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"Roger Long" wrote:

I’d appreciate leads and, better, recommendations on where she could
go during the winter to learn how to sail a small boat around and know
what the sails and forces are doing on the big boat from experience
rather than just books and my explanations. Then, either at the same
or another place, learning to crew and navigate a large boat to the
point of being able to get it home in a pinch.

I'd suggest the Colgates' Offshore Sailing School in the BVI.
http://www.offshore-sailing.com/ Their boats are close enough to dinks
to make real sailors, big enough that yours won't be that much a
stretch.

And the the off-time possibilities are delicious.

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Jere Lull
Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
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