WHITECAPS SAILING Your Destination Sailing School
Comprehensive, personalized and fun sailing instruction!
WHITECAPS SAILING Your Destination Sailing School
Comprehensive, personalized and fun sailing instruction!
Your Sailing Adventure Starts here...
If you want to learn to sail or you just want to improve your sailing skills or even if you want to experience exhilarating sailing adventures, you have come to the right place!
Our Mission
ASA Certified School
ASA Certified School
To share our passion for sailing while helping our students obtain the expertise and skills to fulfill their sailing dreams and goals, whether it is to acquire enough knowledge to leisurely enjoy a day sail or to become competent charterers or liveaboards.
ASA Certified School
ASA Certified School
ASA Certified School
Whitecaps Sailing, an ASA-certified sailing school of Med Sailing Adventures.
Capt. Jean and Mila De Keyser owned a charter business and ASA sailing school in Florida from 2007 to 2015. They are flotilla leaders for the ASA since 2009 and pioneers organizing flotillas in the Mediterranean.
Locations
ASA Certified School
Locations
Sailing classes are offered on Charlotte Harbor in Punta Gorda, Florida, from December to May and in the various places in the Mediterranean, like in Croatia, Mallorca, and Turkey, from May through September.
Our instructors
Capt. Jean "John" De Keyser
Capt. Jean "John" De Keyser
Capt. Jean "John" De Keyser
Capt. Jean (John) De Keyser is a native of Belgium, a USCG 100T Master and sailing instructor for ASA 101, 103, 104, 105, 114, and 118.
Jean has sailed on Lake Michigan, the Adriatic, the Mediterranean, the Florida Gulf and has done offshore deliveries.
Jean teaches in Punta Gorda, FL as well as on the Mediterranean.
Capt. Belen Castro
Capt. Jean "John" De Keyser
Capt. Jean "John" De Keyser
Belen is a native of Spain. She has spent half of her life traveling from one shore of the Mediterranean to the other studying every hidden detail of its culture as a linguist, archeologist, and sailor.
Belen is an ASA certified instructor and holds a RYA Coastal Skipper License as well as GR Offshore Skipper License, she has experience d
Belen is a native of Spain. She has spent half of her life traveling from one shore of the Mediterranean to the other studying every hidden detail of its culture as a linguist, archeologist, and sailor.
Belen is an ASA certified instructor and holds a RYA Coastal Skipper License as well as GR Offshore Skipper License, she has experience doing deliveries from the Med to the Atlantic Coast and she is our instructor and charter captain in Greece, Spain and Italy.
Capt. David Proctor
Capt. Jean "John" De Keyser
Capt. David Proctor
David is from Cleveland, OH and has been sailing for over 40 years. He holds a USCG 100T Master and is a certified instructor for the ASA, US Sailing, the Red Cross, and an approved licensing instructor for the USCG.
David served in the USAF and worked as a physicist and engineer for NASA.
His enjoys sharing his passion for sailing as an instructor for Whitecaps Sailing in Florida.
Capt. Joe Cetner
Capt. Jean "John" De Keyser
Capt. David Proctor
Joe, a former high school teacher in Illinois, has been an ASA instructor for 15 years. He holds a USCG 100T Master for over 25 years.
With countless deliveries from the US and the Caribbean he brings firsthand knowledge to those wanting to gain offshore experience and training.
His laid-back approach makes classes stress free and fun. Joe
Joe, a former high school teacher in Illinois, has been an ASA instructor for 15 years. He holds a USCG 100T Master for over 25 years.
With countless deliveries from the US and the Caribbean he brings firsthand knowledge to those wanting to gain offshore experience and training.
His laid-back approach makes classes stress free and fun. Joe has been named an Outstanding
Instructor by ASA 4 times.
My wife, "Admiral" Mila, and I owned a charter business and ASA sailing school in Punta Gorda, FL from 2007 to 2015. We sold our company to pursue other interests but kept involved in the sailing by continuing to organize the annual sailing flotillas for the ASA in the Mediterranean. We have been organizing flotillas since 2009, first in Croatia and then expanding to Spain, Italy, Turkey and now the Seychelles and Greece.
Besides organizing and leading the flotillas, I also kept teaching in Florida for other sailing schools. Recently Mila and I decided to get certified again as a school and we started Whitecaps Sailing in Burnt Store Marina in Punta Gorda, Florida.
Why the name Whitecaps Sailing? Because we love to be on the water when the whitecaps start to show. Good sailing ahead!
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