AusSea Sailing School offers a wide range of courses to suit everyone’s needs and budgets. We are a Yachting Australia accredited school and only work with the best Yachting Australia instructors.
Intro Sail
An Intro Sail is a fantastic way to get a taste for sailing and learn the basics of sailing. Come and join us for a fun and safe sail of three hours on Botany Bay, the best waters in Sydney for training. We’ll be sailing on a J24, the biggest racing keel yacht class in the world.
Duration: 1 session of 3 hours After completion: The start of a new career, that of a skipper? What to bring: shoes with white soles, hat, sunny mood, water, sun screen, jacket. Cost: $75 What now? Have you caught the sailing bug? Time to get serious with the Keelboat Crew Course. If you book a course in the same week of your Intro Sail we’ll refund the $75 you spend on the Intro Sail.
Keelboat Crew
This course provides a good introduction to sailing and also gives students the chance to participate in practice sessions for 3 months after course completion. You’ll receive a starting pack with this course – a logbook and the YA training book ‘Introductory Keelboat’. On completion you will have good and basic boat handling skills and be able to sail a figure of eight or a triangular course under instruction.
Duration: 4 sessions of 3 hours & practice sessions for 3 months After completion: Certificate of Course Completion, logbook signed off. Cost: $545 What now? Keelboat Helm Course – book two courses at the same time for only $990, a discount of $100!
Keelboat Helm
After this course you’ll be able to skipper a small keel yacht safely on inshore waters. You are aware of hazards and know how to avoid them, you can retrieve a person overboard safely, can heave to, can reef and shake out reefs whilst underway, can steer a boat with only the sails, can pick up moorings under sail and know how to sail backwards.
Duration: 4 sessions of 3 hours, practice sessions for 3 months after course completion & twilight race (in summer) After completion: Certificate of Completion & logbook signed off. Cost: $545 What now? Time for some serious fun – the Spinnaker Course. Book all 3 courses in one package for $1,395 and receive a discount of $240!
Keelboat Spinnaker
Have you finished the Keelboat Courses and would you like to get the blood pumping? Then it’s time for some serious fun and excitement with our Keelboat Spinnaker Course. During two full days you’ll learn how to pack, rig, hoist and drop a symetric and an asymetric spinnaker, how to gybe a kite and what’s it like to be part of a racing crew. During the last session we’ll actually take part in a spinnaker race to put everything we’ve learned into practise. This course runs monthly and can also be given on your own yacht to train with your own crew.
Duration: 2 sessions of 6 hours, spinnaker race included on the last day. After completion: Logbook signed off. What to bring: sailing gloves, hat, some courage, water, sun screen, good shoes. Cost: $545 What now? Keelboat Racing Crew Course might be the next step if you want to know all the ins and outs of racing.
Keelboat Racing Crew
This course is to learn the knitty gritty of inshore/offshore yacht racing. After this course you’ll understand ‘Start’ and ‘Finish’ procedures, including flag and sound signals, understands the basic courses and basic rules of racing. You’ll also learn the finer point of trimming, sail shape, hiking and you’ll be competent in each crew position during pre-start procedure, (roll) tacking, gybing and windward and leeward mark roundings. Working as a useful crew member is the aim of this course.
Duration: 4 sessions of 3 hours (first three hours in class room and two sessions on race day)After completion? Logbook signed off Cost: $545 (course material included) Save: $100 if you book the Keelboat Spinnaker and Racing Crew at the same time!
Keelboat Seamanship
If racing is not your thing, but you would like to further your sailing skills then the Keelboat Seamanship course is designed for you. After this course you’ll know how to prepare for a tow, you can handle a boat in confined spaces, come to and weigh anchor under sail, know what actions to be taken in the event of major gear failure, handle a boat under power, interpretation weather forecast and patterns.
Duration: 4 sessions of 3 hours After completion? Logbook signed off Cost: $545 Save: $ 240 if you book Keelboat Crew, Keelboat Helm and Keelboat Seamanship at the same time (only $1,395 instead of $1,635)!
What now? Bareboat Skipper Course or one of the other specialist courses AusSea Sailing School has got on offer. Please call us on (02) 9592 3565 to tell about your sailing goals and we’ll help you to get there fast & safely!
