WOMEN'S SAILING CLASSES

We've created this list of useful links to help women sailors learn about other women's sailing organizations around the country, women's sailing education opportunities, women only regattas, and about businesses who support women's sailing and racing. Are you a business? Please contact us if you would like to offer WOW sailors a discount at your business, have an event of interest to our members or would like to sponsor an event at your business or at one of our member clubs. Looking for more local water-based events, not just sailing classes? Check out our new page with links to local organization’s boating calendars.

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Women’s Sailing Organizations

Women's Sailing Foundation / National Women's Sailing Association
Dedicated to enriching the lives of women and girls through education and access to the sport of sailing. Holds an annual sailing education conference every June and many events around the country. Annual dues: $45.

The National Women’s Sailing Association has compiled a great list of Women’s sailing organizations around the country, including US! View the NWSA list of Women’s Sailing Organizations here.

Horseshoe Harbor Yacht Club | Larchmont, NY
Learn to Sail Programs for adults - coed. Spring and Summer sessions.

Fairfield Community Sailing | Fairfield, CT
Members get shared use of two fixed keel Ideal 18’ daysailers, four two-person kayaks, and four one-person kayaks. Located at the Town Dock in Southport Harbor. CSF is not a sailing school. Members are expected to have some sailing and kayaking experience before joining. Beginning sailors can check Longshore Sailing School (link below) in Westport for lessons.

Mystic Seaport | Mystic, CT
Mystic Seaport offers a Spring Women’s Sailing Class. They cover all sailing basics in class next to the warm fire, followed by on-the-water practice with a fleet of JY15 and Dyer Dhows. The course is taught to the level of whomever registers. They also offer a full slate of adult sailing classes all summer.

Tod’s Point Sailing School | Old Greenwich, CT
Tod’s Point Sailing School on Greenwich Point offers a women’s only basic sailing class every June on weekday mornings as well as coed sailing classes. Greenwich residents only.

Longshore Sailing School | Westport, CT
The former women’s only basic sailing class is now coed. Beginner to advanced sailing programs. Open to non-residents.

Sail Haven | New Haven, CT
SailHaven is New Haven’s Community Sailing center. It is inexpensive to join and offers affordable learn to sail programs. (And kayaking and yoga from the Canal Dock location.) Annual membership includes unlimited access, skills assessments, and guests. Anyone at or below 80% of Area Median Income is eligible for financial assistance. The facility out of which SailHaven operates, Canal Dock Boathouse, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Joy Ride Charters | Westbrook, CT
Captain Joy Sherman offers lessons, day charters and some weekend sails to mostly women, but open to all. She leads many charters in the Caribbean, plus unique charters to Cuba.

Hudson River Community Sailing | NYC
HRCS offers adult sailing classes, not women only (private and group). HRCS has a Chapter of Women on the Water and is a non-profit sailing and maritime education organization based in Chelsea. They run a robust Women’s sailing Mentoring program.

Black Rock Sailing School | MA, RI, Virgin Islands
Black Rock will teach any of their standard ASA core curriculum cources in a women's only format. Minimum of two, max of three.

Narragansett Sailing School | Barrington, RI

Sunshine Coast Adventures | Florida Keys & Bahamas
Offering women and couples ASA certified sailing classes (for cruising) in the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and more.

Sistership Sailing School | BVIs
This sailing school for women (couples & families) offers the opportunity to learn to sail in a live-aboard situation in a positive, relaxed and supportive environment with two women captains.