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    Live and Learn

    Nov 09, 2021 4 minutes
    By Kim Kavin

    So many boaters—new and experienced alike—are signing up for instructional charters right now that Offshore Sailing School, the official sailing school of The Moorings, is running out of instructors to teach them all.

    “We have more boats than we have instructors,” says Beth Oliver, Offshore’s director of marketing. “We would hire five more tomorrow if we could find them.”

    It seems that Americans decided to learn far more than sourdough bread-baking during the pandemic. Whether it’s new boaters trying to learn the basics, or experienced boaters getting wheel time on larger or different types of vessels, or longtime boaters seeking education about everything from celestial navigation to bluewater passage-making, companies that

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