Ready to elevate your sailing expertise? At Modern Sailing, we offer multiple pathways to achieve your advanced certifications. Whether you prefer a step-by-step approach or a fully immersive coastal adventure, you can earn ASA 105, Coastal Navigation, and ASA 106, Advanced Coastal Cruising in a way that suits your style.
Explore the benefits of taking these courses separately for focused learning or combining them into the all-in-one California Coastal Combination course for a thrilling weeklong experience. Here's how you can chart your course to mastering the art of sailing along the stunning California coast.
Option 1: Take ASA 105 and 106 Separately
ASA 105, Coastal Navigation
- Focus: Master navigation concepts like chart reading, tide calculations, and dead reckoning.
- Format: A 6-evening classroom course, offering personalized attention and hands-on chart practice.
- No Prerequisites: Open to all, even before ASA 101.
- Cost: $545 for members, $725 for non-members.
ASA 106, Advanced Coastal Cruising
- Focus: Hands-on coastal cruising skills, including night sailing, anchoring, and advanced sail trim.
- Duration: 4 days aboard our 44' Spencer 1330, Coho II, exploring Drakes Bay, the Farallon Islands, and Half Moon Bay.
- Prerequisites: ASA 104 and ASA 105.
- Cost: $1,795 for members, $2,295 for non-members.
Option 2: ASA 105 & 106 in the California Coastal Combo Course
- Duration: 7-day immersive course, blending classroom learning and hands-on coastal cruising.
- Experience: Sail the iconic California Coast, practice navigation skills, and gain advanced experience under real-world conditions.
- Efficiency: Earn both certifications in less time while enjoying a mini sailing vacation.
- Cost: $2,895 for members, $3,695 for non-members.
- Prerequisite: ASA 104, Bareboat Cruising.
Whether taking the courses together or separately, studying your textbooks before the course begins is strongly encouraged. Below, receive an introduction to each of these courses.
ASA 105, Coastal Navigation
Cost: $545 for members, $725 for non-members
In preparation for the ASA Coastal Navigation exam, we offer a coastal navigation classroom workshop. Areas of study include chart reading, current determination, dead reckoning, fixes, running fixes, danger bearings, set and drift problems and more.
The class is intended to supplement the text rather than replace it, so plan on studying before the class begins. Included in the price is a Coastal Navigation Kit which includes your textbook with problem sets, tidebook, and a practice chart.
The course is 6 evenings, 5 nights of classroom learning with testing on the sixth night. Please make sure to bring your navigation tools: divider, parallel rulers, etc.
There are no prerequisites to take this course.
Learn more about ASA 105 and find a link to sign up online.
ASA 106, Advanced Coastal Cruising
Cost: $1795 for members, $2295 for non-members
Are you ready to discover ocean sailing and explore the coast? Our ASA 106, Advanced Coastal Cruising course will give you the skills and confidence you’ll need for safe and successful coastal expeditions.
Depending on weather and sea state, this course takes you beyond the Golden Gate to Drakes Bay and the Farallon Islands, then down to Half Moon Bay and back within 4 days. Aboard Coho II, our Spencer 1330, a 44' bluewater cruiser, you'll practice night sailing, chart navigation, electronic piloting, and anchoring. Learn float plan development, advanced sail trim, weather analysis, heavy weather techniques, emergency procedures, and more. Boat systems and troubleshooting are also covered, with an emphasis on the problem-solving skills that are essential to self-sufficient coastal cruising.
ASA 104, Bareboat Cruising and ASA 105, Coastal Navigation are prerequisites to this course.
Learn more about ASA 106 and find a link to sign up online.
California Coastal Combo Course (ASA 105 & 106)
Cost: $2895 for members, $3695 for non-members
The dynamic California Coast provides the perfect setting for training at an advanced level. This 7-day course combines ASA 105, Coastal Navigation and ASA 106, Advanced Coastal Cruising certifications. With this course, you will discover ocean sailing and benefit from the wealth of knowledge that our instructors have gained from their own extensive cruising adventures.
Sailing to Drakes Bay, the Farallon Islands, and Half Moon Bay, you will practice night sailing and electronic piloting, learn float plan development, chart navigation, advanced sail trim, weather analysis, heavy weather techniques, emergency procedures, and more. Boat systems and troubleshooting are also covered, with an emphasis on the problem-solving skills that are essential to safe and self-sufficient coastal cruising. Course itinerary is contingent upon weather and sea state.
ASA 104, Bareboat Cruising is a prerequisite.
Learn more about ASA 105/106 and find a link to sign up online.
