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Learn to Sail

(After some general comments, we get down to the nitty-gritty of sailing.) 


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Sailing is really the art of using the natural force of the wind to move your vessel from where you are to where you want to be.  It involves skill, finesse and an understanding of the natural forces you are attempting to harness.  The result is one of pure joy.

A Caribbean Dream Charter is an easy, natural way to develop your first sailing skills or to build on the ones you already have.  Everything is “user friendly.”  By just living the life on board as we travel from one idyllic tropical bay and white-sand beach to the next, you will learn techniques like steering the boat, trimming the sails, coming about, picking up a mooring or anchoring for the night.  Without even trying to, you will discover how to safely enter an anchorage, choose a secure mooring, know when your anchor is properly set and if you’ve chosen the right spot.  Throughout the week you’ll learn how to tie some sailors’ knots, use the boat hook, be able to tell the depth of the water from its color, and to properly get in and out of the dinghy. 

Since you’ll be participating as a crewmember on a live-aboard charter yacht, you’ll learn how to properly store your food provisions so that they won’t spoil, how to work a gimbaled marine stove and cook on board, discover the best way to run through the daily checklist on a marine diesel engine, understand the basics of ship-to-shore and ship-to-ship communications…and more.   

  


 

Always remember:

 

“Days spent sailing are not deducted from one’s allotted time on earth.”

 


 

Here are some basic sailing terms and concepts.

(It’s common practice to have the wind coming from the top of a page, even if not indicated.)  

 

            

 

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If you would like to charter a sailboat of your own one day, here are most of the skills and areas of expertise that you will need to master over time.

A Caribbean Dream Charter is a very easy, relaxed way to begin.

 

        

 

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