Bill Ibsen

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Buford, Georgia USA

Level IV Captain Rank Qualified Sailing Instructor / Assessor

Teaching, coaching, and instructing others to grow in their knowledge, skill, and experience has been a decades-long passion of mine. Helping others to perform skills that at first seem daunting or scary, but with repetition and fine-tuning turn into “I really can do this!” or even “I’m good at this!” brings me great life satisfaction. I am teacher/instructor at heart, and bring multi-disciplinary experience into my sailing instruction. Serving as a professional high-performance driving instructor for the Porsche Experience Center plus my 20 years’ experience teaching and authoring national articles on off-road competition motorcycle skills, combined with being a NauticEd Course Author and Editorial Contributor, I feel comfortable teaching any adult student, male or female, especially in situations that feel like near a student's limits. I am a volunteer skipper for weeklong marriage sailing adventures around the breathtaking Caribbean waters of the BVI on new Voyage 590 catamarans.

Credentials

NauticEd Credentials

NauticEd System Knowledge Expert NauticEd System Knowledge Expert
Transformational Instructor Course Graduate Transformational Instructor Course Graduate
American National Standards Instructor/Assessor American National Standards Instructor/Assessor
SLC Instructor/Assessor SLC Instructor/Assessor
Catamaran Catamaran
  • Level IV Captain Rank Qualified Instructor/Assessor
  • American National Standards Instructor/Assessor
  • SLC Instructor/Assessor
  • Catamaran Instructor/Assessor

Other Credentials

Sailed in 7 countries. ASA101-108 certified. Skipper in British Virgin Islands. Porsche Experience Center, Atlanta, GA High Performance Driving Instructor; Porsche Club of America High Performance Driving Instructor. Executive coach, and professional corporate trainer specializing in emotional intelligence. Trials motorcycle instructor/mechanic/minder for 20+ years.

Publications

Read the Expert Articles Bill Ibsen has written

All Locations

Lake Lanier, Atlanta, GA

6900 Lanier Island Parkway Buford, GA 30518 USA Map it
I train on a Catalina 18 at Lake Lanier, or on customer sailboats.

British Virgin Islands

PO Box 139, Road Town Road Town, Tortola British Virgin Islands Map it
This is the Moorings base, although I can travel to any charter company base.
Notes: I am also available to travel and assist with skippering anywhere in North America, the Caribbean, or French Polynesia. Just contact me at billibsen@mac.com or 678-429-3479.

Training and assessment

Practical Training Courses

International License Training/Assessment

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