Our Sailing Program

We offer four courses in our sailing program:

1. Ocean Sailing and Advanced Navigation
2. Ocean Sailing and Celestial Navigation
3. Ocean Sailing and Advanced Navigation Combined with a night sail in the Caribbean
4. Ocean Sailing and Celestial Navigation Combined with a night sail in the Caribbean

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. In Maine your navigational plans will incorporate 15' tides, prominent rocky shores, picturesque lighthouses, dead reckoning, weather data, operate in fog, radar, GPS, running fixes, celestial navigation data, and electronic charting.

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 or in Maine. 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.