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Instructor Certifications
  Basic Keelboat Instructor
  Cruising Instructor
  Coastal Passage Making Instructor

 

Instructor Certifications

Instructors at US SAILING Schools are all US SAILING certified professionals. They possess outstanding seamanship and communication skills and are trained in the US SAILING teaching method.

To become a US SAILING Instructor, a candidate must be a confident and competent sailor able to sail anywhere in the U.S. and handle the vast range of situations and different models of boats encountered in sailing courses. It requires practice, study and preparation by even the most gifted and experienced professional instructors.

Learn more about the standards instructors have to meet before they can teach in the US SAILING Keelboat Certification System:

Basic Keelboat

Basic Keelboat Instructor
Teach students to sail to sail a basic 18 - 27' sailboat with a ballasted keel and tiller steering

Basic Cruising

Cruising Instructor
Become certified to teach Basic Cruising, Bareboat Cruising, and Coastal Navigation

Coastal Passage Making

Coastal Passage Making Instructor
become certified to teach a course designed for longer coastal passage making circumstances, night-time navigation, fog situations, watch rotations, radar use, and more

 

 
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