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Couples Private Boat Coaching Week: Premium Private Sailing Instruction for Two
A private, high-touch coaching week designed to help couples build seamanship, onboard confidence, and stronger cruising partnership with USCG Licensed Captain Deb Marlor.
Experience Premium Private Coaching at Sea
Picture the two of you aboard in Grenada with Captain Deb focused entirely on your goals, your questions, your decision-making, and the way you work together underway. This premium private coaching week is designed for couples who want more than a charter vacation or a standard sailing course. It is for partners who want tailored instruction, practical seamanship, clearer onboard communication, stronger boat confidence, and a more capable cruising partnership.
Private Dates, Custom Vessel, Individual Premium Quote
This is a private coaching experience scheduled around your goals, travel plans, and vessel availability. Grenada is the preferred location, with Port Louis Marina in St. George’s offering an ideal starting point for premium hands-on instruction in the Windward Islands. Because each week is built around the couple, the vessel, and the training objectives, pricing is quoted individually based on the type of charter vessel selected and the scope of the coaching plan.
This private coaching can also be offered aboard your own boat, making it especially valuable for new owners who want personalized onboarding, systems familiarization, safer habits, and confidence before cruising independently.
Request a Private Coaching Quote for Your Couples Week
Who This Premium Private Coaching Week Is For
This week is especially for couples who want focused, individualized coaching rather than a group class or casual charter. It is also for the couple where one partner has carried the sailing dream for years, while the other may feel uncertain, nervous, or unsure because sailing was never their dream. If one of you is excited and the other is willing but cautious, this private coaching week creates space for both of you to learn, ask questions, build trust, and move forward together without pressure.
Ideal For Premium Buyers
This private coaching week is ideal for couples who value personalized attention, practical expertise, emotional awareness, and a tailored experience over a one-size-fits-all sailing class. It is especially well suited for couples preparing for yacht ownership, planning extended cruising, booking or upgrading to bareboat chartering, or wanting a private confidence-building week before a major sailing adventure. It is also ideal when one partner is leading the sailing dream and the other loves their partner enough to learn, participate, and discover what life on the water could feel like with the right support.
- New or prospective boat owners who want hands-on coaching before cruising independently.
- Couples preparing for bareboat chartering who want stronger confidence before taking responsibility for a vessel.
- Partners planning extended cruising who want to improve communication, shared decision-making, and practical seamanship.
- Couples with different comfort levels where one partner has the sailing dream and the other is willing to learn, but may feel nervous, unsure, or not yet convinced.
- Experienced travelers seeking a premium private experience with instruction shaped around their goals instead of a fixed group itinerary.
- Couples who want to learn on their own boat with coaching that helps them understand systems, handling, safety routines, and onboard roles.
Why Choose Premium Couples Boat Coaching?
- Exclusive Coaching for Two : Receive Captain Deb’s focused attention throughout the week, with coaching tailored to your experience level, comfort, goals, and cruising plans.
- Expert Guidance : Learn from USCG Licensed Captain Deb Marlor, with over 32,000 nautical miles of experience.
- Premium Grenada-Based Training : Train in a beautiful and practical Caribbean cruising area, with Grenada as the preferred location.
- Custom Vessel Options : Charter pricing is based on the vessel selected, or instruction may be arranged aboard your own boat for new-owner coaching.
- Stronger Partnership On Board : Build the communication, confidence, shared decision-making, and calm problem-solving skills that make cruising safer and more enjoyable, especially when one partner is more confident and the other is still learning to trust the experience.
During your private coaching week, you will practice real cruising skills in a hands-on environment where the instruction, pace, and focus are adjusted to your goals as a couple.
Helm control and practical sailing techniques
Navigation and route planning
Anchoring and Mooring
Line handling and sail management
VHF radio communication
Boat systems and maintenance
Weather interpretation and routing
Safety procedures and emergency protocols
Docking, dinghy operations, and onboard communication
About Your Instructor: Captain Deb Marlor
Captain Deb Marlor brings more than 32,000 nautical miles of experience, a USCG Captain’s License, and over 13 years of living and traveling on the water. She has been sailing the Windward Islands since 2017, giving her the local knowledge, seamanship, and steady presence to help you feel safe, supported, and increasingly capable throughout your training week.
