Private lessons are a great way to get introduced to sailing or brush up on your skills. Each lesson is three hours. You will benefit from the one-on-one instruction from a well-experienced instructor. You may bring up to three other people to learn with you! Available most, Fridays, you may also call for a specific date.

If it has been a while since you have sailed and need to refresh your skills, take this 3-hour lesson. Students will practice rigging, points of sail, and mooring pickups on a 23-foot boat with no auxiliary motor. This class is perfect for individuals who took our ASA 101 course in years past and need a day of review before going out this season!  All students have prior experience, but your comfort level and abilities do not matter.

Students learn to sail aboard a 40 to 43-foot sailboat. This two-day course is held on the water the entire time and does not include any classroom sessions. Students learn to practice docking, anchoring, sailing, and emergency procedures. They also become familiar with new systems onboard larger sailing vessels. 

*Prerequisites: ASA 101

**Available in both New Rochelle and USVI in winter

Experienced skippers become proficient in captaining auxiliary sailing vessels from 30 to 45 feet in length. This course is a 7-day live-aboard experience that teaches all students the necessary skills to charter a boat anywhere in the world. This is the last course that one must complete to receive an international competency certificate (ICC), required in many European countries.

*Prerequisites: ASA 101 and ASA 103

**Only available in USVI

The course provides you with navigation theory required to operate a boat in coastal waters. This includes: converting courses between true and magnetic, determining drift, taking bearings, working with light lists, and more. The test will be taken at our office in New Rochelle at a later date.

*No prerequisites

**Take-home study – materials mailed to you

Students learn more important information to captain boats 30 to 50 feet in length. This course is beneficial for both coastal and inland waters in any conditions. The specific skills learned in this course are valuable for the lifelong joy of sailing.​

*Prerequisites: ASA 101, 103, 104, and 105

**Only available in USVI