What is your reason to sail? Find a shared activity for everyone in the family? Learn a confidence-building skill? Extend your awareness? Balance the indoors with the great expansive outside? Just sail away?
"Frank sat down to really find out what we wanted to achieve in the sailing class and achieved that. I was really quite concerned about my anchoring skills and I feel much more confident about that now." - Chance Hart, Durham, NC
Ways to Begin...
If you're ready to learn to sail, and it's something you've always wanted to do, then we suggest that you enroll in the Basic Keelboat Course. You'll be absolutely amazed at how much fun it is and how much you will learn. Afterward, and at your own pace, you may enjoy sailing with friends, take Focus Classes from us on specific technical areas, and enroll in successive courses as your interest and capabilities increase. There is no end to the enjoyment of sailing.
If you're unsure if sailing is for you, we recommend that you join us on a half-day sail called Intro to Sailing. It's a fine way to feel what it's like to be on a keelboat that can't tip over, in a calm environment with a good instructor. This half-day sailing class will demonstrate to you how little work it actually takes to enjoy a gentle harbor sail.
Continuing to Enjoy through Improvement...
If you're ready to review or expand your skills, we offer several alternatives. Review general skills with Refresher Courses, focus on perfecting specific skills with Focus Classes, take new 3-10 day Classes, or Charter a boat with or without a skipper. Sometimes it's simply fun to sail, and to learn through playing; for this we offer Races and Voyages, which are often tied in with higher level sailing classes, but need not necessarily be taken as a certification class.
Ocean Sailing Academy Charleston Harbor at Patriots Point 24 Patriots Point Rd, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
