Our
instructional mission is teaching offshore ocean sailing and ocean navigation
in a liveaboard setting.
Your
classroom and home for 5, 6 or 7 days is a modern, well founded, romantic,
beautiful, fast, and very sea kindly sailing vessel. SAMANA, a 52' steel
offshore sailing ketch, is 63' LOA, has a 16' beam, draws 7', carries
1800 square feet of sail set between two masts, and displaces 34 gross
tons. Built in 1975 in Holland, SAMANA has circumnavigated the globe
and has completed several noteworthy offshore passages.
Captain
Larry Wheeler and Letty Wheeler, your instructors, are professional
teachers with more than 25 years of classroom teaching experience and
over 15 years of experience in sail training. Both Larry and Letty are
certified instructors and are members of the American Sail Training
Association.
The
School of Ocean Sailing operates in the North Atlantic
ocean off the coast of Maine in the summer as well as the Caribbean
Sea in the USVI and BVI during the winter. The curriculum is a rich
blend of technical skill, confidence building, and common sense coupled
with a spirit of adventure and romance. Sailing instruction center on
the principal objectives underlying the knowledge of ocean sailing,
coastal navigation, or celestial navigation. To this end Larry and Letty
have dedicated their sailing vessel, equipment, sailing routes, and
energy.
The
School of Ocean Sailing is able to accommodate beginners
just learning to sail a large ocean vessel to students interested in
advanced ocean navigation.
We
are pleased to announce that our students are now able to purchase an
all inclusive trip coverage plan. Check out their terms
and conditions or click
here
to find out your cost and purchase the insurance if you wish.
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