Sailing course for beginners: 8 Lessons in Syracuse

You never tried a sailing experience and think that time has arrived?
Sicilying has arranged a sailing course for beginners. The aim is to teach you how to manage an offshore boat on the high seas.
The course, divided in 8 lessons (at least 2 lessons per week), will take place on-and-off board.
You will attend short lectures, practice manoeuvres exercises, and at the end you will be awarded with the IVF diploma. 


Upon booking you will have to choose the first lesson. The next ones will be agreed with the school .

Program schedule
- The hull: different types of hulls and its components. 

Equipment and manoeuvres: mast, rigging, cables, nodes, blocks and tackles. 
The wing: parts of the wing, wing shape, the reef, running rigging, types of wings.
Terminology: rest and luff, upwind and downwind, tack and gybe, starboard tack and left, tacking. 

Point of sails: In irons, close hauled, reaching, running downwind

Managing a sail boat: control of the wings, buoyancy control, ship stirring control. 

Manoeuvres: hauling the wind, bearing away, tacking and gybe.

So, book now! This experience is just waiting for you!