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Advanced Cruising
Advanced Cruising will prepare you to make longer passages, using more advanced boats like our J44.
$1,900
The course format is four 3-hr lessons on Monday to Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 9:30 to cover systems and navigation, followed by a 5-day Monday to Friday cruise, for over 70 hours of instruction.
Five-Day Cruise
The cruise will include open water sailing outside of Long Island Sound. Each student will enter and leave at least two different harbors at night, and 4-5 harbors in daylight, along with assisting the other students with 8-10 nighttime landfalls, and 20-25 daytime landfalls. Going in and out of unfamiliar harbors is generally the most stressful part about cruising.
We typically leave from Norwalk, and run in and out of many of the Connecticut harbors, like Southport, Black Rock, Bridgeport, Milford, and Branford, ending up in the Thimble Islands – at the end of Day One. That evening, we continue harbor hopping up the Connecticut coast in the dark, ending up near Old Saybrook.
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Our superb J44, Monhegan, is one of the finest performance sailing vessels ever built.
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Day Two starts with a final run of daytime harbor hops up to the Noank / Fishers Island area. We typically stop at Block Island by dinner, then head out to Cutty Hunk. Day Three starts with the tour of Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands, with mandatory stops at Tarpaulin Cove, Quicks Hole, and the always exciting passage through the much feared, and rightly so, Woods Hole. By the end of Day Three, we are typically off Cape Cod, heading north to Maine for our long overnight passage. On the afternoon of Day Four, we are off what many consider one of the worlds finest cruising grounds, Mid-Coast Maine. We spend a day cruising the Maine coast, then, by Day Five, we pull into Falmouth Foreside, Maine.
Naturally, the schedule will be adjusted based on the weather and class, and the final day of cruising the Maine coast sometimes is shortened, but no matter what, you will come out of the course much better prepared than when you started. You will have reefed, docked, navigated in the daytime and dark, and captained one of the most highly regarded performance cruising yachts more times than you can imagine, under the capable direction of Martin and Wayne.
Food, US Sailing Coastal Passagemaking Certification, a log book, and a certificate good for a 10% discount on your first charter or initial membership with us is included.
You must have US Sailing's Coastal Navigation and Bareboat certification for US Sailing Certification. However, we require only Navigation and Basic Cruising to take the course. See the US Sailing standards for a more detailed look at what is covered. We review and build on what is learned in our Navigation, Basic Cruising, and Bareboat classes..
Topics include:
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Inspecting the boat, rigging and systems, going aloft |
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Man overboard drills with a Life Sling |
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Diesel servicing, emergency starting, bleeding the fuel system, changing an impeller |
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Trip planning, supplies & provisioning |
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Weather forecasting, planning crew jobs |
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Lightning, storm preparations |
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Navigation, dead reckoning, bearings |
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Preparing for 20-40 knots of wind |
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GPS, autopilot, radar & computer use |
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Different anchoring techniques |
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Advanced sail shape controls |
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Storing and deploying a dinghy |
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Single line docking, bow, stern in & alongside |
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Night, poor visibility navigation |
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203 838-1110 · 54 Beach Road, Norwalk, CT 06855 · info@soundsailingcenter.com
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