ALL COURSES ARE ON HOLD DUE TO CORONA VIRUS. WE WILL BE BACK!

Learn powerboating with SEA SENSE! Take advantage of our years of experience as powerboating instructors to learn all about cruising on powerboats. Here’s your chance to become comfortable and confident with helmsmanship, navigation, safety procedures, line handling, anchoring, docking and much, much more!

These courses listed are “live aboard,” meaning the boat serves as your hotel as well as your classroom. Cabins are mostly double occupancy. In addition to accommodations, the cost of the course includes instruction, all dockage and mooring fees and any cruising taxes. Also included are provisions for breakfasts, lunches, snacks and non-alcoholic beverages. Dinner is eaten ashore, to enjoy the local specialties. We spend the nights docked at marinas or anchored in wonderful ports and harbors. These live-aboard courses give you the opportunity to really go cruising, because you are living the lifestyle while you learn the skills.

Also included, at no extra charge, is a whole lot of fun!

COURSE SCHEDULE

Florida, Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg – Women only 5 day powerboating courses or Couples courses:

ON REQUEST

PACIFIC NORTHWEST

Anacortes, WA – Women only 5-day powerboating course or Couples courses

Go Northwest to a magnificent cruising area, the San Juan Islands. Most people picture the Pacific Northwest as cool and rainy, but these islands northwest of Seattle are in the lee of 3 different mountain ranges that produce a wonderful microclimate! Called the “Banana Belt” they receive less rainfall than Miami or New England, and have a very comfortable temperature range. The San Juan are comprised of hundreds of islands ranging from small. rocky outcrops to large, forest-covered mountains. Wildlife is plentiful – we may see anything from migratory birds and deer, to seals, sea lions, orcas and whales.

This 5-day powerboating course will combine hands-on SEA SENSE instruction – boat handling, tides and currents, navigation,docking and anchoring -with gorgeous scenery and abundant wildlife. These tried and proven coastal cruising courses let you hone existing skills while learning new ones in an incomparable setting.

ON REQUEST

CLASSES ON REQUEST!

SAIL OR POWER

For couples, individuals, groups

Florida, Chesapeake Bay, Pacific Northwest, New England and many other locations

Courses are available on request. This is a wonderful way to learn the skills, communication and teamwork necessary to cruise comfortably. Choose the dates that fit your schedule and calendar. Boats are sailboats or trawlers. We will teach anywhere that boats are available! Pick your dates, grab your boating partner or friends, give us a call and we’ll make it happen!

Call or e-mail for more information.

INTERNATIONAL POWERBOATING ADVENTURES

Coming soon! Stand by for more information.

This Winter: Powerboating courses in the British Virgin Islands!

ON REQUEST

* Prices are all-inclusive, with the exception of alcoholic beverages, most dinners and transportation to and from the boat. That means that the cost includes the boat, your accommodations on board, captain/instructor, provisioning for breakfasts, lunches, snacks and beverages, and all taxes, pumpouts, dockage or mooring fees. Dinners are ashore, to sample the island cuisine! There are no surcharges or hidden fees.

We get mail about our live-aboard courses …

A little free publicity for Sea Sense Boating … I spent Sunday through Friday with Capt Carol Cuddyer and Capt. Jill McCarthy as instructors, and Diana as my fellow student, on a 42′ Californian power yacht. I came away with a new confidence in my ability to drive, dock and anchor a boat. I can read a chart, plot a course. I know the Rules of the Road, I can navigate through crab pots, various markers, and how to use the radio. Of course, I have much to learn yet but I’m ready to partner with my husband in life aboard a boat! I highly recommend this company – owned by and operated by women, both licensed captains, extremely knowledgeable and very patient. Carol owns the company with Patti and they have been doing the teaching, moving boats all over (including in other parts of the world), readying folks for handling their own boats for well over 20 years. Love them, love what they do! Gena

We get mail about our powerboating courses …

“Hi Patti & Carol,
I watched a captain show a couple new to boating the basics today about docking and boat handling. I was impressed watching her the entire day as the Carver went in and out of the marina. Later, I heard her mention she was from St. Petersburg, and I called out if she was from Sea Sense. Of course! It was Captain Laura Nelson. It was great fun watching a pro teach a couple who at the moment know very little but got a lot of information today. The woman docked the boat several times and I could hear your voices in my head: “Go slow, nothing bad happens at idle speed.” Sandy, the wife, now wears her yellow Sea Sense T-shirt. Classic. Best regards to you both.”
– Bill Parlatore

For more information, contact SEA SENSE at 727-289-6917