We are AMERICA'S BOATING CLUB of Snohomish County aka as Everett Sail and Power Squadron. We are a volunteer organization that prepares skillful boating through public and member education. Our charter is to provide safe boating education to the public and our members. We promote and encourage boating by offering a variety of classes such as basic boating, boat handling, piloting, weather and navigation in the Northwest. We want to help you increase your knowledge in boating by offering classes and social activities, such as rendezvous and cruises throughout the Pacific Northwest. Our members are both sailors and power boaters; for people preparing to buy their first boat, for those with trailer-able size, long distance cruisers and live-a-boards. We invite you to join our meetings, become a member and enjoy fun rendezvous around Puget Sound and Gulf Islands. Celebrating Education, Community Service as well as Socializing with Recreational Boaters and on the water enthusiasts since 1948. Everett, Washington

America's Boating Club® is a nation-wide boating organization. We learn together, boat together, and help each other and other boaters on the water and on land. Our members learn boating skills, engage with boating friends, and connect with the boating community. Our great, family-oriented, organization offers much to Northwest Boaters. We are a group of regular boaters who believe in safely having fun on the waters of our beautiful Pacific Northwest! Our members teach certified boating skills to the public. We also offer free USCG approved vessel safety checks of your vessel to help you keep your vessel compliant with Washigton State and USCG Regulations. We enjoy a variety of social and boating activities our members share throughout the year. Our members enjoy participating in a wide variety of on the water and classroom courses that help improve their nautical & navigation skills and become more knowledgeable and competent boaters. Des Moines, Washington

We work with the public and allied organizations to promote safe boating through education. Boating and land activities include, parties, dinner meetings with interesting speakers, rendezvous and community involvement. One of the main goals of the United States Power Squadrons® is "boating safety through education!" We believe that an educated boater is a safe boater. In addition to America's Boating Course, USPS teaches a series of outstanding courses and seminars that cover advanced seamanship, navigational techniques, boat handling and maintenance along with enhanced topics. Our District covers Alaska, Idaho, and Washington

We are America's Boating Club-Inland Northwest, aka as Spokane Sail and Power Squadron. We provide boating education for the Inland Northwest. We are comprised of boaters who collectively have decades of boating experience whether sail, power or even steam. Most of our boating is done in the lakes of North Idaho and waters of Eastern Washington, but we have members who have extensive experience in Puget Sound, the Inside Passage and Southeast Alaska. Whether you are brand new to boating or whether you want to improve your expertise in marine related topics, we are likely to have the courses and expertise to be of help. Not only do we offer formal courses, but in conjunction we can provide on the water training on your boat. During the boating off season we have regularly monthly meetings where we usually have a speaker providing useful or interesting talks that are boating related. Spokane, Washington

Pacific Northwest Yacht Chartering at Its Finest! Located in Anacortes, the "Gateway to the San Juan Islands", Anacortes Yacht Charters has established itself as the leading charter company with the largest selection of power and sail boats available for charter in the San Juans and Gulf Islands. You may decide to charter as far north as Desolation Sound or Alaska, with our friendly reservation staff waiting to make your yachting vacation fulfill all your expectations. For more than fifteen years, AYC has been providing instruction designed to get you and your charter party ready to relax and enjoy your vacation. AYC offers ASA certified sailing instruction as well as a wide range of yachting courses to meet your needs. Anacortes, Washington

Come for the Boating Education - Stay for the Friends. Our Courses are Dynamic and Go Beyond Textbook Learning. You'll Make New Friends and Have a Great Time. Join Us for Great Activities and Events. These Include Cruises, Rendezvous Gatherings, Dinner Meetings with Marine Programs and Presentations. Bellevue, Washington

A unit of the United States Power Squadrons dedicated to making boating safer and more enjoyable by teaching classes in seamanship, navigation and related subjects. Our three primary objectives are: community service, continuing education, and enjoying the friendship and camaraderie for our fellow members. Bellingham, Washington

