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Sailing Catamaran
"The Perfect Getaway....Key West"
Key West On the Historic Waterfront
USCG Certified for 20 Passengers
At the Galleon Marina 617 Front Street
Key West, FL 33040
Reservations- 941-870-4349
www.sailingkeywest.net
www.catamarankeywest.com
Perfect for Family
Perfect for Friends
Perfect for Lovers
Perfect for Business
Perfectly Fun!
Perfect For Family, Friends and Lovers:
Anniversaries and Birthdays. Get together and celebrate your friendship. Have a unique and intimate wedding on board.Spend a romantic afternoon or evening (or both!) with your special someone.
Perfect For Business:
Take out the office staff.Team Building and Work Outs. Entertain clients or make a presentation.
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Perfectly Luxurious: Idylwild is a world class sailing yacht kept in pristine condition for your comfort, safety and security.
Extremely wide at 23 ft- combined with her 41ft length, Idylwild provides a flat, stable, easy ride.
No hanging on, no leaning and no getting wet.
Her covered bridgedeck with convertible roll down windows has plenty of seating and a table for serving. Her forward bridgedeck and
trampoline gets you out on the "Magic Carpet"- in the fresh air and sunlight, listening to the wind and water gliding by.
Her Captain holds a USCG Master License with more than 30 years of sailing experience.
Her crew are the friendliest and most capable in the Florida Keys.
Her hospitality is second to none with delicious fresh, hearty and healthy food by "The Dock Cafe". Beverages including Wine, Beer, Sangria and Soft Drinks, all are served from her fully functional galley.
Idylwild Sailing Catamaran, Key West Florida Tracey Dell- 732-546-4103 email:kathleend3@gmail.com Reservations & Information: 941-870-4349 email
www.kathleend.net, www.sailingsarasota.com, www.sailingkeywest.net, www.catamarankeywest.com, www.traceyschool.com, www.sailingstpete.com, www.sailingftmyers.com
Spring 2010 Newsletter for the Tracey School, the Kathleen D and Idylwild Sailing Catamarans
Perfect for Family, Perfect for Friends, Perfect for Business, Perfect for Fundraising,
Perfectly Fun!
Florida:
Key West, Sarasota, Bradenton, St. Petersburg, Anna Maria Island, Long Boat and Siesta Key, Venice, Lakewood Ranch, Tampa Bay
New Jersey:
Sandy Hook, Highlands, Jersey Shore, and greater NJ / NY metropolitan area.
Saturday and Sunday- April 10-11, 2010
ASA-105 Coastal Navigation- At the Keyport Yacht Club- $295 ($265 for repeat customers and members of boating organizations, yacht clubs, etc.)
Learn the secrets of the nautical chart and how to navigate using traditional (and still practical) skills and tools. Course fees include Navigation Text, DVD, Practice Charts, 16 hours of instruction w/ Capt. Andrew Seligman and a test. You may also be certified to ASA-105 standard with successful completion of the test.
Hours: 9am – 5pm
Tracey School at the Keyport Yacht Club, 115 First Street, Keyport, NJ 07735
June 1-7, 2010: Leg 1 – Coastal Passage
ASA-106 / 114 Advanced Coastal Cruising / Cruising Catamaran - Live Aboard- Bradenton Florida to Morehead City / Beaufort, NC via the Keys and the N. Atlantic aboard the Kathleen D
June 8-15, 2010: Leg 2 – Coastal Passage
ASA-106 / 114 Advanced Coastal Cruising / Cruising Catamaran - Live Aboard- Morehead City / Beaufort to Sandy Hook (Highlands) NJ, aboard the Kathleen D
It’s Spring!
Did you think the day would come? For awhile there we had our doubts!
Here in Florida- winter is slowly letting loose her grasp on us. The weather here has been incredible… not incredible good… but rather incredible “strange”.
So thank heaven that is behind us.
Now you are probably saying “what a whiner”, or something to that effect, since the worst down here is the best of winter for so many of you up north. On the other hand: Where do you go to escape when there is no escape?
Exactly….we all wish for Florida weather to be nice; here at home in America!
Maybe 2011 will live up to the Florida promise? El Nino- the creator of all of this chaos- will likely weaken this year, but if I can be so selfish to ask, not before it suppresses the hurricane season again this summer? Let’s hope.
“The Perfect Getaway- 2” in Key West…Year Round!
Those of you who follow our antics might recall we built a second Maine Cat 41 (Idylwild) last year for our charter services. Since the issue of her Coast Guard certification to operate- we have had her working in the Bradenton, Sarasota, St. Petersburg area. We decided to take the plunge and go to Americas Year Round Sailing (and partying!) Heaven - Key West!
I don’t know if you have ever been to Key West- but it is a “bucket-list” trip if ever there was one! Now we have one of our beautiful (and beautiful sailing) cats located there all year. We offer a mix of public scheduled and private charters available.
