Trip begins on day prior by traveling to the Nanny Cay Hotel & Marina on Tortola ( airport code EIS), British Virgin Islands. You will stay at the hotel in private accommodations while spending the first two days learning the Basic Keelboat Course. Depart the morning after that course and spend the next five days sailing the beautiful waters of the Caribbean living aboard a luxury yacht in private cabin accommodations. You will learn the Live Aboard Cruising & Bareboat Certification courses while enjoying the many islands and anchorages. Return back to Nanny Cay Marina on the last day by noon for an afternoon departure.
Getting to the Islands
You can fly to Tortola, BVIs (Beef Island Airport, EIS) via San Juan then take a 30 minute taxi ride from airport to marina. You can also fly to St Thomas, VI (code STT) and take a 30 minute ferry ride over to Tortola (West End), then a 10 minute taxi ride to marina. If you would like help finding flights, please contact us at reservations@club1travel.com
 Location
Tortola lies approximately ninety miles from Puerto Rico, and seven miles from St. Thomas USVI.
The BVI offers the most consistently ideal sailing conditions. Trade winds blow on the norm from ten to twenty knots throughout most of the year. More important than wind speed is the wind direction. The wind blows almost constantly from the east down in the Virgin Islands. That makes for much easier learning - sailing out of our channel into the Sir Francis Drake Channel the wind will be blowing on your left ear as you look ahead. Repetition is the key to learning sailing, and the wind helps us here enormously. The Sir Francis Drake Channel is approx 9 miles long and 4 miles wide. Blocking the Atlantic Ocean is the island of Tortola, and shielding us from the Caribbean Sea swells are eleven other islands. This geography makes for the perfect training ground - a lively 2-3 foot chop and constant trade winds. It is very sunny here (about 85 degrees), but the winds keep it comfortable.
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