Essential skills don’t rub off on you by just sailing around.  Amazingly, however, we seem to be the only program in the region actually using this method,* which is now even advocated by the American Sailing Association.  Of course, our location lends itself to this practice.  Most other schools would have a hard time trying to set marker buoys each day without running afoul of commercial traffic or their local harbor police!

Students in one of our launches with the Obstacle buoys in the bow.  We set them  anew each day based on the conditions.

Sailing in a straight line doesn't do much at all.  Each turn around our Obstacle Course^sm requires students to perform at least one of each basic manuever in sailing: heading up, bearing away, tacking & jibing.  And while no sailing school is deliberately trying to cheat you by allowing you to simply sail in a straight line, it's just too easy to fall into that trap without a regimen.

Obstacle Course^sm makes you do what you came to sailing school for!  And we'll make you use it a little each day.  We think you'll really enjoy it, too.  That's what our students have always told us.