Sail Training Expeditions

"Sailing is an adventure!"

Offshore sailing skills

We provide you the perfect opportunity to master your offshore sailing skills in a safe and secure environment while learning the art of “leaving a clean wake”. A catamaran voyage is more than a catamaran rental.

• Considering making the switch to a catamaran?
• Considering a catamaran voyage?
• Want to build sailing confidence?
• Want to buy a catamaran?
• Curious about what a stress free sea passage could be like?

Take a sailing trip aboard Mariah, a luxury Catana 582 and see what a catamaran voyage could be like.

Scott Fratcher and Allison Thompson are lifelong cruising sailors and key members of Team Earthrace (holder of the round the world circumnavigation record).

We use our 58ft magnificent Catana 582 catamaran as a training ground to help tune the skills of sailors the world over. Weather your skills are beginning or expert spending a week or a month sailing with our experienced team will help hone your skills and help build confidence.

We specialize in teaching families the skills of working as a team.

Learn the basics of:

• Sail handling
• Take a catamaran voyage
• Reefing
• Use of lee boards
• Storm management
• Setting a drogue and a para anchor
• Running a compass course
• Dead reckoning
• Gain valuable RYA sea miles or make an Ocean qualifying passage
• Learn Celestial Navigation
• Let us coach you on blind navigation
• Learn to safely going aloft
  
  A Catana 582 can motor at a high velocity. This speed allows us to use our Catana 582 as a speedboat gaining experience as both a sail and power vessel

Sail training, the real experience

Sail training is not a charter. Sail training crew area expected to fulfill the role of a regular crew member. This includes

• Helping with sail handling,
• Standing watches,
• Setting courses,
• Catamaran voyaging
• Meal preparation
• Clean up, and
• All other activities that help keep the vessel safe while on passage.

"We make any sail into an adventure"

"Come have a sailing yacht vacation aboard our Catana 582, Mariah"