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Lake Como sailing with EaseAway

EaseAway offers a number of different kinds of yachting experience, for non-sailors and sailors, conducted in English or Italian on board a luxury Beneteau Oceanis 323 yacht, the Jandira. For non-sailors, EaseAway can provide a range of cruises which fall into two categories, depending mostly on what time of the day they take place. During [...]

Lake Como sailing lessons

You can go on holiday for a few days at Lake Como, never having set foot on a sailing boat before, take a few hours of lessons spread over three to five days and return home a week later with a basic ability to sail a boat. Or, if you already know the basics, you [...]

Self sail boat hire at Lake Como

Lake Como gives visitors a unique opportunity to ‘self drive’ sail in warm weather and beautiful surroundings. The two Tabo Surf Centres, in Gera Lario and Sorico, are a good example of this end of the sailing spectrum. They have a dozen boats for hire, both single hulls and catamarans. You don’t need a ‘licence’ [...]

Sailing on Lake Como: skippered boats (the ‘Limo’ option)

For visitors to Lake Como, the word ‘sailing’ can mean a number of different things. For example, a group of people can charter a boat with a skipper, rather like hiring a Limo with a chauffeur. Alternatively, one or two people can arrange the sailing equivalent of self drive hire – renting a smaller boat [...]