Couples Sailing School
 

Does anyone have a recommendation on a good place for me and my
significant one to take a 3-4 day sailing course? I want to her to
develop some confidence in herself rather than in a confidence that I
probably won't fall overboard. We do mostly weekend cruising. NE area
would be ideal.

thanks

"Edward Reiss" wrote in message
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Does anyone have a recommendation on a good place for me and my
significant one to take a 3-4 day sailing course? I want to her to
develop some confidence in herself rather than in a confidence that I
probably won't fall overboard. We do mostly weekend cruising. NE area
would be ideal.

thanks

*** If you don't mind the 'extreme North East', treat yourself and try this
place. A couple of co-workers did and loved it
** http://www.souwesteradventures.com/ **

Forgot to mention...if you are paying in 'merican dollahs, it'll be like
getting an approx. 30% discount.
Too bad fall season looks booked. Beautiful time up here unless a hurricane
passes by or over. :-)

Edward Reiss wrote:
Does anyone have a recommendation on a good place for me and my
significant one to take a 3-4 day sailing course? I want to her to
develop some confidence in herself rather than in a confidence that
I probably won't fall overboard. We do mostly weekend cruising. NE
area would be ideal.

My first wife and I chose Steve Colgate's Offshore Sailing School (many
locations) and we did not regret the choice. We later took a second course
in Florida which was as much a vacation as an instruction method.

--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://kerrydeare.home.comcast.net/

On 4 Sep 2004 12:12:44 -0700, "Edward Reiss" wrote:

Does anyone have a recommendation on a good place for me and my
significant one to take a 3-4 day sailing course? I want to her to
develop some confidence in herself rather than in a confidence that I
probably won't fall overboard. We do mostly weekend cruising. NE area
would be ideal.

thanks

In Boston I recommend: bostonsailingcenter.com

--
Chuck Cox, President
SynchroSystems
, , www.synchro.com
(my address is politician-proof, just remove the PORK)

I want to her to develop some confidence in herself rather than in a
confidence that I probably won't fall overboard.

It's common for one person in the couple to have stronger skills at an
activity than the other. It is also common in those circumstances for the
more skilled person to cover for the other, which really hinders both.

Would she consider taking a course on her own to avoid this common pitfall?

My wife and I took most of our sailing classes together. However, she took
one class on her own, attended several clinics on her own, and raced on
several boats before joining the same crew as I am on. It was a good
experience, and she is more confident in her own abilities as a result.

Just a suggestion.

that's a great suggestion which we might do. thanks

"Brien Alkire" wrote:

I want to her to develop some confidence in herself rather than in a
confidence that I probably won't fall overboard.

It's common for one person in the couple to have stronger skills at an
activity than the other. It is also common in those circumstances for the
more skilled person to cover for the other, which really hinders both.

We took two CGAux classes (Sailing and Seamanship and Coastal
Navigation) together, but they were classroom classes, and he didn't
help me any - I'm just as capable of learning as he is. I think he
expected to be bored, as he remarked to me that he'd learned
something.

I then took Annapolis Sailing School classes by myself on the
recommendation of my sister who married into a sailing family. She
and her SIL took the class together so that they would be able to run
the boat in an emergency and so that they would be able to tell if
their husbands were doing something unsafe.

It was a tenet of the ASS that couples did not sail together
especially in the beginning classes. They deliberately split up the
couples. And I think that is wise.

Would she consider taking a course on her own to avoid this common pitfall?

My wife and I took most of our sailing classes together. However, she took
one class on her own, attended several clinics on her own, and raced on
several boats before joining the same crew as I am on. It was a good
experience, and she is more confident in her own abilities as a result.



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