Certification: ASA 101 Basic Keelboat

Prerequisites: None

New to the helm or coming back after a break? This course teaches the essentials that matter most: trim, tacks, gybes, docking, rules, and practical safety. It’s the ideal first step for ASA certification and progression to 103 and 104.

If you’re already comfortable navigating and docking on your own or chasing overnight runs, choose the higher course.

Certification: ASA 103 Basic Coastal Cruising

Prerequisites: ASA 101

This course moves you to independent coastal cruising. You’ll skipper 25 to 35 ft auxiliary keelboats by day in moderate conditions while planning multi-day trips, anchoring, docking, managing systems, reading weather, and practising basic coastal navigation and seamanship.

Certification: ASA 104 Bareboat Cruising

Prerequisites: ASA 101 & 103

Ready to take command? This course is for sailors prepared to lead a crew, plan routes and provisions, and run the boat stem to stern while practising advanced sail trim, coastal navigation with GPS, docking and multiple-anchor mooring, auxiliary engine use, weather interpretation, and emergency drills in moderate to heavy conditions. If you want casual day sails or are still building the basics, wait. If your goal is confident bareboat chartering and truly self-reliant cruising, this is your course.

Certification: ASA 105 Coastal Navigation

Recommended Prerequisites: ASA 101 & 103 (Optional)

Ready to move beyond day sails and actually chart your own passages? ASA 105 Coastal Navigation is for sailors who want to plan multi-day routes, read and interpret charts, tides, and currents, plot and correct positions, convert true and magnetic, run dead reckoning, take bearings, set a course to steer, and apply the Navigation Rules with confidence. If you still lean on GPS for everything or are early in the basics, wait. If your goal is safe, accurate coastal passages you can execute even when the screen goes dark, this is your course.

Certification: ASA 106 Advanced Coastal Navigation

Prerequisites: ASA 101, 103, 104, & 105

For sailors ready to turn coastal miles into true passages, this course pushes you beyond fair weather into confident command day or night. You’ll practise advanced sail handling, heavy weather tactics, night navigation, man-overboard recovery, emergency response, and managing a vessel’s systems underway, with longer runs that demand real decision-making and leadership. Finish ready to plan and execute extended coastal passages under all conditions.

Certification: ASA 114 Cruising Catamaran

Prerequisites: ASA 101, 103, & 104

Ready to take the helm of a multihull? This course teaches the why and the how of catamarans, then proves it on the water. You’ll learn what sets two hulls apart, master twin-engine handling, spin a boat in its own length in tight marinas, and dock with precision. We also focus on safety and seamanship: jacklines, man-overboard recovery, capsize risks and avoidance, heavy-weather habits, and smart crew management. By the finish, you’ll understand hull design, rigging, and onboard systems, trim for performance under sail and power, and run a cruising catamaran with confidence on coastal routes and beyond.