Deb’s background as a business professional and Certified Life and Leadership Coach shapes the way she teaches. She helps couples understand not only what to do on a boat, but how to communicate under pressure, make thoughtful decisions, recover from mistakes, and build trust as a capable cruising team. This is especially valuable when one partner is excited about the sailing dream and the other needs patience, reassurance, and a safe way to build confidence step by step.
Whether you are preparing for your first charter, stepping into ownership, or learning the systems and handling of your own boat, this premium private coaching week offers focused, practical, and encouraging support tailored to the way the two of you want to cruise.
Your Private Coaching Week Awaits
From the moment you step aboard, your week is designed around the two of you: your comfort level, your communication style, your questions, your learning goals, and the kind of cruising life you want to explore together. In Grenada or aboard your own vessel, Captain Deb will help you turn uncertainty into useful skill, shared confidence, and a stronger partnership on the water, whether both of you arrive excited or one of you arrives with more questions than confidence.
What Past Participants Say
“We came aboard with very different comfort levels. One of us was ready to chase the cruising dream, and the other was honestly nervous. Captain Deb met both of us exactly where we were. By the end of the week, we were communicating better, making decisions together, and seeing a future on the water that felt possible instead of overwhelming.”
TB & CB 2024
“Training with Captain Deb on our own boat gave us exactly what we needed as new owners. She helped us understand our systems, practice real maneuvers, and build routines that made us feel safer and more prepared. Her coaching style was calm, clear, and incredibly reassuring.”
SS & KS 2025
Frequently Asked Questions
- Where does the Couples Private Boat Instruction Week take place?
Grenada is the preferred location, with Port Louis Marina in St. George’s offering a practical and beautiful starting point for training. Other arrangements may be discussed based on timing, logistics, and vessel availability. - How are dates scheduled?
This is a premium private coaching week, so dates and times are selected individually with each couple based on availability, travel plans, vessel logistics, and coaching goals. - How is pricing determined?
Pricing is quoted individually because each private coaching week is built around the vessel, location, charter arrangement, and training objectives. - Can Captain Deb train us on our own boat?
Yes. This instruction can be arranged aboard your own boat, which is especially helpful for new owners who want to understand their vessel, practice real maneuvers, and build confidence before cruising independently. - Do we need sailing experience?
No. The week can be tailored for beginners, returning sailors, new boat owners, or couples preparing for future chartering and cruising. - What if one of us is nervous or not sure sailing is really our dream?
That is one of the reasons this private coaching week exists. Captain Deb’s Life and Leadership Coaching experience helps create a patient, supportive environment where the hesitant partner can learn at their own pace, ask honest questions, and build confidence without feeling pushed or judged. - What will we learn?
Your training may include helm control, sail handling, navigation, anchoring, mooring, docking practice, VHF communication, weather awareness, safety procedures, dinghy operations, boat systems, and onboard teamwork. - Is this a vacation or a course?
It is a premium private coaching experience designed to incorporate what a true cruising lifestyle is like. The focus is hands-on learning, practical confidence, and couple-specific coaching, while also giving you the opportunity to enjoy glorious Caribbean seas, steady trade winds, snorkeling, swimming, and the relaxed rhythm of life aboard. The pace, route, and experience are shaped around your goals, comfort level, and the kind of cruising life you want to explore together. - What is included?
Included items vary by quote and vessel arrangement. Your private quote will clarify instruction, vessel costs, onboard provisions, transportation, and any optional experiences. - What is not included?
Travel to and from the training location, personal travel insurance, personal spending money, and any optional activities or expenses not included in your quote are not included. - How do we get started?
Reach out with your preferred dates, experience level, goals, and whether you want to charter a vessel or train aboard your own boat. Captain Deb will help you determine the best next step and prepare an individual quote.
Begin Your Private Coaching Conversation
If the sailing dream is calling one or both of you, let’s talk about what confidence, partnership, and life aboard could look like. Share your goals, preferred timing, and whether you want to charter in Grenada or train aboard your own boat, and Captain Deb will prepare a personalized private coaching quote.
Request Your Private Couples Coaching Quote
Contact Us
Ready to explore premium private sailing coaching for the two of you? Reach out with your questions, preferred dates, sailing goals, and whether you would like to charter a vessel in Grenada or train aboard your own boat.
- Phone : +1 208-861-1180
- Email : captain@sailingandboatingllc.com
- Address : 518A Bahia Circle, Ocala, Florida 34472 USA
Open Hours : Monday-Friday, 8 AM – 5 PM