re: Sailing School in the BVIs

Yeah if the money is no problem, and you want to learn, I can't think of a better place to do it.

It's getting crowded as hell there nowadays. Getting a mooring is getting hard from what I'm hearing and anchoring in a lot of places is forbidden, you have to pick up a mooring so you've got to time your passages so you can make it to the mooring fields early enough to pick up one or you'll find yourself sailing on to the next one. Trust the locals and work out your itinerary beforehand and you'll be fine if you're chartering without a captain.

But back to the subject at hand, personally, I'd want some experience before I went so it wouldn't be such a huge load to learn all at once. You'll understand it better if you've got some miles under your keel before you get there.

Either buy a dinghy and sail it around for a few months or get on a crew at the yacht club and learn it that way first. Don't cost nothin but beer and time and whatever personal gear the skipper requires which you'll need anyway.