Take a look at a March copy of Cruising World or Sail magazine.  They are both celebrating big milestones like we are. SAIL is now 40 years old and Cruising World is over 30 (need to look up the exact year); we are in our 46th year. Both magazines have been bought and sold many times over their tenures, but remain two of the most reliable and important books out there when it comes to sailing.

I found out about sailing by taking a job at Yachting magazine on 44th between 5th and 6th in New York City.  My first day in the office my boss (Bob Bavier, ad director and winner of the 1964 America’s Cup) dictated a letter full of sailing terms with a pipe in his mouth. Does anyone reading this blog remember Dictaphones? All kinds of new words and thoughts reached my brain that day, and I couldn’t wait to learn how to sail. When I asked where to go to learn, everyone said there’s only one school: Steve Colgate’s sailing school.  And so the saga began.

Offshore Sailing School is proud of our 46 continuous year of teaching sailing under the same name and with the same owners/management team but even more proud of the more than 115,000 individuals who are now graduates of at least one of our courses: Learn to Sail, Fast Track to Cruising®, Bareboat Cruising Preparation, Live Aboard Cruising, Coastal and Offshore Passage Making, Performance Sailing and Racing, Coastal or Celestial Navigation, a Sailing Lesson or short introductory Learn to Sail course, or perhaps a refresher course.

If you are one of our grads but are not in this new ad, we would LOVE to add you to our next series.  I have thousands of testimonials written by grads, but not a lot of photos to go with them. With today’s technology I KNOW you are taking pictures of each other during our courses.

To get into the ad we need pretty good resolution, but we can also post you on our blog here and upcoming MY OFFSHORE section on www.offshoresailing.com. Send us what you’ve got – sailing and having a lot of fun doing it, during one of our courses, on a charter or your own or a friend’s boat after taking our course. We’d love to see it.

Happy sailing!

Doris Colgate, CEO and President

Larry Lohmann too Live Aboard Cruising in the British Virgin Islands with his wife in 2009	Fast Track to Cruising grads – The McCallians – father and son	Jessie took Fast Track To Cruising in the British Virgin Islands and came to Florida to help us with our DVD several years later
The Forlinis took Fast Track to Cruising and then set sail around the world with their two sons	The Nugents took Learn to Sail and Bareboat Cruising Preparation at The Inn at Perry Cabin in St. Michaels, MD	Melinda Long has taken just about every course we offer - says sailing is her favorite getaway

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