On Saturday, August 28, Seven Seas Sailing School was featured on Channel 2's Daybreak.  The report, highlighting our community sail programs and the inclusive nature of our club, dubbed us one of the Queen City's "Good Neighbors."

 

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It's a great 40th season here at Seven Seas, and it's far from over! We're enrolling new students each and every week through September, and will be sailing into October.

September sailing is the best. Ask Channel 7's meterologist Mike Randall and news reporter Brigid Blythe, who filmed their Learn to Sail lesson at Seven Seas this week, (it will air next week). Brigid tied a bowline in one try-- Mike needed a little more help-- but they had a great time. Isn't it great to have a noted meteorologist extoll the benefits of sailing into autumn in WNY!?

And this Saturday, August 28th, tune in to TV 2 for their segment on Seven Seas for "WNY's Good Neighbors" --they feature a story they filmed this week at Seven Seas, citing the multitude of community sail programs for individuals, familes, as well as special adaptive sail programs offered at Seven Seas. They also cite the 40-plus German exchange students who went sailing with Seven Seas this week, an annual August tradition in its eighth year.

Our 40th year has been splendid-- in addition to Learn to Sail classes for beginners and advanced, Seven Seas built a charter cruise program that puts to hire four licensed captains and has averaged two-to-three two-hour sailing cruises each day seven days a week.
We've had couples and families from Toronto, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania-- but also dozens of WNY families taking cruises, the majority of them going for a sail for the first time! Welcome new sailors!

We've graduated scores of new sailors this year-- from everywhere in WNY but also many from the medical and academic sectors in Buffalo-- individuals from around the world who make their new home here and are getting to love our great lake. In addition, we've had people graduate who are here visiting for only a week or two-- many individuals have graduated this summer and returned home to places that include Norway, South Carolina, Indiana, and even Columbia, South America.

Two of our instructors and their wives will be returning to run our Seven Seas Sailing School in Karala, India for their winter program. India is just now learning to sail, with their growing middle class eager to take part. If you know how to share sailing skills, and have a medical background, our Seven Seas' "Sailors Who Heal" program invites you to check out our medical/sail working vacations at Seven Seas-India (where the five star resort and sailing school align the Indo-American Hospital founded by Buffaloian Dr Kumar Bahuleyhan).

Lastly-- what was it, five, or six years ago?-- We were sailing on a Bills' football Sunday, the second week in December-- it was a balmy 70 degrees, t-shirt weather, and Channel 4's cameras caught us sailing by the Buffalo lighthouse and showed the live film at half time to a nationwide audience. So, have ye faith, mates-- autumn sailing, when fine-tuned to the good weather days, can be a blast.

Hi, this is Bill Zimmermann, welcoming you to the world of sailing at Seven Seas, as we embark on our 40th year of sharing the thrill of sailing with Western New York individuals and families. Seven Seas SailingThe cost is an unbelievably low $299.00 per person, or $499.00 per pair (friend, family member, or whatever) . Here's a description of the course:

Everyone Graduates. Guaranteed. You will receive two 2-hour classroom sessions, one 2-hour dockside (where you raise and lower the sails, learn the parts of the boat, and motor in and out of the dock), plus between three and four 2-hour on-the-water lessons with an instructor.

Wait! If you need ANY more classroom, dockside sessions, or on-the-water sessions with an instructor, you can have as much as you need at No Extra Charge, simply because we guarantee you will learn to sail!

Once graduated, you can rent our boats. You can even buy a boat if you like. You'll be a valued addition to our Western New York sail scene. Hopefully, you'll stay with us and continue to enjoy our Friday Night sail parties, women's sail nights and Friends and Family sail days.
The Class Schedule:

Our flexibility to meet your busy schedule is unsurpassed. New Basic Sail Classes start each week, beginning in May.

For the Classroom session, you have a choice of either Thursday evenings 7-9 pm, or Saturday afternoons 1-3 pm. Seven Seas is open seven days a week, so pick the next day you want to sail each time you come to Seven Seas.

For on-water lessons, we'll make an appointment with you for when your schedule allows. We'll customize its schedule time to fit your calendar.

To Enroll, call today: Bill Zimmermann at 716-880-5154