Not far away, two yachts were training for the America's Cup races, which this year, for the first time, will be held in San Francisco.
You can learn to skipper a yacht at Scotsail Training, based in Largs, on the River Clyde on Scotland's west coast.
Sunsail runs Royal Yachting Association-accredited courses from Phuket, where the competent crew qualification can be gained over five days sailing along the beautiful coastlines to picturesque islands, living on board a 43-foot training yacht.
A training yacht with a distributed sensors net for multi-parametric recording and processing of the work of small (< 24") sail yacht and her crew has been designed and built.
Flatbed truck, train, yacht, blimp.
The yacht being used to train crew members for South Africa's entry in the 2007 America's Cup competition struck a Southern right whale off Cape Town, injuring the skipper and the navigator.
Organizers now say that is unlikely because the only sailors trained to control the yacht are scattered throughout the world; many are training for the next America's Cup, which will be contested in smaller catamarans.
In an interview in Alameda several days before the accident, Max Sirena, the skipper of Luna Rossa, explained his own comfort zone in an AC72 after his team's extensive training in its yacht in Auckland.
After the wedding breakfast, the party made their way by train and then yacht to Bulgaria.
Instead, Artemis, which has been training in much smaller yachts on San Francisco Bay, will attempt to get its second and now only Cup yacht ready by the start of the knockout round Aug. 6.
