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Your Sailing MBA: The Most Exciting and Innovative Sailing Curriculum You’ll Find

This serious sail training program gives you the ultimate confidence to go from learning to sail to blue water passage making with confidence to sail the seven seas. America’s #1 Sailing School® – founded by Steve and Doris Colgate, the award-winning gurus of sail training – takes you on the most innovative Fast Track® program there is. You earn six certifications in three courses at impressive savings and guarantee a personal dream to reach the pinnacle of sailing education in two years or less.

How to Earn Your Sailing MBA from America’s #1 Sailing School®

  • Enroll in three Fast Track® sailing course levels
  • Go from novice to confident blue water sailor over a two year period, or less
  • Earn six sailing skills certifications in three experiential adventures
  • Gain the confidence and skills to see the world under sail

A Sail-Training Program That Can Prepare You for a Life at Sea

Dear Steve and Doris,COAST Sailing MBA: Learn to Sail to Blue Water Passage Making
It’s with great pleasure to announce that after being a loyal (and very satisfied) student of Offshore Sailing School, I am now moving on to my final career – a life at sea. After 3-1/2 years of planning, I have successfully sold my 21 year-old business, sold my house, placed my worldly possessions in storage and am heading to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia to sign on to the barque Picton Castle as a sail trainee for a 13-month around the world voyage to further my education, and to receive the necessary training and time at sea to qualify for my Able-Bodied Seaman’s license and 100-ton Captain’s license. I want to thank you and your highly competent and professional staff for all you have taught me throughout my course of study at Offshore Sailing School. Keep up the good work!
Bruce MacBain (pictured above) completed the COAST program in 2009

Like Bruce and So Many Other Offshore Grads – You Can Pursue Your Ultimate Sailing Goal Too — Three Rewarding Experiential Adventures Make Up This Three-Step Program

How to Accomplish This Exciting Step-By-Step DreamWoman instructor with two men in catamaran cockpit

First, choose Fast Track to Cruising® (FTLAC) dates:

This 8-day adventure starts with the 2-day Learn to Sail 101 course while sleeping ashore, learning the basics on the award-winning Colgate 26 daysailer. Then you immediately board a 40’-47’ liveaboard monohull or catamaran for the 6-day Live Aboard Cruising course adventure that includes Basic Cruising 103 and Bareboat Cruising 104.

Second, choose Fast Track to Coastal Passagemaking® (CPM) dates:

On your own time complete the Online Coastal Navigation 105 course, then board one of our big live-aboard monohulls or catamarans for 6-days of Coastal Passage Making 106 that takes you along the coast, island to island and cove to cove with night sailing while you learn.

Finally, choose Fast Track to Offshore Passage Making® (FTOPM) dates:

Start with the 3-day Celestial Navigation 107 course while staying ashore. Then board one of our live aboard monohulls or catamarans for the 6-day Offshore Passage Making 108 course and gain ultimate blue water sailing confidence as you head offshore, out of sight of land, standing watches, sailing through the night.

How to Lock in Your Fast Track® Cruising and Passage Making Course Dates and Save Big!Man standing to left of woman steering a big boat

  • Book and pay in full for FTLAC (101/103/104) at a 10% discount off the 2025 package price.
  • Add a $2,000 non-refundable deposit to lock in future dates and rates, to be held for payment towards your final Fast Track to Passage Making course over the next two years!
  • Each time you book the next on-water course level*, you get the 2025 rate and enjoy a 10% savings on that package price too!
  • If you are already an Offshore Sailing School Learn to Sail 101 graduate in the past three years, you may deduct that portion of your first-step FTLAC package.
  • If you have completed FTLAC 103/104 at Offshore Sailing School, you may lock in the two Passage Making course 2025 rates at the same non-refundable deposit.
  • No need to choose all your course dates now, just say “yes” to your sailing MBA AND CALL TODAY!
  • Regardless of dates you choose or might choose later, the $2,000 non-refundable deposit is required to lock in 2025 rates and enjoy more savings!

Note: Rates vary due to accommodation costs for shore-based sessions, live-aboard boats used for course dates you choose, and length of program. Lowest shore accommodation rates generally occur late summer and early fall. Highest rates are over holiday periods and February through April. Additional savings may occur when two sign up to take this program together and share rooms ashore and cabins aboard. Discounts other than those listed here cannot be applied.
*The Online Coastal Navigation course cannot be discounted.

Where COACH Fast Track® Sailing Courses are Available

  • Scrub Island Resort and The Moorings base in British Virgin Islands – FTLAC and FTCLAC only
  • Pink Shell Beach Resort & Marina on Ft. Myers Beach, Florida – FTLAC, FTCLAC and FTCPM
  • Downtown Hampton Inn and Municipal Marina in St. Petersburg, Florida – All FT levels in this program

+1-888-454-7015 • +1-239-454-1700
 sail@offshoresailing.com • www.offshoresailing.com

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