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Conference unifix::sailing

Title:	SAILING
Notice:	Please read Note 2.* before participating in this conference
Moderator:	UNIFIX::BERENS

Created:	Wed Jul 01 1992
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2299
Total number of notes:	20724

1595.0. "Help to find school?" by AKOV13::BILLINGS () Fri Sep 07 1990 14:10

    Some time ago I seem to remember hearing of a sailing school in the
    Boston area that offers classes in early summer specifically for women,
    taught by women.  I may have even read about it in this file.
    
    Anyway, I mentioned it to a friend recently, who is extremely
    interested and of course asked for name, phone or other info, none of
    which I could deliver.
    
    I have searched Learning_To_Sail, read most of the notes over again and
    done searches on Lessons, Women, Classes, all to no avail.
    
    At this point my eyes have glazed over, and I'm wondering if anyone
    knows or can remember the name of the school, a specific note in which
    it is mentioned, or anything else that would help.
    
    My eyes will thank you profusely, as will I.
    
    Thanks,
    Roger

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1595.1	Seen at Newport Boat Show	CHECK::DGUNN	Dale C. Gunn, Corp Conf Group, MRO3-3/N17, 297-5476	`Mon Sep 10 1990 13:44`	13
	I was at the Newport International Boat Show over the weekend and walked past at least 3 boothes of organizations aimed at providing sailing instruction specifically geared to women. I think I picked up some literature from at least one of them. I'll try to locate it at home and post the info here. Also, you might pickup any good sailing magazine, i.e., SAIL, Cruising World, Sailing, Sailing World, etc. and look in the back classified sections. Dale
1595.2		MSCSSE::BERENS	Alan Berens	`Mon Sep 10 1990 14:04`	4
	You may be thinking of Womanship. They advertise in Cruising World (maybe in the classified sections) and possibly elsewhere. The WoodenBoat School has in the past had learn-to-sail classes for women only.
1595.3	Couldn't Find Any Around NE	AKOV11::GYOUNG	Dancin' at the Zombie Zoo	`Mon Sep 10 1990 14:07`	21
	I was looking for a woman's sailing program last winter as a gift for my wife. I searched through SAIL and this file and came up with the following ...... there is no woman's sailing program available in New England at a reasonable price. Womanship and Women for Sail are both geared specifically for women; taught by women ...... one's out of Annapolis and the other is out of Florida. They offer week-long courses for about $1000 ..... the Steve Colgate Sailing School offers a women-only course out of Chatham in the early summer .... also about $1000. In lieu of this route, I enrolled my wife in the Boston Sailing Center program .....Learn to Sail course. I had previously attended the same program and thought it was very helpful. She went for two consecutive weekends in May ..... and she enrolled a friend to attend with her. Learned a lot and had a great time. Hope this helps. Greg
1595.4	Check the Sunday Globe	VICKI::MILNE		`Mon Sep 10 1990 15:49`	7
	This Sunday's Globe (9/9), featured an article in the Travel Section about a woman's only sailing school based out of New London Conn. Sorry I don't remember the name of the school. Mary Ellen
1595.5	Thank you to all	AKOV13::BILLINGS		`Mon Sep 17 1990 14:01`	16
	Thank you all for input/references/etc. Was able to track down Womanship in Annapolis (which was what I had in mind when my memory failed), and for the information of whoever else might have some interest, they do offer courses in the New England area. Base in N.E. is Long Island Sound, from whence most of their courses appear to start. In addition to some day programs (L.I. area) they do offer several multi-day overnight courses, Cape Cod area and Maine in specific. Of course, forgot to bring address and phone number to post this note, but will be glad to add if anyone interested. (That old CRS is beginning to attack the memory lobes!). Again, thanks to all.