“Live 105” on Zoom!  Real, interactive course with an instructor and other students.  An NYSC exclusive!  Plus, in-person classes in Manhattan and Brooklyn.  More below.

Next schedules:

Manhattan (UWS), 2 full days: February 8 & 9 with lunch (and coffee) breaks.

Zoom, weeknights: February 5, 12, 26 & March 5 (skips Pres Week); Wednesdays.

Read on for more about the course! There’s a sign-up window below. Contact us with questions, or if you can’t make the posted dates.

“Because running aground sucks…”

Over 50 Years of our family giving you more of what you go to sailing school for!^SM

Already learned how to sail? Or, didn’t, but want to do something sailing related now? Take our Start Navigating ^SM  course and learn Coastal Navigation! Live, online, with an instructor and other students.  No experience necessary!  Fun, easier than you think – and we minimize the math!  Learn ASA 105 certification and be better prepared to rent a sailing yacht here or abroad. Just need a tune-up? We do that too.

Start Navigating ^SM  is our coastal navigation course (ASA 105).  You’ll learn the traditional art and science of piloting and near-shore coastal navigation, from chart basics to taking bearings & fixes, plotting courses, “dead” reckoning, correcting for current, etc.  Captains Cook and Columbus relied heavily on dead reckoning for their explorations, and it’s still the basis for navigation today!  But don’t worry – to modernize things somewhat, we’ll also introduce you to GPS (Global Positioning System), the standard for electronic navigation.  We just won’t let you over-rely on it.

Who’s this for? Anyone interested in it.  You don’t have to be strong in math – we like to “plot the path without the math” ourselves!  No sailing or navigation experience necessary.

Tuition: In-person courses are $475. Zoom courses are $395. In both cases, that’s all-inclusive. (We don’t like surprises and assume you don’t too.)

Zoom sessions are like a normal in-person class: you’re with an instructor and other students, learning from their questions as well as yours, and with us watching you do your plotting after we show you how.  Except… you don’t have to travel to get to it!  It’s not a home study course, or interactive with software.  But, it is an NYSC exclusive: no one else is offering this.  It’s truly live – not Memorex.  Just another way we give you MORE.

Zoom sessions are short; no more than a few hours at a time and always with a break.  Most schedules are weekday evenings; we sometimes do a weekend morning. In-person sessions are full weekend days with lunch and beverage breaks.

Just need a tune-up?  No problem.  Ask us about this and we’ll advise what works based on your situation and needs, which could be just one relevant session for a smaller tuition.

Quick stats…

• soup-to-nuts: from reading a chart to finding your way in pea soup fog
• real course (not just self help) with lots of realistic practice problems
• one-weekend or 4-weeknight schedules in person or on Zoom
• no sailing experience necessary
• highest quality charts and tools supplied by us and kept by you
• text book authored by our Director, Captain Stephen Glenn Card
• leads to ASA 105 Coastal Navigation certification

Start NavigatingSM  is fun, challenging and rewarding.  We mostly schedule it in the ‘off’ season of November through March so as not to compete with your sailing time, but still offer some boating season schedules.  The exam is lengthy and a bit difficult, but don’t worry – our students usually score 90 or even higher – which is what Instructors need to become certified to teach it!  Just another way we give you MORE.

Ready to do this?  View schedules, then choose the course format and hit the yellow button to add to cart and check out with credit/debit card or PayPal. (Nb: viewing schedules doesn’t load one automatically into the optional field – must be typed or pasted.)

Questions first?  Contact us.

Need to just ‘test out’ to get your piece of paper?   You can do a ‘challenge’ of the ASA 105 standard for a fraction of the time and price of the whole course.  Contact us to discuss whether this makes sense for you.