So when in Key West visit us for a Sunset Sail, a daytime adventure or have your own private yacht to entertain friends, family, benefactors and / or co-workers.
Visit www.sailingkeywest.net for more detailed information on our Key West sailing menu.
“The Perfect Getaway” (for the rest of us Non-Conchs)
As usual the flag ship of our enterprise- the Kathleen D, is soon to be on the move north. Once again, on June 1 she will depart our Florida winter home in Bradenton, FL (west coast between Sarasota and St. Pete on Tampa Bay) for “da Joisey Shore”.
It ain’t all Sopranos in New Jersey, but we can sail you through the very rivers and waterways Tony cruised “Stugatz”, if that is your pleasure. Hey, it’s a small state…wha’ canwesay?
Fortunately Sandy Hook Bay, Upper / Lower NY Harbor, as well as the Two Rivers area of the Shrewsbury and Navesink, are amongst the most scenic and historic you will find on the whole of the Atlantic seaboard.
Our proximity to Manhattan, the Hudson, LI Sound, Block Island and so on, makes for great scenic sailing (and sail training) through exciting and protected waters. We just ask you not to tell everyone about it when you get home. Most of us at the Shore like the world to think it all looks like the opening to the Sopranos and the views from the Jersey Turnpike.
Tom Waits got it right when he wrote: “Cause Down the Shore, Everything’s Alright”. www.kathleend.net & www.sailingsarasota.com & www.sailingstpete.com
Tracey School For Sailing Instruction
Need an adventure? Want to learn how to cruise? Got a special interest in catamarans? Need to learn the basics or refresh your memory?
Learn to Sail!
So here’s the skinny…..we teach these skills year round. We teach on our trip between Florida and New Jersey in spring and back again in autumn. We teach basic sailing and cruising in summers in NJ, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and we teach winters along the Florida Sunshine Coast.
In short: We teach sailing year round.
Tracey School is an ASA Certified Sailing Instruction Facility, the leader in sailing education.
We own, teach and sail on mono-hulls and catamarans.
We specialize in cats. We believe in these vessels and are proud to be a leader in the field of sailing education for catamarans. If you are thinking catamaran you’ve come to the right place!
Whichever flavor of vessel you like- we teach it and offer multiple year round opportunities to get
on board either.
Visit www.traceyschool.com for some good internet surfing and come sailing on one of our cats for some real world surfing!
Spring and Summer 2010 Scheduled Tracey School Sailing Instruction:
ASA-101 Basic Keelboat Sailing- This is where your sailing resume begins.
Highlands, NJ
Weekend: April 30-May 2, May 21-23, June 18-20, June 25-27, July 9-11, July 23-25, Aug. 6-9, Aug. 20-22, Sept 3-5
Weekday: July 5-7, Aug. 2-4
ASA-103 Basic Coastal Cruising- The first step to learn how to cruise
Highlands, NJ
Weekday: May 24, 25 / June 28, 29 / July 12, 13 / Aug. 23, 24
Weekend: June 12, 13 / July 17, 18 / Sept. 11, 12
Bradenton, FL
April 12, 13 / May 3,4
ASA-104 Mono-hull Bareboat Chartering Standard- Bareboat Certification course
Highlands, NJ
August 14-16, 2010
ASA-104/114 Combined Live Aboard Catamaran Bareboat Chartering Standard / Cruising Catamaran- Bareboat Certification course for Catamarans
Bradenton, FL
April 14-16 / May 5-7, 2010
Highlands, NJ
July 25-28 / August 22-25 / Sept. 12-15
ASA-105 Coastal Navigation- Learn how to navigate.
Keyport, NJ-
Weekend: April 10-11, 2010
ASA-106/114 Combined Live Aboard Advanced Coastal Cruising / Cruising Catamaran- Advanced Cruising Standard on the Kathleen D
Florida- Bradenton to Morehead City / Beaufort, NC via the Keys & Atlantic
June 1-7, 2010
Morehead City / Beaufort, NC to Sandy Hook (Highlands) NJ via the ICW and Atlantic
June 8-16, 2010
Highlands, NJ to Block Island, RI and back
September- Dates TBA
Autumn Coastal Passage south to Florida dates will be posted by mid-summer.
Contact Information:
Tracey School for Sailing Instruction & Kathleen D Sailing Catamaran
New Jersey Waterfront Location: 1 Willow St., Highlands, NJ 07732
Florida Waterfront Location: 1000 1st. Ave. West, Bradenton, FL 34205
Idylwild Sailing Catamaran- Year Round- Key West Florida
On the Waterfront- Key West Bight at the Galleon Resort & Marina- Foot of Front St.
Reservations
Phone:
NJ- 732-739-6765
FL- 941-870-4349
Tracey School- 732-546-4103
Visit us on the Web:
www.kathleend.net
www.sailingsarasota.com
www.sailingstpete.com
www.sailingkeywest.net
www.traceyschool.com
Have a great summer! Make this the year you get out and go sailing!
Capt. Tracey
