Sailing and Cruising Coastal B.C
- Enjoy a perfect vacation, professional instruction & get your CYA certificate
- Sail the amazing Georgia Strait, round Vancouver Island or go offshore cruising
- Become certified to charter, navigate challenging passages, experience secluded anchorages or do a women's only cruise & learn - no yelling guaranteed!
Starting From
$899 CAD*
The company's approach to teaching boating is simple - they focus on hands-on experience under the guidance of skilled and patient instructors. All of their courses lead to internationally recognized Canadian Yachting Association certification, and all their instructors have surpassed CYA teaching standards.
SELECTED COURSES:
Intermediate Cruising out of Vancouver, Course Fee from CAD $899.00*
Become certified to charter worldwide in this confidence-building 3-day program. You'll learn the use of electronics, daytime navigation, boat maintenance, boat systems, overnight anchoring, safety procedures, trip planning and general seamanship. Boarding the night before is complimentary and provisioning is included in the price. Trips return Sunday by 3pm.
♀ Womens Basic Cruise and Learn, Course Fee from CAD $ 1299/1499*
No yelling onboard and you do it all! Experience cruising life on a 5 day, fully provisioned sail boat through the Gulf Islands. Follow the best winds and find the best scenery as you learn about seamanship, safety, anchoring, navigation and boat handling under sail and power. Successful students are awarded the Canadian Yachting Association’s Basic Cruising Standard.
Advanced Cruising - 5 day program, Course Fee from CAD $1599*
Become a confident coastal cruiser in all conditions day and night on this challenging 5 trip. Course topics include night sailing, navigation, sail theory, day and night emergency drills and splicing. This certification is also offered in a 7 day format to the West Coast of Vancouver Island as well as a 14-day Vancouver Island circuit. This course is scheduled to be on a late model yacht between 43-50'. Five to six students and one instructor will sail aboard the yacht. Provisioning and course materials are included.
Prerequisite: CYA Intermediate Cruising, CYA Coastal Navigation, VHF, Standard First Aid & CPR
Offshore Circumnavigation (14days), Course Fee from CAD $4399*
As you circumnavigate Vancouver Island, you will do the CYA Advanced standard, learning about weather, boat handling, advanced sail trim and other components laid out in your CYA logbook for the Advanced Standard.
Then you'll learn boat preparation for offshore cruising, passage planning and heavy weather sailing. The Canadian Yachting Association Offshore Standard involves the research required for an actual offshore passage of your choice on the vessel of your choice. For some, the offshore course is the beginning of a lifetime of offshore cruising. For others, it is an experience of a lifetime. The two week format starts and finishes in Vancouver and affords the opportunity to explore the untouched beauty of the West Coast of Vancouver Island in addition to the introduction to sailing out of the sight of land.
This course is scheduled to be on a veteran offshore cruising yacht between 37-40'. Four students and one instructor will sail aboard the yacht. Provisioning and course materials are included.
Prerequisite: CYA Intermediate Cruising, Celestial Navigation, VHF, Standard First Aid & CPR
Master of Yachts - Coastal - Sail IYT, Course fee from CAD $2229*
It's a comprehensive live aboard course consisting of 6 days for sail or 5 days for power, which includes the practical on the water examination. The course covers subjects such as navigational charts and publications, dead reckoning and estimated position, position fixing, tides, tidal levels and data, pilotage, safety at sea, meteorology and much more. Because the Master of Yachts Coastal course is conducted onboard a yacht it also covers such practical seamanship skills as ropework, anchorwork, boat handling, docking, yacht presentation, navigation, passage planning and much more.
Prerequisite: MOY Coastal Theory (available through BCIT Marine Campus in North Vancouver, BC).
If you cannot find the perfect cruise & learn vacation let us know. We will find it for you! There are many more courses/trips to choose from, starting from day seminars to longer vacations.
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* Please Note: All prices quoted are per person and subject to change and do not include GST and applicable taxes.
