Los Angeles Ventura

Sailing School

Learn to Sail With SailTime!

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SailTime University

SailTime works hand in hand with the American Sailing Association (ASA) to offer a full range of courses to take you from beginning sailing to qualification to getting you fulling prepared and comfortable using your SailTime boat anytime or chartering a Beneteau anywhere in the world. Private instruction or Family classes or Group lessons are available.

Accelerate Skills Development

Experiential Education

All of our instructor-captains are USCG-licensed and ASA-certified.

Their yachting experience includes delivering yachts from coast to coast, including trips through the Panama Canal, several trips up and down the East and West Coast of the US as well as across the Pacific ; they also have live a board experience. This time aboard a diverse range of cruising and racing yachts help them work with clients by bringing a lifetime of sailing experience to SailTime in Marina del Rey.

SailTime supports the national recreational boating education standards as recognized by the United States Coast Guard.

ASA 101 Course

Students learn to sail a boat of about 20 feet in length in moderate winds and sea conditions in familiar waters without supervision.

ASA 103 Course

Students will learn the skills to perform as skipper and crew of a 30-50 foot boat by sailing in coastal waters.

ASA 104 Course

This course is structured along the lines of an actual charter: students will learn to pilot a sloop-rigged keelboat 30 to 50 feet in length.

ASA 105 Course

During this 4-day class, students will learn the theory and hands-on skills needed to safely navigate in near coastal or inland waters.

ASA 106 Course

Students will learn how to safely act as skipper and crew of a sailboat 30 to 50 feet in length in near coastal and inland waters.

ASA 114 Course

Students will learn how to pilot a cruising catamaran between 30 to 45 feet in length during a multi-day live-a-board cruise in near coastal waters.

ASA 103/104 Combo Course

The ASA 103/104 course is a 5-day, 4-night class covering the material of ASA 103 Basic Coastal Cruising and ASA 104 Bareboat Charter.

Learn to Sail

Boating Education