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Comfortable sailing around the bay doing dead reckoning and ready for the next step? Ready to be challenged with strong currents, fog, and tricky anchorages? Let’s sail to Martha’s Vineyard and the surrounding islands for 5 days and be mesmerized with the incredibly strong currents of Wood’s Hole, experience the serenity of sailing at night, and enjoy some fabulous seafood. The schedule is loosely structured as wind and tides dictate the actual daily destination…just like cruising!
This is a serious coastal cruising course living on a larger boat, where we go out to the Martha’s Vineyard area and back to Narragansett Bay. We will be stopping at various anchorages along the way, applying the advanced navigation techniques learned in ASA 105, and do an overnight sail with watch-keeping during the night. We will discuss advanced sail trim, weather, boat systems.
Half the folks that take this course are not interested in the certification… They just want to go sailing with a captain and visit a number of wonderful anchorages at a reasonable price! Folks often take this course more than once as everyone is different. As with any coastal cruising trip, we plan our next day’s journey factoring in the forecast wind and weather… No two trips are the same!