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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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