Regattas, race series, and championships hosted by clubs and schools across Pensacola.
Pensacola Yacht Club · Details at regattaman.com ↗
GYA West Florida Ocean Racing Circuit regatta: buoy racing Saturday on Pensacola Bay, a distance race to the Gulf sea buoy Sunday.
Pensacola Yacht Club · Details at pensacolayachtclub.org ↗
One-design regatta on Pensacola Bay, run by the club over the Halloween weekend.
Pensacola Beach Yacht Club · Details at regattaman.com ↗
One-day GYA handicap regatta on Pensacola Bay, with the skippers' meeting at the club the evening before.
Pensacola Yacht Club · Details at melges24.com ↗
Melges 24 regatta on Pensacola Bay, a stop on the class North American Sailing Series.
Pensacola Yacht Club · Details at pensacolayachtclub.org ↗
The club's December one-day regatta on Pensacola Bay, sailed in ORR-EZ handicap and one-design classes.
ISCA Midwinters Series (Sunfish)
Pensacola Yacht Club · Details at sunfishclass.org ↗
Weeklong Sunfish class midwinters series on Pensacola Bay, a World Championship qualifier.
Flying Scot Midwinter Championship
Pensacola Yacht Club · Details at fssa.com ↗
National Flying Scot Sailing Association Midwinters, hosted by PYC on Pensacola Bay.
Pensacola Yacht Club · Details at yachtscoring.com ↗
Offshore race from St. Petersburg across the Gulf to Pensacola Bay, co-hosted with St. Petersburg Yacht Club; PYC hosts the finish, the post-race party and the awards.
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Learn to sail, ASA and US Sailing certification courses, and private lessons. ASA courses in Pensacola are taught by Emerald Coast Yachts, Floridaze Sailing, and Pensacola Sailing Academy. All Florida ASA schools → See all Florida schools →
Panhandle · Gulf Breeze
Pensacola Beach school built around live-aboard ASA classes for couples, families, and small groups, with extended at-sea time and the full coastal-cruising pathway.
Panhandle · Pensacola Beach
One-captain ASA school and charter operation at Sabine Marina on Pensacola Beach, teaching private lessons capped at two students aboard a 32-foot J Boat. No-test leisure lessons for vacationers alongside the full certification track.
Panhandle · Pensacola
Downtown Pensacola ASA school at Seville Harbour Marina, teaching since 2001 with a roster of USCG-licensed captains. Capri 22s for the fundamentals; the cruising courses run as multi-night liveaboards on a Beneteau 393, meals and bunks included.
Member-driven yacht clubs and community sailing centers. See all Florida clubs →
Featured Private Panhandle · Pensacola · est. 1908
Originally organized 1908 as the Pensacola Yacht and Motor Boat Club; chartered 1910. Charter member of the Gulf Yachting Association and a US Sailing affiliate. Deep junior fleet with Optimists, 470s, Lasers, and catamarans.
Private Panhandle · Pensacola Beach · est. 1980
Sailing club at the entrance to Pensacola Beach, upstairs at 655 Pensacola Beach Blvd overlooking Little Sabine Bay; first commodore elected 1980. Gulf Yachting Association and US Sailing member; boat ownership is not required to join.
View details →Bareboat, crewed, daysail, and membership charters: sail without owning. Rent a boat you sail yourself in Pensacola from Key Sailing. All Florida sailboat rentals → See all Florida charter companies →
Daysail Panhandle · Pensacola Beach
Two-hour sails from Pier One Marina on Pensacola Beach aboard Dare II, a Condor 40 trimaran, one of twenty-one built in Annapolis from 1985 to 1991. Daily 11am and 2pm sails and a sunset cruise, six guests at most, booked online. Captain Kirk has owned her since 2002.
Daysail Panhandle · Pensacola Beach
Jolly Mon is a 27-foot American Mariner sloop, the boat this Pensacola Beach family business started with in 2011 and still its only sailboat. Two- to four-hour sailing, snorkelling and sunset tours from Pier One Marina. The rest of the Jolly fleet is powered tritoons.
Panhandle · Pensacola Beach
Pensacola Beach watersports operation on Santa Rosa Sound, in business for more than fifty years. Hobie Wave and Hobie Getaway beach-cat rentals by the half or full day, first come first served, for sailors who can already sail; pontoons, Sea-Doos and parasailing alongside.
Daysail Panhandle · Pensacola
Sirena is a 48-foot sailing catamaran working out of Southwind Marina on Pensacola's south shore, certified for 49 and held to 12. Sunset and dolphin sails, a half-day run to Fort McRee and Johnson Beach, a snorkelling trip, and a Blue Angels practice cruise on flying days.
Crewed Panhandle · Pensacola
A 47-foot Leopard catamaran on Pensacola Bay, boarding at the Maritime Park docks downtown. Half- and full-day charters with paddleboards and kayaks aboard, swim calls at Deadman's Island and Fort McRae, an overnight to Orange Beach, and an ASA 114 course on the same boat.
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