GoSailing school offers to students trainings in coastal sailing passages along the picturesque coast of Montenegro, formerly called Adriatic Riviera.
Timetable of yachting courses is available in our Calendar-schedule
All coastal training passages start in the marine of the city of Bar on Saturdays (check-in on the yacht on St 18:00 - Sn 10:00, start of the training on Sunday) and finish at the same place with the examination on Fridays. (Departure on St 0:00-9:00 – you can also spend a night on the yacht till 9:00 on Saturday)
Within the first two days, the student takes "the course for novice fighters" – we do day-time sailings on the sea with getting back to marine. At this time, you learn the basics of yachting. And since Tuesday we start our passage. Sailing passages go along the coast of Montenegro along Adriatic Riviera with visiting of Boka Kotorska fiord. The next sailing week program includes an offshore passage with a night-watch on the open sea. During the training course, sometimes, we go to Italy ( Bari, Brindisi), but it depends on whether all crew members have Schengen visas or not. We can't know it in advance, so we do not promise Italy. Nevertheless, if you gather a complete crew with Schengen visas, then we can go to Italy, Greece ( Corfu) or Croatia – at option.
Coastal passages are performed on yachts of economy class and business class, with double or single (for additional payment) in cabins.
The final choice of the route is completely up to the skipper-trainer and depends on efficiency of training and weather report.
We are not going to throw newbies into excessive weather conditions, so, we often specify and correct each route one day before the passage according to weather-forecast.
Minimum duration of a coastal passage is one week, as each Saturday the yacht has to get back to Marmaris, on the base, where students completed the course leave and new students check-in.
The map below shows some more popular yachting routes of coastal passages.

The program is built so that one and the same sailing is studied from different positions (roles in the crew). If during the first week, you are a seaman and learn to make knots, handle the sails and loose the moorings under the guidance of more experienced persons (those who are passing their second week) and the trainer, then during your second week, you study the command unit (crew management), navigation, lights, signs and so on. More experienced students help newcomers. The trainer, probably, wouldn't be able to teach everyone within the short two weeks (formerly the program lasted 21 days), if there was no mutual help and comprehensible explanations from more experienced persons.
During the coastal passages, every day, we lead theoretical instructions and do a short sea passage to the place of the next night-stop (the first two passages, until you get familiar with the yacht, we do with getting back to home marine). While offshore sailing we give nightly runs. At all other nights, the yacht stays in a sheltered harbor on the berth of a restaurant or at light anchorage.
During the coastal passages, every day, we lead theoretical instructions and do a short sea passage to the place of the next night-stop. Once a week we have a nightly run. At nights, the yacht stays in a sheltered harbor on the berth of a restaurant or at light anchorage.
The map below shows some more popular yachting routes of coastal passages. The way back generally is the same main route, but stops are usually made in other harbors in order to diversify impressions and conditions of the training process.
As soon as the training on yacht management consists of many passages with moorings in most diverse bays, marines and fishery harbors, during the coastal passages the students acquire the most important skills, which will help them much in their future charters: the skills of safe mooring and dropping and casting the anchor accurately.
The whole range of skills that a student should acquire within two weeks is specified in the yachting training program.
We teach in classical methods only: the use of devices and gadgets with GPS during performing training tasks is NOT allowed. During the passage you can use a sea map, a compass, a bearing, a pencil and a ruler – these simple tools invented by first sailors will help you learn how to bear a course accurately and lead the yacht to the destination place. In your future sailings you will be able to use electronic devices, but if they go down, you will not stay helpless.
Winter groups:
We don't work in Montenegro in winter. Subzero temperature and storm katabatic winds are extremal for trainings.