The Offshore Sailing School Advantage

The Sailing School You Can Trust for Quality Sailing Lessons and Education: 

1. Only Offshore has the experience it takes (more than 47 years) to give you the highest caliber education there is. More than 125,000 graduates have gone on to live the sailing lifestyle a various levels after taking a course with Offshore.
    
2. Offshore Sailing School is the official sailing school for The Moorings, providing qualified Moorings bareboat sail and power skippers for over 30 years. The Moorings is the premium sail and power charter product in the largest travel company in the world. Partnerships like this require a lot of collaboration, trust and understanding of what you want in a meaningful sailing education. 
    
3. Offshore Sailing School is a longtime partner of Hunter Marine, which provides brand new Hunter Yachts each year for our stateside campuses. As one of the leading boat manufacturers in the United States, partnerships like this continue to validate Offshore's position in the industry.
    
4. Steve Colgate designed the Colgate 26 in 1996 (now used by the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and many other service institutions) because no stock boat met his parameters for safety, high performance, sophistication, while remaining easy to handle and comfortable to sail. This is your learning platform for Learn to Sail and Performance courses and the first step of our week-long Fast Track to Cruising course.
    
5. Steve Colgate developed our courses in 1964, incorporating definitive teaching methodology: auditory, visual and kinesthetic. Textbooks are sent in advance to study, classroom sessions precede each sailing session to reinforce on-water learning. Then you learn by doing on the water with an instructor who leads you through the learning process.
    
6. Each certification course through "bareboat cruising" has a separate, up-to-date award-winning textbook, expressly written for that course by Steve and Doris Colgate, sent in advance to study.
    
7. Steve Colgate headed up the training committee that developed the US Sailing certification pogram - the U.S. standard for high quality sailing education and he requires that we go beyond those standards in our programs.
    
8. Our highly trained, very experienced and dedicated faculty is required to complete the most rigorous certification evaluation there is - provided by US Sailing, the governing body of sailing in the U.S. and appointed by Congress.
    
9. You will experience the dedication and hands-on direction of Steve and Doris Colgate - still deeply involved since 1964 - and two of the most experienced sailing educators in the world, with many awards to back up this claim.
    
10. Offshore Sailing School is the only sailing school with an exclusive, innovative Fast Track to Cruising® couse that takes you from a Colgate 26 to comfortably handle a 43'- 50' monohull or catamaran in one week - ready to charter on your own with no prior experience.
     
11. Offshore Sailing School is the only sailing learning vacation company providing exclusive sailing vacaton packages with longtime resort partners - some of the most sought-after waterside destination resorts in the country.
     
12. And we are the only saling school that requires a hands-on test sail without the instructor aboard in most courses - proving that you will learn and absorb far more than you thought possible in the time allotted for the course.

Last but not least, we teach the "whys" of sailing, not just the "hows" - and provide the ultimate confidence to go off sailing on your own or with a charter company in complete comfort.