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BASIC KEELBOAT INSTRUCTION

Long Beach Sailing is the premier sailing club on Alamitos Bay to offer Keelboat Instruction for beginners. Our course encourages an  individualized pace rather than constraining you to weekly course schedules. Training includes: boat preparation, engine review, docking, raising and trimming sails (including reefing techniques), anchoring, man-overboard and emergency procedures, as well as boating etiquette and rules. 

 The course is 5 sessions on 5 different boats totaling 20 hours on the water.  The price of $525 is less than the cost of chartering the same vessels for the same time periods!  We use the same text as the ASA certified schools, and our training group includes a 50 ton Merchant Marine Captain with open ocean delivery experience. 

Our students have gone directly from our course to Caribbean bareboat chartering, with only the comment made upon return being that they were "surprised" at how easy it was to sail a 50 footer. 

THE CRUISING SAILBOAT

With the addition of the CT-47 our club has been able to add a unique course designed to help prepare people for cruising as well as bareboat charters in distant locations.  With this $595 advanced course, we add on to the basic course with training on a multi-masted vessel, with exceptional modern electronic equipment, a session at night, and finally an open water trip to Catalina and back is part of the course. 

This $595 course has 5 sessions on the water and includes: primary systems review and preparation, multiple masted sail trimming, windlass operation, autopilot operation, radar and GPS operation, chart plotting, logging, and night sailing. 

 

CUSTOM SAILING INSTRUCTION 

In addition to Basic Keelboat Instruction and The Cruising Sailboat, Long Beach Sailing offers Advanced Sailing Instruction which covers: sail trim and shape, advanced anchoring techniques, heavy weather sailing, and more.

Advanced Sailing Instruction.....$45 per hour (2 hour minimum)

 

Long Beach Sailing Club - Alamitos Bay Landing - 182 Marina Drive - Long Beach California 90803 - (562) 430-5514