ASA-Courses, Chartering, Try-Before-You-Buy

Immerse yourself in the sailing lifestyle...

• Try before you buy... • ASA Sailing Courses • Charter (With or without a captain)

Gain your experience on boats set up like private boats, privately managed at your favorite sailing destination.

We'll pay for your experience! Ask about our Try-Before-You-Buy program...

Try before you buy

If you're not familiar with our boats, we offer a Try-Before-You-Buy experience before you make a final decision. You can try any of our new, Jeanneaus or Fountaine Pajot catamarans at participating bases. Try it just to try it, or make Try-before-you-buy a part of your charter or ASA course. This approach offers an ideal way to actually live-aboard the boat you're considering for up to 3 days--on us. In addition to experiencing the boat, our customers report that this is a great way to help decide on options they want to add, or don't need at all.

Try our boats. Meet our friendly people. Learn about different sailing areas. Our goal is to make it easy and show you what we can do for you.

Above is a highlighted look at your choices. Click https://www.atlantic-cruising.com/?attachment_id=6766 to get your copy of your free Try-before-you-buy certificate.

Charter or take a course, we're all of the places you want to be...

• New England (Newport) • The Chesapeake (Annapolis) • Florida

o St. Pete o Key West (With trips to Cuba) o Ft. Lauderdale

• Bahamas (Abacos and Exumas) • Virgin Islands (U.S. & BVI) With a base in St. Martin

ASA (Live-aboard) Sailing Courses and Chartering...

We offer the full range of sailing courses at most of our affiliate bases. ASA is the world-wide, recognized standard for learning to sail, or getting certified to charter a boat. Generally you take up to 4 courses to get certified for chartering.

This is a program similar to learning to fly. You get checked out on each level, and your new skills get added to your log book. You can audit earlier courses if you already have some experience.

With our approach, you start by forming your own group, or joining one of ours. You actually stay aboard the boat full time during your course. So it's a vacation. A sailing course. A chance to see how the boat "lives". All in one. At the end of the day, this is a better more meaningful experience that actually costs less than staying at a resort hotel and going out on a day-sailor.

ASA shows first courses on a smaller boat, but you can do them on our live-aboard cruising boats as well. You can start at one base and finish at a different base--the choices are yours.

Typically you can take course 1-3 in a weekend, or 5 day during the week. And the final charter ready course over a separate weekend. It is possible to do all 4 in a week if you're ambitious. You can organize your own group, or join one of ours.

ASA 101, Basic Keelboat Sailing

Learn to skipper a 20' - 27' sloop-rigged keelboat by day, in light to moderate winds

and sea conditions. Learn basic sailing terminology, parts and functions, helm

commands, basic sail trim, points of sail, buoyage, seamanship and safety including

basic navigation rules to avoid collisions and hazards.

Suggested boats Jeanneau 34-41

ASA 103, Basic Coastal Cruising

Learn to skipper a sloop-rigged auxiliary powered

25'-35' keelboat by day in moderate winds and sea

conditions. Learn cruising sailboat terminology, basic

boat systems, auxiliary engine operation, docking

procedures, intermediate sail trim, navigation rules,

basic coastal navigation, anchoring, weather, safety

and seamanship.

Suggested boats Jeanneau 34-41 Possibly catamaran.

Alternatively, you could do 103 and 104 on a separate weekend on a catamaran

or larger Jeanneau

ASA 104, Bareboat Cruising

Learn how to sail a sloop-rigged, auxiliary powered

30'-45' sailboat during a multi-day cruise upon inland/coastal waters in moderate/heavy

winds and sea conditions. Learn about provisioning, boat systems, auxiliary engines,

advanced sail trim, coastal navigation, anchoring / mooring, docking, emergency

operations, weather, and more. Any of the Jeanneau or Fountaine Pajot catamarans of

interest

ASA 114, Cruising Catamaran

Learn to skipper an auxiliary-powered sailing cruising

catamaran of approximately 30-45' feet in length during

a multi-day liveaboard cruise upon inland or coastal

waters in moderate to heavy winds (up to 30 knots) and

sea conditions. Fountaine Pajot Catamarans 40-50'

Works with any base and any of our catamarans 40-50'

Later, you can take more advanced courses in docking, offshore navigation or even be on your way to getting a professional Skippers license.

• Chartering • We offer virtually all of the new boats we offer for sale, at Associate

Bases. Each base offers a full range of services including: • Captains (For fun, or ASA certifications)

• Provisioning • Many offer Kayaks, or paddle boards, snorkels or dive excursions, and everything you can

imagine for a totally fun experience.

Our boats are not typical charter boats.

They're equipped with all of the live-aboard equipment you would expect on a boat you might own. (Some equipment may be limited by size)

• Full electronics with autopilot and chart plotter blue toothed to your smart phone or pad

• Air conditioning, and in most cases, generator and upgraded electrical system with inverter.

• All the comfort and convenience features from full cockpit bimini and cushions, to electric refrigeration and gas stoves and ovens with microwaves, barbecue grill, fresh linens and everything to make your boat feel like

home.

NOTE: Please check the inventory sheet for the specific equipment on the boat you're considering.

Now, after trying one out, maybe you'll find yourself in the position of considering owning a boat. Of course we offer new and used boats for private owners, but actually, a majority of our clients find our Business Yacht Ownership approach the least expensive way to own a boat, while making their lives "Less taxing".

Business Yacht Ownership®...

We invented the concept back in the 70's and have helped over 1,000 people fulfill their goals of "Owning for less". We place private boats with private management companies. You choose:

• The layout and equipment • How much you want to use the boat • Where you want to keep it, and how long you want to stay in the program.

Many people use this approach to build equity towards their ultimate retirement boat. By setting your boat up as a business, you can qualify for the active tax advantages. With this approach, you don't need to charter so much to break even or build equity, and maintenance is facilitated at the level of private boats, not charter boats.

Learn more https://www.atlantic-cruising.com/business-yacht-ownership/

Resources:

• ASA organization details...( https://asa.com/ ) • Booking a course or charter. (http://cruise-annapolis.com/ )You can book at any of our

destinations through our home office in Annapolis. Ask for Darlene Santarmes or Jules Dickinson 443-203-411 X4440

• Short video for our Annapolis base—(https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=2cbgG3JXHLQ)

Courses and chartering.

We do weekly webinars, and offer recorded webinars on this program, below.

Eric Smith

Senior Sales Consultant, Partner eric.smith@atlantic-cruising.com 410-703-5655 More from Eric >> https://www.atlantic-cruising.com/eric.smith Boat Business Webinars, Videos, Blogs, Learning center and more.

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