Sailing Adventure Program
You pick your trip dates, your group can book one, two, three or four sailboats and we'll tailor a trip for you! This is our most popular program and many groups combine this with a half-day Discover Scuba excursion to introduce their Scouts to the underwater world with instruction from a professional Dive Master. The Sailing Adventure Program teaches a wide range of basic sailing skills and general seamanship.
Trip Timing and Duration
Your trip will last 6 days and will either start on a Sunday, Tuesday or Thursday, returning to dock as late as is practical on the day prior to your scheduled flight home. You will spend your last night onboard at the dock. So, if your trip commences at 10:00hrs on a Sunday, you will return to dock on the following Friday and your trip will end the next day, Saturday at 10:00hrs.
Your trip will also be packed full of other great activities including awesome snorkeling, swimming, fishing, beachcombing and shelling, fun shore visits to numerous island settlements where you can also hire bicycles and/or golf carts.
What you do
It's normal for you to sail twice a day. Most crews don't want to sail for longer than a few hours in the morning and afternoon. We make sure everyone enjoys their learning experience and most crews prefer some variety to their day, you might want to swim and snorkel, you may prefer to do some fishing and maybe also a shore visit to one of the islands. The paragraphs below will give you an idea of the skills you should expect to learn during your trip:
What you learn
When you take part in our Sailing Adventure Program you will be provided with informal instruction and guidance in a range of sailing areas, including but not limited to the following:
- How to prepare the sailboat for sailing
- How to use a winch safely to firm-up or ease-off sheets on the sails
- How to raise the sails, set/trim them properly and lower them
- Basic Points of Sail and how to achieve them
- Basic rope-work, coiling, cleating & knot tying
- Basic ‘Rules of the Road’
- How to helm responsibly under power and sail
- Knowledge of nautical terminology, basic parts of the boat, rigging and sails
- Basic chartwork using GPS for position, course and hazards to avoid!
You will develop your communication skills, you will learn more about working as a team member, you will learn numerous new skills that will require you to plan and prepare in advance of sailing exercises. In addition to the above skills, you will learn how to live onboard a sailboat as well as being able to complete various Merit Badges! You will experience traveling to a foreign country and an introduction to island life.
Cost: $600 per person; this includes all meals onboard. Please Note: our prices will increase to $675 on Oct 1st 2010
If you wish to find out what previous crews thought of their trips with Sail School Bahamas please go to our Testimonials page. If you would like to get in touch with Adult Leaders who have sailed with us, simply send us an email and we’ll arrange the rest for you!
