Learn Sailing & Yachtmaster in Tortola (Nanny Cay)

What you can realistically reach: An RYA Competent Crew or Day Skipper week earns a recognised certificate and real on-the-water competence for coastal sailing. Yachtmaster is significant logged sea-miles beyond that — an honest school maps the gap.

Schools in Tortola (Nanny Cay)

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Horizon Sailing School
  Liveaboard ASA 101-114 sail-and-cruise course
  Horizon Sailing School at Nanny Cay, Tortola is an American Sailing-certified school whose RYA Yachtmaster instructors teach ASA 101 through 114 aboard chartered monohulls and catamarans across the BVI cruising grounds.
  https://horizonsailingschool.com/
• Rob Swain Sailing School
  ASA liveaboard cruising certification (101-104)
  Rob Swain Sailing School, based at Nanny Cay on Tortola, is a long-running American Sailing-accredited school offering liveaboard beginner-to-bareboat cruising certification aboard a fleet of 36-54ft monohulls.
  https://www.swainsailing.com/

The room

• Group — Small — a handful of crew aboard one yacht with an instructor.
• A normal day — Living aboard: sailing passages by day with navigation, manoeuvres and watch-keeping; theory in the evenings.
• Who comes — Mixed experience, often couples and solo sailors, 25–65.

Want the rest — a normal day, first hour to last? Ask the school; a serious one answers in two minutes.

The credential

RYA Yachtmaster Offshore / Ocean (Certificate of Competence) · Certifying body: RYA (Royal Yachting Association)

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Sailing & Yachtmaster

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.