We offer four coursers in our sailing program:
- Ocean Sailing and Advanced Navigation
- Celestial Navigation
- Ocean Sailing and Advanced Navigation w/night Sail
- Celestial Navigation w/night Sail
In each sailing program you handle all offshore sailing operations to include reaching, running, coming-about, gybing, and hoving-to. You will prepare for, and in all likelihood, in Maine operate in fog. You will set storm sails as well as all other sail changes.
Significant course objectives include instruction in modern offshore electronic navigational equipment as well as all non-electronic navigation procedures. We operate in areas of extreme current or tides.
Our celestial navigation students use high quality marine sextants and modern sight reduction procedures.
In the Caribbean your navigational plans will incorporate ocean currents, dead reckoning, weather data, radar, GPS, running fixes, celestial navigation data, and electronic charting and AIS.
All sailing programs are delivered by mature, professional Coast Guard licensed teachers. Our sailing programs are both formal and practical. At the end of your course you will receive a certificate signed by a USCG licensed instructor. This “Sea Service Form” will be awarded upon satisfactory completion of each course; the Advanced, Celestial, and Combination courses. A sailing school certificate is often required for chartering a bareboat in the Caribbean. Our "Sea Service Form" is accepted by all charter companies. The sea time aboard the SAMANA can also be used if you decide some day to apply for a USCG Captain's license.
Sailing School Schedule
Course Cost and Avalability Schedule
FILLED
Offshore Passage
Trinidad/Saint Thomas
$2,025.00 per person
$2,025.00 per person
$2,025.00 per person
$2,025.00 per person
$2,025.00 per person
$2,025.00 per person
$2,025.00 per person
$2,025.00 per person
FILLED
Offshore Passage
Trinidad - Saint Thomas
What they say / Magazine articles and mentions
Good Old Boat Magazine
An in-depth article written by one of our students and published inGood Old Boat Magazine
Issue 21
Blue Water Sailing Magazine
A reference about the School of Ocean Sailing in the July 2007 Issue ofBlue Water Sailing Magazine
Page 71.
The instructional mission of the School of Ocean Sailing is to teach offshore ocean sailing and ocean navigation in a liveaboard setting.
- Give personalized instruction from professional instructors
- Teach sailing aboard a large, beautiful and well equipped offshore heavy displacement ketch
- Teach navigation using modern electronic navigation equipment
- Teach navigation using non-electronic navigation procedures
- Offer an ocean sailing experience under real ocean conditions
- Instill confidence
- Use high quality sextants and celestial navigation materials
- Offer a balanced blend of formal instruction and practical experience and relaxation
- Serve excellent food
- Anchor or moor in quiet anchorages
The best way to get in contact with us is via Email or fill out the Quick Contct Us Form
- Mailing Address
8168 Crown Bay Marina, Suite 310-290
Saint Thomas, VI 00802 - +1(207) 321-9249
- svsamana@sailingschool.com
