Intermediate Cruising Liveaboard Course
Take our Basic Cruising Course in a condensed liveaboard format! PROVISONS INCLUDED
Learn from a certified Sail Canada Instructor
Courses taught from Prince Edward County or Kingston area (Bath)
We sail a 2011 Bavaria 36
2 Private Cabins for 2 couples or 2 singles
Class size will never exceed 4 people
Online coaching and ongoing support
Sail Canada Textbook
Certification and logbook
Learn to cruise on our modern Bavaria 36 with almost all the comforts of home. Explore eastern Lake Ontario while learning to sail with one of our certified Sail Canada instructors. You will have a comfortable private cabin for the entire course. Learn to sail, ship's systems, cooking and handling emergencies. This course will give you the confidence to begin a lifelong journey as a newly certified skipper! The price includes 2 certifications, cabin fees and food. (alcohol not included).
Intermediate Cruising Standard
This live-aboard Standard follows the Basic Cruising Standard in the Sail Canada keelboat and cruising training
system. Students will participate in operation of the vessel as crew and as skipper. The vessel will be operated under
sail and power while making daytime passages. The ability to act as skipper and crew in operation of a sailing vessel
by day in unfamiliar waters will be developed, while building the skills and experience needed for live-aboard
cruises and bareboat charter.
Practical topics covered include sail selection and use of the jib cars and mainsheet traveler controls to adjust sail
shape for efficient propulsion and balance in the conditions encountered. Students will have the opportunity to
practice and develop skills maneuvering the vessel under power for mooring pickup, and accomplishing various
anchoring strategies and enhanced docking and dock departure techniques and procedures. Opportunities to practice
the navigation skills taught in the Basic Coastal Navigation course including elementary pilotage and passage
planning, non-electronic position determination methods and basic use of satellite positioning systems will help to
strengthen this knowledge and skillset. Practical knowledge of the use and management of vessel systems will be
taught through use of these systems on board while cruising.
Skills developed in this standard may be applied in vessels up to 15 meters in length. A course leading to this
Standard builds on the skills developed in courses leading to the Sail Canada Start Keelboat Sailing, Basic Cruising
and Basic Coastal Navigation standards. Candidates are expected to be able to competently demonstrate the skills
developed in those courses.
It is envisioned that the program will be taught in a minimum five days in a live-aboard format A challenge of the
practical component of the standard may be accomplished through a 48-hour live-aboard skill evaluation.
Cancellation and Payment Policy
Final payments will be charged 2 weeks prior to departure
Deposits will become transferrable credits (non-expiring) 7 days prior to sailing if a cancellation is made within that week period
If a sailing is cancelled due to unsafe weather by Happy Sailing, a postponement, a credit or a full refund will be issued depending on guest request.
If a sailing is cancelled by a passenger where there are no unsafe conditions, the deposit and final payment will become a transferrable credit