If you’re already a boat enthusiast or are considering taking up the hobby, learning to sail is just one extra step, but it can have a big impact on how you feel about boating and your experiences in it. Sailing, like other types of boating, can be a great way to experience the outdoors; to feel the wind against your face, the water spread out in below you, and horizon spread out in front, but unlike other types of boating, learning to sail a boat is difficult and challenging.

It requires a complex set of skills, and even after you’ve achieved a degree of mastery, the activity of sailing will remain challenging as well active. Thanks to the active nature of sailing, it can also be a terrific source of exercise for you and your passengers.

A lot of people are restricted in their ability to learn how to sail on account of their lack of action to the sea, but many sailing schools and active sailing hobbyists actually spend a lot of their time sailing inland. Sailing is possible wherever their is wind, so often times a lake will provide sufficient space for the activity. In addition, sailing on the open ocean is often more dangerous than sailing in lakes, so if you’re just starting out with the hobby, you should start with learning in a lake.