Night Cruising Demystified

Elective Class | Available

Beginner
10/14/2026 (one day)
8:15 AM-9:45 AM EDT on Wed
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10/09/2026

Night Cruising Demystified

Elective Class | Available

Cruising at night expands your world!  It allows you to enjoy an evening sail, saves time on coastal passages, and is a necessity when offshore. Yet for many cruisers, the prospect of operating at night (or overnight) can be daunting.  This seminar gives tips and techniques for the preparation of boat and crew, situational awareness, orientation, watch-standing, navigation, collision avoidance, and training – to make night cruising a pleasure!  Covers inshore, coastal and offshore cruising.

Batchelor, Lisa & Andy
Lisa & Andy Batchelor

Captains Andy Batchelor and Lisa Batchelor Frailey are both life-long sailors and retired military officers. Andy served in the Royal Air Force in aviation and intelligence, and Lisa served in the US Navy in aviation, meteorology and oceanography – a combination of skills which have proved very useful to sailing and passagemaking. 

They founded and operated Sail Solomons American Sailing Association (ASA) school and charter base, receiving numerous awards for ASA “Outstanding School” and “Outstanding Instructors”.  Andy and Lisa wrote ASA’s textbooks for Bareboat Cruising and Catamaran Cruising, and are the primary contributors to ASA’s Advanced Cruising and Seamanship text. 

Cruising for seven years onboard their Passport 47 ZINGARO and Outbound 46 KINETIC, Andy and Lisa have made numerous coastal passages and ocean voyages, conducting cruising and passagemaking training while living aboard in exotic locations.  They also organize and lead sailing flotillas on cruising catamarans and monohulls in the Caribbean.  Andy and Lisa are regular speakers at Cruisers’ University, and present live webinars including the ASA Marine Weather Course.

Andy and Lisa launched Kinetic Sailing to offer marine consulting, charter brokerage, instructional yacht deliveries and tailored instruction and sailing certifications with a global scope. They are USCG Captains, cruisers, instructors, analysts and business owners with a wealth of experience in the sailing industry.