Performance Racing Clinic 2025 – Learn Advanced Sailing and Sailboat Racing Techniques
Dive into our Performance Racing Clinic, which is designed to transform sailboat racers to regatta winners.
Steve Colgate started Performance Race Weeks in the Bahamas in 1967.
This event will be held January 11 to 16, 2025 at the picturesque Pink Shell Beach Resort & Marina on the Gulf of Mexico near Fort Myers, Florida. This Performance Racing Clinic is a must for all experienced sailors looking to boost their sailboat racing skills, strategies, and tactics.
An Olympian, America’s Cup Competitor, and 2015 Hall of Fame Inductee, Steve Colgate is the innovator of sailboat racing instruction. Starting in 1967, his sailboat racing programs have been held in the Bahamas, the British Virgin Islands, and Florida. In 2025, our Performance Race Week® Performance Racing Clinic returns to the beautiful Pink Shell Beach Resort & Marina on Ft. Myers Beach, Florida.
This exhilarating racing event will feature four accomplished racing sailors as coaches, including Olympic champion Allison Jolly. It was 1988 when Allison and her crew Lynne Jewell became the first women to win a Gold Medal in sailing in the modern Olympics. Allison won the Women’s Collegiate National Championship in 1975 and again in 1976. She was named Yachtswoman of the Year in 1976. She has led the USF (University of South Florida) St. Petersburg, Florida, sailing team as head coach since 2004. She was inducted to the National Sailing Hall of Fame in the Class of 2019. Learn more about Allison here.
Olympic Gold Medalists Lynne Jewell and Allison Jolly
JOIN OUR NEXT GO-FOR-THE-GOLD PERFORMANCE RACING CLINIC
JANUARY 11-16, 2025
Four Exciting Days of Race Training at Pink Shell Beach Resort & Marina on the Gulf of Mexico
The Performance Race Week® Performance Racing Clinic starts with a Meet and Greet Welcome party on arrival night, January 11, 2025. The next morning, January 12, you set sail on Offshore’s fleet of Colgate 26s, learning go-fast sailboat techniques, how to do a perfect mark rounding, how to maximize your speed when sailing closehauled and on a close or broad reach, how to set asymmetrical and symmetrical spinnakers when sailing off the wind, and what you need to know about sailboat racing rules. Coached by Offshore Sailing School’s expert racing team of instructors, you will be advancing your sailboat racing knowledge and sailboat racing skills in 2 three-hour sessions with multiple starts and actual races, each of the first three days. On the morning of Day 4, you head out again for another on-water coaching session and practice starts. That afternoon you are racing for trophies in an an intense sailboat regatta as the entire fleet vies for line honors in at least four races with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place trophies awarded.
Who Should Participate
- Sailors with strong sailing skills, ready for racing
- Race skippers and crew who want to improve skills
- Pre-requisites: US Sailing Basic Keelboat Certification and Performance Sailing courses or equivalent experience on boats at least 20′ LOA
- Capable of steering and crewing 20’+ sailboats
- Racing resume required
- Minimum age 16, with adult family member
Pink Shell Beach Resort & Marina – Florida Sailing School
Family and Friends Welcome
If you have family and friends who want to take this Performance Racing Clinic with you, sign them up! If they just want to relax on the beach and explore the many fun eco- and historical retreats in the area, bring them along. There is a ton to do at Pink Shell Beach Resort! Guests are invited to the Welcome Orientation Reception, the Beach BBQ, and the Awards Dinner following the Regatta for a $250 per-person fee.
The program ends on January 15, so plan to return home on January 16 unless you book extra nights to enjoy the resort’s many amenities and relax on the beach to work on that healthy, warm-weather glow in the heart of winter up north.
