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Sailing Lessons - Edmonton & Area
Welcome to a beautiful day of sailing on the 'healing waters' of Lac St. Anne, just 40 minutes west of Edmonton, Alberta. Our sailing lessons are tailored to your individual skill level. If you have always been interested in learning how to sail but have never sailed before and want to find out if sailing is something you would like, then our half day introductory sailing course is ideal. 
Edmonton and area, now's your chance to learn how to sail without paying the high cost many entry level sailing courses. We will discuss boat safety, parts of a sailboat, basic sailing theory all with the view of getting you on the water and sailing as quickly as we can. Once on the water our certified sailing instructor will have you at the helm and sailing in the first 15 minutes. You will learn the points of sail, how to tack and gybe properly, heave to and recover a COB (crew overboard). You can learn to sail by yourself or you can bring someone along to join you at no extra charge. You can learn to sail on one of our boats or, if you are in the Edmonton area and have your own sail boat and would like private sailing lessons, we can arrange to teach you on your own boat. Our fleet of boats consists of a 22' Catalina (click photo above), 17' Oday, 16' Hobie Cat, 13' Chrysler Pirateer and a 13' Enterprise. If you are an experienced sailor and just want to go sailing for an afternoon, rent or charter one of our sailboats. Take a 1/2 day sailboat charter on your choice of a 13' Chrysler Pirateer, 13' Enterprise, 16' Hobie Cat or on our 17' O'Day sailboats.
CYA Learn to Cruise Certification
Learn to sail and obtain your Canadian Yachting Association (CYA) Learn
to Cruise (LTC) certification under the
instruction of our CYA LTC instructor. The CYA LTC certification
verifies that the successful graduate is able to cruise in familiar
waters and to act as both a skipper and capable crew member on a sloop
rigged sailboat of 6 to 10 meters in length in moderate wind and sea
conditions.
This is a 4 day course conducted over two weekends. Next course starts
on July 9th - we currently have 3 spots available. For more information
please see CYA - Learn to Cruise
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Advanced Sail Trimming Course For those who already sail, we offer a half day advanced sail trimming course to help you get the most out of your boat. Topics covered include sail shape, angle of wind entry, drag, lift, camber, draft, twist, mast rake, backstay tension. How to control sail shape, point of draft and draft depth with the outhaul, halyards, Cunningham, down haul. How to control sail twist with the mainsheet traveler, jib sheet leads, boom vang, leech line, main sheet and jib sheets at different points of sail in light to strong winds. You will also learn the correct positioning of the draft point on the headsail and mainsail and how moving the draft point changes the Center of Effort (CE) in relation to the Center of Lateral Resistance (CLR) and how this affects boat speed, weather and lee helm.
Sailing Lesson Gift Certificates We are now offering gift certificates for half day sailing lessons - give the gift of sailing and join in the fun.
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