Miami / Southeast · Miami
501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2005 by Olympic gold medalist Magnus Liljedahl. US Sailing-accredited Community Sailing Center on Biscayne Bay with adaptive sailing for sailors of all abilities and dedicated programs for youth and for veterans and first responders.
Team Paradise Sailing is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2005 by Magnus Liljedahl, the Olympic gold medalist, and accredited by US Sailing as a Community Sailing Center. It operates on Biscayne Bay from the Coconut Grove waterfront, in the middle of Miami’s densest concentration of sailing organizations.
Its mission is access. Team Paradise began as a Paralympic training program and, when sailing left the Paralympics, widened its focus: adaptive sailing for people with physical and intellectual disabilities on its Sonar keelboats, dedicated programs for youth and for veterans and first responders, and US Sailing Basic Keelboat instruction for everyone else. The point is that a wheelchair or a first-timer’s nerves are not reasons to stay ashore.
Because it’s a nonprofit community center rather than a commercial school, much of the sailing is subsidized, volunteer-supported, and open to sailors who would never walk into a private club. That is exactly the gap it was built to fill. For the other adaptive programs in the state, and what each asks of a first-timer, see adaptive sailing in Florida.
Featured Miami / Southeast · Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale ASA school teaching the full curriculum from Basic Sailing through offshore passagemaking, much of it as week-long liveaboard courses to the Keys and Bahamas. A five-time ASA Outstanding School running the 101-103-104 fast-track and catamaran cruising.
Featured Miami / Southeast · Miami
Coconut Grove Sailing Club's instructional arm, a nonprofit running US Sailing-certified courses on Biscayne Bay since 1946, with both adult certification pathways and a youth program.
Miami / Southeast · Miami
Two-base school teaching the US Sailing curriculum, with Basic Keelboat on Biscayne Bay from Coconut Grove and accelerated cruising courses out of Stock Island in Key West. All-inclusive pricing bundles the certification package.