Trip to Grenada to learn to sail

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My wife, son and I will be heading to Grenada to learn how to sail this July. We will be completing ASA 101,103,104 & 114 on a 44ft catamaran for a week. The end goal is to see how we like sailing and if we want to sell everything in 3 years and buy a boat of our own to cruize around the Carribean for a few years.

This is the boat we will learn on, a Leopard 44. I we do buy a boat it will be smaller ( and cheaper) than this ...probably something like a Lagoon 38 built around 2006.

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First off, very cool.

Second, is a week of training really enough time? Sailing, in my limited mind at least, seems like something that takes years to learn.
 
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Gustavus Adolphus said:
First off, very cool.

Second, is a week of training really enough time? Sailing, in my limited mind at least, seems like something that takes years to learn.
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Yes and no. People do buy boats and sail without any experience and sail around the world. This guy did exactly that https://youtu.be/dbf0BAYA5KY

For us this is to test the waters, so to speak, regarding living on a boat. After a week of sailing we may never want to sail again... If we like/love it then we will do a lot more local sailing before buying a boat and sailing off into the sunset.
 
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You lucky bastard......


I'm green with envy.
 
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Good luck.

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At least you will be ready for the comming climate water world.
 
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And then SERE was never seen or heard from again. Damn white people. LOL, just playing buddy. Hopefully it works out fine for you guys. Have fun on your trip.
 
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Sailing is to much work. You need this instead

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