Advance Your Sailing Skills

Advance your sailing skills with expert instruction at Portage Yacht Club. Our private, one-on-one coaching is designed for experienced sailors looking to refine their techniques in rigging, racing, spinnaker handling, and trailering. Whether you’re fine-tuning your race starts, perfecting spinnaker maneuvers, or optimizing boat handling, our knowledgeable instructors provide hands-on, customized training to help you sail smarter and faster.

Our instruction focuses on an immersive, on-the-water approach—maximizing your time in the boat to develop instinctive control and advanced sailing strategies. Whether you’re sailing a Hobie, a Laser, or a larger daysailer, we can help you master efficiency, safety, and performance.

Looking to rig, trailer, or optimize your own boat? Our team can guide you through best practices to ensure you’re getting the most out of your vessel. Advance Your Sailing today—call us to schedule a session.

Rigging, Racing, Spinnaker & Trailering
Course Duration Hourly
Sailboat Assembly & Rigging 1-2 Hour(s) $75
Racing Per Skill Level $100
Spinnaker 2-3 Hours $100
Trailering 1-2 Hour(s) $75
Sailboat Assembly & Rigging

Trying to figure out what goes where with your boat? If so, then the friendly staff at Midwest Sailing invites you to schedule an assembly and rigging lesson.

We have experience in many small boat designs including the Flying Scot, Interlake, Laser, Sunfish, Snipe, Hobie Cats, 470, Mutineer & Buccaneer. We also have helped people with Catalina 22, ComPac 16, Sol Cat 18, Islands 15, and Hunter Trailerables.

Racing

Having difficulty getting your racing game together? Our expert staff can help identify your needs as well as coach you on techniques aimed at improving your boat handling skills and race course acumen.

Spinnaker

Looking to enhance our sailing skills? One of the most enjoyable aspects of sailing is flying a spinnaker. It can turn that often, slow, uneventful, downwind ride into an unforgettable experience. Our staff has years of spinnaker expereince and would enjoy sharing this knowledge with you.

Trailering

Having trouble figuring out the best way to get your mast up and down as well as trailering your boat? Over the years we have taught many little tricks to make the trailering process quick and efficient for our customers. We can save you time!

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