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Courses Exclusively For Women 2009 You Can Sail Escapes Whether you just want to sail around home or take off on a long distance cruise, America's #1 Sailing School® has just the program for You! Our fabulous getaways making sailing fun! You learn in style with adventurous women like you, all in an atmosphere of pure camaraderie while exploring the wondrous isles of the Caribbean or Florida. Make this the year you fulfill your dream. Ask for one of our Women's Escape from a loved one or friend, and join the thousands of "girlfriends" who went home to take the helm! Each of our highly qualified women instructors are there for You. They love these programs as much as you will for the rewarding sense of accomplishment they provide. No matter which course you choose, you'll learn from the best of the best women instructors – certified to teach to the highest levels with Coast Guard licenses and the desire to put you in control. I could not have imagined that I would make as much progress in the four days of Learn to Sail classroom and practical sailing training as I did. I loved it that the instructors and my shipmates made making mistakes such an honorable way to learn. It was truly a pleasure to learn with a group of all women adults – enriching in many unexpected ways. Anne Orban – Lancaster, Pennsylvania Fast Track to Cruising® in the British Virgin Islands Learn to Sail plus Live Aboard Cruising At The Moorings in Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands July 22-August 2, 2009 September 30-October 11, 2009 Take Fast Track to Cruising® and you’ll be set for life – ready to take the helm on any boat up to 50’ with total confidence! You learn in an environment of support and empowerment, sharing the sailing lifestyle with active, enthusiastic women like you. This program starts with Offshore Sailing School’s signature Learn to Sail course – four days of comprehensive instruction aboard a Colgate 26 while you live ashore. On your fifth day, you'll board a magnificent 44'-49' sailing yacht and gain big-boat confidence while cruising these verdant isles. There's just nothing like the thrill of steering a large yacht on crystal clear waters, the wind in your hair, girlfriends trimming sails as you call the commands. By course end, you are ready for bareboat chartering with a discount on your first charter from The Moorings. Back home you will handle your own yacht and sail with family and friends with ease. Your Fast Track to Cruising® package in the British Virgin Islands includes: The complete Learn to Sail course with Day Sailing The complete Live Aboard Cruising course with Cruising certification Five nights at the Mariner Inn (first four days and last night before going home) Welcome ice-breaker party the night you arrive A practice sail without the instructor aboard on a Colgate 26 Sunday Champagne graduation celebration after your Learn to Sail practice sail Six seminar hours during the Learn to Sail course Fourteen hours of on-water instruction aboard a Colgate 26 during the Learn to Sail course Textbooks for both courses plus Doris Colgate’s SAILING: A Woman’s Guide published by Ragged Mountain Press/McGraw-Hill Six days of cruising instruction aboard a Moorings 44’-49’ charter yacht All breakfasts, lunches and four dinners during the cruising course All cruising taxes Graduation celebration upon return to The Moorings Friday midday 24-hour cruise without the instructor aboard A commemorative t-shirt and hat to celebrate the perfect learning vacation! Your total package cost for this incredible 10-day adventure is $4285 double occupancy (share room and cabin), $5355 single occupancy (private room and cabin). Plan to arrive Wednesday and depart Sunday, 10 days later. If you have already taken our Learn to Sail course you may take the Live Aboard Course alone. Please call for rates and start dates. Nowhere else will you get such first rate instruction from highly qualified, Coast Guard licensed instructors (like Louise Reardon pictured to right above) on the finest training boats there are. You’ll go home with a lifelong skill your sailing friends will covet and a vacation adventure you’ll never forget!

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