Passion Yachts Sailing School offers five levels of progressive sailing classes: Introduction to Sailing, Basic Keel Boat, Basic Coastal Cruising, Coastal Navigation, and Bare Boat Charter. This last class, unique in the Northwest, offers students the choice of crossing the Columbia River Bar or traversing the Bonneville Dam locks during a three-day cruise/class. As of 2010 we added a Spinnaker Handling Course.

Featured Boat 46' Beneteau Oceanis 461 1999 US$ 179,000 An impeccably maintained one-owner Beneteau 461, Tropicale shows like a new boat.  While she has sailed four times between Portland, Oregon and the San Juan Islands, plus one trip to Desolation Sound in 2011, she has spent most of her life in fresh water on the Columbia River, Tropicale includes the following upgrades:  Balmar high output alternator, two additional 4-D batteries for a total of four on the house bank, full cockpit enclosure, salon upholstered in white leatherette, Espar hydronic cabin heating system with three zones, Zodiac 10.5' inflatable dinghy with 15hp outboard, and an additional stern anchor. She came standard with an in-mast fulring mainsail and roller furling genoa and with  keel-stepped mast. For the layout, she has two symmetrical aft cabins with queen berths in each one, centerline double berth and private head in forward cabin, and second head aft.  The generous salon area has a side galley to port, dinette starboard, and nav station aft of the dinette. Tropicale is well equipped and ready for her next adventure!