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Where you can learn to sail

06/30/2008 01:00 AM EDT

Here’s a sampling of some other places you can go in and around Rhode Island to learn to sail.

Battleship Cove

Heritage State Park off Davol Street, Fall River

Three-week sessions with classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30 to 8 p.m.

$175; (508) 678-1100 and www.battleshipcove.org

J World

1 Commercial Wharf, Newport

All-day classes, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in two-day, three-day and four-day sessions, beginning at $475

(401) 849-5492 www.jayworldschool.com

Sail Newport

60 Fort Adams Drive

Three-session lessons: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 6 to 8 p.m.; and Friday, 6 to 8 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

$133 for weekday sessions, $155 for weekend sessions

(401) 849-8385, www.sailnewport.org

University of Rhode Island Sailing Center

Salt Pond Road, South Kingstown

Classes four days, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, for four weeks, for $325.

(401) 783-0797 www.uri.edu

Wickford Sailing Association

Pleasant Street, North Kingstown

Four classes on four consecutive Mondays, 6 p.m. to dusk

$100; (401) 294-9010, www.wickfordyc.org

— Journal Staff Writer Bryan Rourke

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