Thanks for the encouragement and kind words fellas! Much appreciated
Razzo: The course is ~$1500cdn... I think... and usually you sign on to an established, scheduled course, where they take you out with a group of people. We wanted more from our first adventure, and we wanted to share it with our
kids, so we chartered the cat for ourselves, and hired an instructor, which was $1500cdn for the 5 days, and boy was it a bargain! I think we got twice our money's worth from of our guy. He was so passionate about us knowing our stuff, and would spend all his time during the 5 days he was with us, teaching. I know he is not doing it for the
money as he is well off from a string of successful endeavors, and just loves it. Lives it. Is it. And wants others to enjoy and be safe. And I think he felt like it was a duty to impart as much information as he could to a couple of newbies... and one with a
power boat background at that. There is going to be a bottle of fine Rhum and a half dozen Cohibas heading his way. It was great, but we will do our next set of courses in the more typical fashion (ie. with strangers... or as I like to think of them, yet to be discovered sailing kin), and likely on a
monohull. That's how we will do our subsequent courses, and likely as individuals, not as a couple. Much more economical.