The Community Boating Center is a grassroots, volunteer-driven, charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering safe small-boat recreation on Bellingham Bay. The Boating Center was founded by a core of local small-watercraft enthusiasts in 2006 and began services to the public in 2007. The Boating Center is not a club. There are no memberships and no dues. Programs and services are available to all. Much-appreciated tax-deductible donations, season-pass sales, dry-moorage fees and rentals of sailboats and human-powered watercraft enable the CBC to provide the safety and skills education that is the core of the organization’s mission. Volunteers are integrated into all aspects of the organization from maintaining boats, skippering public sails, teaching educational classes, tabling at events, and serving as board and committee members. Bellingham, Washington

DSPSP began as a branch of Bellingham Power Squadron then chartered as a Squadron in 1976. Changed our name in 2003 to include "Sail". Geographic area includes Whidbey and Fidalgo Islands. Offering a wide range of classes including Navigation, Inland and Coastal, Offshore, Boat Handling, Marine Equipment, Weather, Sail, Cruise Planning. Also offering Vessel Safety Checks and Social Activities. Oak Harbor, Washington

Our mission is to offer the finest quality sailing instruction and skippered charters. We sail in the Pacific Northwest of Washington State and British Columbia, Canada. Discovery Sailing School is dedicated to the promotion of safe and enjoyable boating. We will show you how to become a good crew member on a cruising yacht, and for the advanced student, how to communicate with your crew to become a good skipper. The courses are designed for the complete novice to the experienced sailor wishing to sharpen his or her skills. Seattle, Washington

Formerly known as, Sailing Academy of Florida, we've been on the water for the better part of 20 years teaching, fixing, learning, and traveling. If you're ready to start a new chapter or looking to improve your skills, we've got a full-service sailing platform that includes a top-rated ASA school plus a crew of knowledgeable charter captains, mechanics, and brokers that can help you through every step of your sailing journey from ASA101 to your 2-year cruise. Whether you're just starting out, or you want to learn ship systems and blue water cruising we've got you covered. Locations in Bellingham, Washington and Nassau, Bahamas

Our mission is boater safety and education. Our method is classroom courses, on-the-water training, and fun on the water. An educated boater is a better boater! We offer a wide range of boating courses and seminars for all levels, including boat handling, navigation, boating rules and regulations, marine electronics, boat maintenance in the classroom, online, and on the water. We conduct free Vessel Safety Checks (VSC) at your request. We like to get together year round. We're on land in the winter, on the water in the summer, and we double-up and do both in the fall and spring. We've got raft ups and cruises, dinners and holiday parties, and a speaker series with some top-notch presentations. You can just do the education classes if you want, but we bet you'll find your way to a social event sooner or later. Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington

Our goal is to provide a club membership program that offers low-cost sailing that is a fraction of the cost of ownership and half the cost of renting. Gig Harbor Sailing Club's award-winning school offers US SAILING certification in its Basic Keelboat curriculum. Currently we offer sailing courses appropriate for age fifteen and older. After you've learned to sail, our club provides a great opportunity to sail inexpensively and meet others wih your same interests here in the Gig Harbor area. Whether you are a beginner or serious sailor, Gig Harbor Sailing Club & School has a club membership program for you! Gig Harbor, Washington

Griffin Bay is an educational resource for yacht owners and others new to the boating world. We offer practical, interactive sailing and powerboat handling instruction on your boat or ours. We also offer skippered charters through out the San Juans, Gulf Islands, and beyond our local waters. Our captains also deliver yachts all over the world and are often looking for experienced hands to help crew these often exotic vessels in exotic waters. These opportunities are offered first to the most qualified Griffin Bay Alumni and then shared through our mailing list. Friday Harbor, San Juan Islands, Washington

Sailing classes & training for beginner through advanced sailors. Island Sailing School was founded in 1979 by Northwest sailors inspired to learn, explore and have fun sailing. They taught others to sail, more sailors joined and humble inspiration became a passion to create the Northwest’s best sailing school and club. What worked then, still works today: experienced instructors train students to the highest standards, sailors join our club to sail affordably, the fleet has grown, and we sail out of four NW locations. We’re inspired to learn, passionate about sailing and creating the best programs available for beginner and salty Northwest sailors. Portland, Oregon; Olympia, Washington; Kirkland, Washington; Gig Harbor, Washington

