OFFSHORE SAILING SCHOOL CELEBRATES 55TH ANNIVERSARY WITH SPECIAL COURSES, EVENTS & CHARITABLE ENDEAVORS

Doris Colgate

Mar 11, 2019

Offshore Sailing School CEO and President, Doris Colgate, has announced additional special events, honors and announcements during to kick off its 55th Anniversary Year.
 
Doris is being recognized for her role in business and her many contributions to community and her philanthropic efforts. View a recent video interview with Doris here.

Along with those events, the company has several more Colgate Sailing Adventure’s flotilla vacations planned. Doris confirmed they are sold out for their Mallorca, Spain trip in July, but a few cabins remain for the two trips planned in Croatia in August.
 
Offshore Sailing’s founder and chairman Steve Colgate added, “Offshore Sailing School’s fleet is expanding as well. We’re pleased with the positive response to our new Fast Track to Power Cruising Course aboard a Fountaine Pajot 37 MY at The Westin Cape Coral Resort (this course is also taught from The Moorings base on Tortola, BVI); and in July we’re taking delivery of a new Leopard 40 sailing catamaran, at the same resort in Cape Coral, Fla.”
 
More special courses are in store this year, with new Women’s Weeks courses, navigation and passage making courses added to the schedule in 2019. For more information visit: https://www.offshoresailing.com

or contact Beth Oliver, Director of Sales and Marketing at 239-985-7516.

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