Providence placed our yachting school right at the intersection of two seas: Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea, that is why our sailings are called " Aegean" and " Mediterranean".
All coastal training passages start in Marmaris (our marine) on Saturdays (check-in on the yacht on St 18:00 - Sn 10:00 and start on Sunday) and finish at the same place by examinations on Fridays. (Departure on St 0:00-9:00 – you can also spend a night on the yacht till 9:00 on Saturday)
Timetable of yachting courses is available in our Calendar-schedule
Coastal passages go along the shore of Turkey in the west or east of Marmaris.
Coastal passages are performed on yachts of economy class and business class, as well as in some cases, VIP lodging on business class yachts is also possible. The difference between classes is described here. 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 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. Standard duration of the whole course is 14 days.
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 classmates.

During the coastal passages, every day, we lead theoretical instructions and do short sea passages to the place of the next night-stop. Once a week we give 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 a 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:
In "winter" time (approximately from the mid of November till the mid of April), when 90% of restaurants in harbors close and there is nowhere to eat and stay for night, we reduce the quantity of "wild" stops and spend several sessions nearby one town marine, then we go to another city with another marine, have trainings there and so on. As a rule, winter passages go between Marmaris, Göcek and Fethiye. This concept of training is popular exactly during the winter period, when comfort becomes more important that adventure.
"Winter" groups, as a rule, are not large: 3-5 persons, which is especially comfortable for deep polishing of acquired knowledge together with the trainer or for the second try to pass the examination for those who failed in summer.