Learn How To Sail - Course Description

This class is designed to provide the essential foundation of sailing skills. Our five-day Learn How to Sail class helps you get started, or builds upon previous basic experience. Using the modern J/80 as our teaching platform, we begin on Monday with basic boat-handling and terminology, and finish on Friday by flying along with the spinnaker up!

This course is extremely comprehensive. We spend more time on the water in one day than many schools do in an entire class. And with a maximum of four sailors per boat, all attendees are certain to receive plenty of personal attention. Participants gain extensive hand-on experience, building the sailing skills knowledge to pursue sailing endeavors on their own, with confidence.

Confidence through Competence

Without question, this is the ultimate course for learning to sail. If you are going to invest the time and the money, make sure you get the most of both, so that you can get the most out of sailing. Our J World curriculum, continually refined in over 24 years of teaching sailors, far exceeds any other schools' or organizations' criteria for 'basic' level sailing courses. Topics include:

Terminology
Points of sail
Tacking and gybing
Sail shape & trim
Seamanship skills, including:
- Reefing
- Heaving-To
- Crew-Overboard Recovery
- Docking Under Sail
- Anchoring
- Mooring

Sailing dynamics
Yacht design essentials
Nomenclature
Knots
Reading the wind
Safety practices and equipment
Tides and currents
Basic navigation
Rules of the road
Spinnaker fundamentals

Our ultimate goal in this class is that by Friday each student feels competent skippering a small keelboat without instructor input. If the five day program doesn't fit into your schedule check out our Learn to Sail in 3 Weekends course.

More time sailing. More course days. Exceptional boats. Phenomenal instructors. But don't just take our word for it. Click here to read some of our customers testimonials, or click here to read why we have been selected as the "Best in the Business" for over 16 years running!

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Learn How to Sail - Requirements

No previous experience necessary. This course is also appropriate for those who have some experience, but are not comfortable sailing on their own.

Learn How To Sail - Certification Available

The J World Learn to Sail course includes the US Sailing Basic Keelboat certification, as well as a US Sailing Logbook, and a one year membership to US Sailing.

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The Performance Sailing School, J World San Francisco Bay

J World's Guarantee
We are confident J World will exceed your expectations. But if, for any reason, it does not and you are dissatisfied with the course you have taken, you may retake it tuition free. We at J World, all share your desire to improve your sailing performance. That's absolutely guaranteed.

We spend more time actually sailing than any other school... six hours per day on the boat!

Learn How To Sail - Course Description

Learn How to Sail - Requirements

Learn How To Sail - Certification Available The J World Learn to Sail course includes the US Sailing Basic Keelboat certification, as well as a US Sailing Logbook, and a one year membership to US Sailing.

Learn How To Sail - Certification Available

The J World Learn to Sail course includes the US Sailing Basic Keelboat certification, as well as a US Sailing Logbook, and a one year membership to US Sailing.