Maritime Institute of Technology & Graduate Studies (MITAGS). MITAGS is a world-renowned maritime training and simulation center with locations in Baltimore and Seattle. We've been providing high-quality maritime training programs for military and commercial mariners for well over thirty years. Today, over one hundred and fifty different courses are available for mariners from around the globe. In addition, MITAGS is one of the few schools in the United States that offers all of the STCW training courses that are necessary to progress from Ordinary Seafarer to Unlimited Master. Baltimore, Maryland and Seattle, Washington

Mount Baker Rowing and Sailing Center offers classes and programs for all ability and skill levels ages 8-100 in rowing, sailing, kayaking, windsurfing, stand-up paddle-boarding and more. Serving the boating community for 28 years, the Mount Baker Rowing and Sailing Center is a Seattle Parks and Recreation facility whose programs are co-sponsored by the Mount Baker Boating Advisory Council. Seattle, Washington

We Are...an eclectic group of life embracing, fun loving, boat crazed, water encompassed people living on the North Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. We are sailors, cruisers, fishers, kayakers, canoers, paddle boarders (well, maybe no paddleboarders yet, but we could be!). We boat safe. We have fun. Although we are an active fun loving bunch, we are very serious about our number one priority, Boating Safely, for all our members and fellow boaters we meet on the waters. We teach wisely, we learn enthusiastically, we play hard and we boat safe. NOSPS offers in-depth Courses. These courses offer a natural progression, from beginner to advanced. The purpose is to promote safety, enjoyment and confidence on our North Pacific waters by advancing your know-how of seamanship & boat handling, piloting & navigation, boat systems maintenance, weather, sailing, cruise planning, and other related topics. North Olympic Peninsula in Washington State

The mission of the Northwest Maritime Center is to engage and educate people of all generations in traditional and contemporary maritime life, in a spirit of adventure and discovery. We're many things, and at our core we are a campus that uses powerful maritime experiences to educate, inspire people to adventure, and celebrate our maritime culture. We do it for our own love of boats, in service to the local community and maritime industry, but mostly because regardless of the subject, the sea is the most powerful teacher we know. Learn to Sail Classes are available for both youth and adults. Port Townsend, Washington

The Boat School is one of the premier accredited educational institutions of its kind, attracting students from around world and as far away as Japan, Australia, England, South Korea, Austria, Canada, Taiwan, Ireland, Mexico, Scotland, and Tanzania. Our mission is to teach and preserve traditional and contemporary wooden boatbuilding skills, while developing the individual as a craftsman. Full-time programs at the boat school include 12-month degree programs for an Associate of Occupational Studies degree (AOS) and 9-month diploma programs. Our mission is to teach and preserve traditional and contemporary wooden boatbuilding skills, while developing the individual as a craftsman. Port Hadlock, Washington

Oak Harbor Youth Sailing offers sailing lessons for kids at the Oak Harbor Marina. We enjoy the support of the Oak Harbor Yacht Club and the City of Oak Harbor Marina. Our program encourages participation for children ages 9-15 for our youth classes. We will offer beginner level which introduces young sailors to basic sailing concepts and intermediate/advanced levels for students who have successfully completed the beginner level. The intermediate/advanced level is for students who have been pre-approved by instructors based on sailing skills from previous classes and/or experience. Oak Harbor, Washington

Sailboat charters from Lieber Haven Resort on Orcas Island, in the heart of the San Juan Islands of Washington state. We offer skippered and bareboat charters, and sailing instruction. Boat rentals are available for a full day or half day. Sailing lessons are private and personalized to you and your guests. Orcas Island, Olga, Washington

Safe and fun water sports start with solid basics about water craft operation and safety both on and off of the water. We offer America's Boating Course, seminars, training for the beginning through the advanced mariner. We are your friends and neighbors living in East Jefferson county who are members of an organization which encourages and promotes safe, skilled handling and navigation of sail and power boats. We are a local unit of the United States Power Squadrons®, a voluntary, non-profit fraternal boating organization that has the objectives of education and civic service. We end up being life-long friends enjoying the wonders of Puget Sound together. Townsend, Washington

