SAILING LESSONS
Learn from the beginning or fine tune your skills with a professional, licensed mariner and seasoned sailing instructor.
Arista Holden has been teaching sailing for 24 years for schools and organizations including Outward Bound, the National Outdoor Leadership School, Wooden Boat School, Nova Scotia Sea School, Atlantic Challenge USA, and Morse Alpha Expeditions. She holds a 100 ton Masters USCG license, and Lifeguarding, Wilderness First Responder, and First Aid certifications.
She is experienced sailing a diversity of boats including a Norseman 447, a 46 ft K. Aage Nielsen-designed sloop, a 33 ft Ericson, a Bristol 41, Haven and Herreshoff 12.5s, 21 ft Drascombe longboats, 19 ft Cape Dory Typhoons, and a variety of traditional boats sizes 18 - 42 ft including Friendship sloops, catboats, Viking boats, schooners, lateen rigged, crab-claw rigged fishing boats, dipping lug rigged yawls, sprit rigged ketches, and gaff rigged boats.
Her style is to empower you to manage your boat in a variety of conditions. She will give you the time and space you need to try new skills or refresh old ones, make safe mistakes, fill in any knowledge gaps to achieve your sailing goals, and increase your confidence in boat handling.
Lessons can be focused on any number of skill sets:
She can come aboard your boat, or you can sail with her aboard her 18 ft traditional Newfoundland skiff in Belfast, Maine. Contact Arista today.
Lesson Fees:
$60 per hour. Recommended 2-3 hour minimum.
Sliding scale/barter as needed.
Happy to discuss your needs and goals soon!
Arista Holden has been teaching sailing for 24 years for schools and organizations including Outward Bound, the National Outdoor Leadership School, Wooden Boat School, Nova Scotia Sea School, Atlantic Challenge USA, and Morse Alpha Expeditions. She holds a 100 ton Masters USCG license, and Lifeguarding, Wilderness First Responder, and First Aid certifications.
She is experienced sailing a diversity of boats including a Norseman 447, a 46 ft K. Aage Nielsen-designed sloop, a 33 ft Ericson, a Bristol 41, Haven and Herreshoff 12.5s, 21 ft Drascombe longboats, 19 ft Cape Dory Typhoons, and a variety of traditional boats sizes 18 - 42 ft including Friendship sloops, catboats, Viking boats, schooners, lateen rigged, crab-claw rigged fishing boats, dipping lug rigged yawls, sprit rigged ketches, and gaff rigged boats.
Her style is to empower you to manage your boat in a variety of conditions. She will give you the time and space you need to try new skills or refresh old ones, make safe mistakes, fill in any knowledge gaps to achieve your sailing goals, and increase your confidence in boat handling.
Lessons can be focused on any number of skill sets:
- Navigation
- Wind Awareness and Assessing Wind Speed
- Points of Sail
- Sail Trim
- Weather
- Anchoring
- Crew Overboard Recovery
- Docking
- Handling under power or sail
- Rules of the Road
- VHF
- Heaving-to
- Tides and Currents
She can come aboard your boat, or you can sail with her aboard her 18 ft traditional Newfoundland skiff in Belfast, Maine. Contact Arista today.
Lesson Fees:
$60 per hour. Recommended 2-3 hour minimum.
Sliding scale/barter as needed.
Happy to discuss your needs and goals soon!