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Advanced Sailing & Cruising

You’ve been sailing a while and have mastered the basic skills. Learn new skills, how to sail even a larger boat by yourself, and advanced navigation techniques. Improve your racing skills. Prepare for cruising for an extended time or crossing an ocean.
Review of Blue Water Sailing Magazine
Blue Water Sailing is a magazine primarily intended for sailors with advanced skills and ambitions for long-distance cruising. Its cruising stories and equipment reviews provide in-depth information for those preparing their own boats for voyages.
Seven Seas Cruising Association
The SSCA is an organization joined by many long-distance cruisers. It provides members with many resources for information about cruising and ports of call around the world. Nonmembers too can gain much information about advanced cruising issues through thousands of posts archived on topics covering all aspects of boats, cruising, equipment, and living aboard.
Cruising Rally Association
The Cruising Rally Association organizes cruising flotillas to help you gain offshore experience in the safety of group. Take your own boat or crew on another’s. Their premier event each year is the Caribbean 1500 fall passage from the lower Chesapeake to the Virgin Islands. Benefits include boat inspection for safety gear, seminars, and social events.
35KNOTS
35knots is a new online magazine focused on sail racing, windsurfing, and related topics that fit its slogan “Sailing at the Edge.” Check out the interesting article on hydrofoils.
The World of Sailing Racing
Sailing World magazine is one of the premier publications for racing. Their web site includes sailing news, updates on major world sail races, and a regatta calendar of events in all locations. Whether you’re taking up college racing, thinking of competing in a yacht club circuit, or just want to improve your skills, this site has something for everyone.
Offshore Sailing School
The Offshore Sailing School run by two of the most respected names in sailing, Steve and Doris Colgate, will teach you the advanced sailing and cruising skills you need to feel comfortable taking your own boat offshore the first time. Cruising courses include Live Aboard Cruising (good preparation for chartering), a Private Cruising Course for Two, and Ocean Passage Making.

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