The curriculum of the Puget Sound Sailing Institute is designed to give you a complete and comprehensive knowledge bases on which to build. PSSI offers ASA certified sailing and navigation classes in Seattle and Tacoma from Basic Keelboat through Offshore. A sailing club, timeshare lease program, sailing excursions and sunset cruises (out of Tacoma, Seattle, Bell Harbor, Elliott Bay and Gig Harbor), private instruction, bareboat charters and exotic learning vacations in the Pacific Northwest, Caribbean, Mexico and the South Pacific are also available. Tacoma & Edmonds, Washington

Sail Orcas is a volunteer-run nonprofit public charity that exists to share the joy of sailing with both youth and adults by providing high quality instruction and easy access to boats and facilities. We strive to teach this lifetime sport by promoting safe boat handling, teamwork, sportsmanship, camaraderie and marine stewardship. Eastsound, Washington

Welcome to Sail Sand Point, Seattle’s Community Boating Center; a non-profit 501(c)(3) incorporated in 1998. Sail Sand Point is dedicated to making sailing and paddling accessible to everyone regardless of age, income, or ability. We accomplish this by nurturing self-confidence, cultivating leadership skills, and inspiring an appreciation for our aquatic environment. Sail Sand Point offers a wide range of camps for youth and classes for adults, as well as boat rentals through our open boating program. Seattle, Washington

Our mission is clear - we are a volunteer community organization whose mission is to advance the sport of sailing. We do this by providing youth through adult lessons and classes, building strong partnerships with local business and non profit groups, and by a growing commitment to community sailing. Some of the best dinghy sailing can be found right here in the San Juan Islands! Come and enjoy, take a class or two, build your skills or advance your racing knowledge. Friday Harbor, Washington

We strive to provide our guests with instruction, charters, and sales in a manner that consistently exceeds their expectations. We operate the Northwest's premier sailing school as well as a charter fleet of select sailing yachts maintained to exacting standards. Our service oriented brokerage staff focus on your custom needs. Bellingham, Washington

One of the most experienced, well-respected yachting schools in the Pacific Northwest and accredited by the Recreational Powerboat Association. Also offering Charters and Brokerage. Cruise the San Juan Islands, Gulf Islands and beyond. With over 35 years experience, our passion is to provide the best bareboat charter yachting vacation possible. Our brokers have logged a lot of sea time. They understand boats, and value. Most of all, whether you are a seller or a buyer, they deliver. Bellingham, Washington

We are the Seattle Sail & Power Squadron. A unit of the United States Power Squadrons, the largest recreational boating organization in the US. We are a volunteer organization to promote skillful boating fun through public and member education. We can help you improve your boating skills and knowledge in the classroom with certified instructors, or outdoors with hands-on training. By joining America's premier boating organization, you can have fun with other boaters on the water and on land! We promote and encourage boating by offering a variety of classes such as basic boating, seamanship, piloting, weather in the Northwest, and navigation. We want to help you increase your knowledge in boating by offering classes and social activities, such as rendezvous. Join us in the classroom or on the water. Seattle, Washington

Our Club offers its members a variety of options from pay-as-you-go to unlimited day sailing, all for less than the cost of moorage. Use our fleet of 22 sailboats, ranging from 24 to 40 feet, as your own! Club members enjoy all of our activities such as group "flotilla" sails, weekly club races, club socials, and destination cruises. Our experience teaching sailing is second to none. Each of our instructors is a US Coast Guard licensed and ASA certified. We guarantee a great experience and the best instruction from our staff of seasoned sailors, whether you're just learning to sail, getting certified to bareboat charter, or taking our most advanced courses. Seattle, Washington

