Level 3 and Level 4 Course Descriptions

Level 3 Course Description
Students learn skills required for sailboat cruising. Applicants must show sufficient experience on their sailing resume application to be admitted (see prerequisites). Class begins with shore school where students are presented with a set of real navigation problems that they must complete outside of class. Safety and emergency procedures, electronics (including GPS), and cruise planning are taught in shore school as well. In early spring, students have three hands-on maintenance and boat systems classes on the boats while they are on shore. After launch, students have two full sailing days to learn boat handling and docking on our 30’ cruising boats and an overnight weekend sail to Canada. Successful completion of Level 3 class results in members being eligible to time share our cruising boats locally when they are in port at Jefferson Beach Marina.

Level 4 Course Description
This is ASI’s highest level of sailing. Upon completing Level 3, students who elect to participate in the week-long live aboard transfer trip where our cruising boats are moved from Jefferson Beach Marina to Little Current on Manitoulin Island can be rated at Level 4. This cruise requires students to apply all that they have learned to a real sailing adventure. The boats are staffed by an ASI instructor, but the students do everything to get them across Lake Huron and Georgian Bay to their summer home in the North Channel. Those who get rated Level 4 are eligible to bid on week-long time shares of our 30’ cruising boats during the summer in the world’s most beautiful sailing country.

Check the Level 3-4 Schedule here.