Boreal Sailing Academy

Sail safe and secure under various conditions!

You have the required background, but want some more practical experiences with boats of various size or want to get used to Norwegian coastal environments.

Boreal Sailing Academy arranges world wide recognized courses and is a RYA (Royal Yachting Assosiation) Training Centre .

NEW;   Preparing for Svalbard

One full day 11 May in Oslo. See details

Approved courses (more details - follow links to the left)

 RYA Competent Crew (5 days)

• Practical course with some theory. The aim of the course is to introduce the complete beginner to cruise under sail, thereby enabling them to become an active crew. You will be taught the fundamentals such as knots, nautical terms, sail handling and helming, as you will get experience in "living" in the environment of a cruising yacht.

RYA Day Skipper Practical Tidal  - (5 days)

• Practical course for you who wants more experience in coastal sailing. It is also suitable for families and groups that aspire as yacht owners.

• Previous Experience Required: 5 days aboard, 100 nm logged and 4 night hours sailed. Knowledge of basic navigation (min. Båtførerprøven not older than 5 years), preferably RYA Competent Crew course.

• Course Overview: Practical navigation, pilotage and boat handling, seamanship and basic skippering techniques.

• During the course you stay and live on-board for a longer period and as such get familiar with a safe and pleasant travel at sea.

RYA/MCA Yacht Master 

• Crown yourself with a yacht master certificate! We organised both costal and ocean YM training.
  
• Please contact us for more details!
  

BSA also provides

Beginner Course (20 hours)

• Practical training in a yacht.  You will get to know all basic for handling a sail boat in a safe and secure way.

Download  program

CourseSchedule2013v4.pdf (335kb - 42 sec at 64K ISDN)

Private Courses

Families, groups and teams that would like to follow standard courses or adapted course are welcome to contact us!

• "Ladies Only" training program
• Team building through mastering a yacht
• Various theoretical and practical courses

Have a look at this video from NRK