Sailing and Power Boat Training. Seattle Seafaring Institute is the low-anxiety training resource that will empower you to get out on your sailboat or powerboat with the confidence you need for safe and enjoyable boating. We offer straightforward, step by step, no-nonsense instruction with an emphasis on reducing anxiety. We understand that mastering your new boat, with all its complex systems and options, may seem daunting at first. We instill confidence by sharing tried and tested techniques in bite size pieces – after all, it’s only the unknown that creates hesitation. We can help you overcome your hesitancy and feel truly empowered to command your yacht on your own, and provide you tools to handle any situation safely and calmly. Seattle, Washington

The four schools of Shearwater University are focused on high-quality maritime education on the Salish Sea. Classes are hands-on, and taught by a professional educator. Each school focuses on a different type or aspect of boating. Yet they are all linked through the common purpose of growing solid skills for safe and confident enjoyment of the Salish Sea and beyond. Offering a Sailing School, Kayaking School, Power School, and Navigation School. Anacortes, Washington

Do you need a Washington State Boater Education card? If so, our America's Boating Course is for you. This course teaches you all the basics. You'll learn the "rules of the road", aids to navigation, required safety equipment, anchoring, radio communications, personal watercraft and water sports safety, trailering, and basic knot and linework. You'll also receive an introduction to digital charts and GPS navigation. If you're really serious about having a fun time, join us and become a member of the Skagit Bay Sail & Power Squadron. Take a variety of advanced courses, join your fellow members on cruises and rendezvous, and participate in civic service activities. Mount Vernon, Washington

Providing quality workshops for both novice and experienced woodworkers in building traditional kayaks, umiaks, canoes, and paddles. The Skin Boat School has been providing the highest quality skin boat classes for countless people interested in building traditional skin-on-frame kayaks, umiaks, canoes, eclectic skin-on --frame boats and paddles. The Skin Boat School has always provided the highest standards of instruction. Each of the over 1,500 skin-on-frame boats to our credit have been been custom tailored for each individual person. Anacortes, Washington

We offer training and related products in all phases of marine navigation and weather. Besides actual instruction in navigation and weather, we produce and publish books (Starpath Publications) and software on navigation and related topics. The same materials we use in our classroom courses are now available for home study and online training. Seattle, Washington

The Tacoma Power Squadron is a non-profit organization of boating enthusiasts who already have taught over 3 million students how to make their boating safer and more enjoyable.We are just one of more than 400 squadrons in 33 districts of the United States Power Squadrons (USPS). We are part of District 16, which is comprised of 16 squadrons, all in Washington State. By becoming a member of the Tacoma Power Squadron, you'll have the opportunity not only to take boating education classes at reduced rates, but enjoy a host of other benefits and opportunities such as Organized Cruises & Rendezvous and a variety of social activities. Tacoma, Washington

One of the primary missions of the Tacoma Women's Sailing Association is to promote sailing education on and around Puget Sound. Volunteers donate time and equipment to teach a variety of classes. Most, but not all , of the instructors are women, and one of the objectives of the classes is to offer an environment that will be comfortable for sailors of all skill levels to learn more about the sport. Anyone over the age of 18 is welcome to take our classes. Tacoma, Washington

Windworks Sailing & Powerboating has been the premier sailing club in the Pacific Northwest since 1992. Located on the Puget Sound just 6 miles north of Seattle, our convenient location offers direct access to sailing on the Sound. We are committed to making boating available, affordable, & approachable. Windworks is your home for sailing lessons, boat charters and social sailing time. From Capri races to sailing classes and San Juan cruises to our many social events, there is always something exciting going on at Windworks. Seattle, Washington

A non-profit organization dedicated to serving the youth of Washington State by opening new pathways to maritime employment and building awareness of the maritime industry. YMTA will promote and support elementary, middle and high school programs and associated youth organizations in Washington State that provide maritime education, training and experiences for students. While YMTA’s main focus is working with students in grades K-12 we also attempt to make information available for maritime educational opportunities. These include maritime academies, community colleges, trade schools and maritime specific training.

Zenith Maritime, since its inception, has focused on exceptional professional maritime education, training and personal service for Master 200 ton, OUPV (6-pack), AB Unlimited, and serious mariners. Consistent with this belief, we have developed and presently offer United States Coast Guard approved license training courses which go well beyond federally mandated minimum training standards. Seattle, Washington