Live A Dream… Learn To Sail. Sailing is the wind and water calling to those who listen; we can help you answer that calling. Lake Monroe is a wonderful place to feel the wind on your face, relax or actively harness the wind, and get connected with nature. Choose from a two hour on-the-water introduction to sailing up to a full instructor lead Coastal Navigation course. U-SAIL, where you learn to sail.

Pompano Beach, FL USA
Vanderbilt Christian College
VCC is a Liberal Arts College in South Florida, offering associate and bachelor degrees in a variety of programs, including Environmental Ocean Studies & Seamanship. We have Certified Sailing Instructors to teach off-shore sailing.

Nokomis, Florida USA
Virgin Island Sailing, Ltd.
We sell Yacht charters

Chesapeake, MD USA
Voyager Ocean Passages
The Seaworthy School of Sail is a division of Voyager Ocean Passages. Captain Ed Mapes is certified by the American Sailing Association to provide instruction in the full range of Sailing courses, from Beginning Keelboat to Celestial Navigation and Offshore Passagemaking; as private lessons with a certificate. Courses are offered in the Chesapeake Bay and in St. Thomas, USVI, and can lead to crew positions on Voyager for one of our Voyager Ocean Passages.

Punta Gorda, Florida U.S.A.
Wind Quest Sailing School
Our specialized sailing school courses are taught by professionally certified ASA instructors. Our goal is to offer excellent personal hands - on training using proven quality learning techniques. We also offer Crewed Sailboat Charters sailing throughout Charlotte Harbor the Gulf of Mexico and beyond...

Punta Gorda, FL U.S.A.
Yachting Vacations
Yachting Vacations was established in 1984 in subtropical Punta Gorda on Florida's beautiful west coast. We offer captained and bareboat charters on monohulls and catamarans. Yachting Vacations was honored to be named an Outstanding Sailing training School in 2007. Cruising World Magazine has voted our waters best kept sailing secret in the U.S. Visit our website at www.yachtingvacations.com for more information and come sail with us soon!