Watersports for Climate Action!

MANTA Sail Training Centre

Vietnam’s 1st (and only) official sailing school that promotes human and environmental
health via watersports.

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Welcome to MANTA!

MANTA is open for watersports 9.30-11.30am Monday to Sunday. MANTA wishes you a happy 2020 and the all best for the new decade.

We offer great group rates and corporate event packages as well as organized lessons for school groups (special training rates for rental over 20 hours/week). Contact us and we can work together to build a sailing program that meets the needs of your group.

You automatically help deliver the global goals with any service at MANTA.
MANTA offers a wide array of watersport services:
  • SAIL TRAINING: for beginner to pro with ISAF levels 1-6.
  • SKIPPERED SAILING: with certified coaches.
  • DINGHY RENTAL: with Olympic class dinghies and safety watch.
  • CORACLING: with traditional basket boats and fishermen.
  • STAND-UP PADDLING: with lessons or rental.
  • SNORKELING: around the rocks.
  • CAMP TOURS: with unique watersports and sustainable development.
  • SEA TOURS: see the local way of life with whale temples.
  • KITEBOARDING & SURFING: can be organized nearby.
MANTA watersports are tailored to individuals or large groups:
  • Lessons
  • Rental
  • Skippered tours
  • National certification with environmental fundamentals.

Watersport for
Climate Action!

Since 2009, MANTA has developed a circular model:

  • Watersports trained fishermen teach large groups of children, individuals and tourists, watersports.
  • Guests simultaneously support alternative livelihoods for fisherfolk and automatically help deliver the Sustainable Development Goals!

MANTA is committed to promoting, developing, and standardizing the sport of sailing for Vietnam, broad-based to a national team. We have collaborated with International Sailing Federation, Vietnam’s Olympic Committee, Vietnam National Sports University and local schools to promote human and environmental health by encouraging people to experience the joy of sailing and benefits of the ocean!

Watersports for all!

An opportunity to relax, have fun, get healthy and learn unique new life-skills!

Individuals

MANTA offers a wide range of watersports training and sea tours: from sailing, surfing, windsurfing, to Stand-Up-paddling, snokerling and coracling.

Groups

MANTA offers watersport sea tours to Mui Ne fishing village with the local way of life.

Schools

MANTA organizes unique watersport camps and delivers sustainable development goals to over 5,000+ school children from international schools since 2014.

Corporates

Book your next team-building activities with MANTA, professional watersport activities with certified coaches in Vietnam.

N.B. For corporate CSR, please see our sponsored workshops for local children.

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World-class training programs

We believe ‘hands on’ instruction and practice are the best way to learn and most thorough and enjoyable learning experience, while also emphasizing safety and good seamanship.

Beginner

Getting afloat

  • Test drives
  • Controlled capsizes
  • Copying the skills

1-2 hours

Beginner

Learn to sail

  • Test drives
  • Controlled capsizes
  • Balancing the boat
  • Balancing the sails
  • Steering and orientation
  • Upwind and tacking
  • Downwind and jibing

6~10 hours

Intermediates

Progressive training

  • Sailing backwards
  • Sailing in circles
  • Man-overboard
  • Stopping alongside a rescue boat
  • Picking up and dropping anchors
  • Sailing without a centerboard
  • Sailing without a rudder

6~10 hours

Racing

Race training

  • Race starts
  • Race tracks
  • Race sequences
  • Race courses
  • Rules of the road
  • Race penalties
  • Checking the elements
  • Roll tacks, roll jibes
  • Reefing

6~10 hours

Advanced

Advanced training

  • Sailing with spinnakers
  • Sailing with trapezes
  • Sailing without a centerboard
  • Sailing without a rudder
  • Sailing tight circles

6~10 hours

Our training programs are delivered in small sequential steps, tailored to each client, and inline with Vietnam’s National Sailing Plan, drawn by MANTA, following guidelines by the World Sailing, Federation Francaise de Voile [FFV] and Royal Yachting Association [RYA].

N.B. MANTA has a strict child protection policy and protocols in Vietnamese and English, drawn with Laureus Sport for Good.

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For single trainee

Standard rates

We offer individual watersport training with International Olympic Committee sponsored coaches.

Standard rates:

  • Coaching (beginners, intermediates, advanced): USD60/hour/person
  • Skippered (dinghies can take 3-4 people): USD50/hour/boat
  • Rental (if you can sail safely alone): USD40/hour/boat

MANTA takes fishermen off endangered habitats and over-fishing by translating their existing ocean instincts into water-sports coaching and climate change survival skills. This alternative livelihood programme with delivery of UN global goals is supported by your booking.

For large groups

Group rates

We offer special group rates and corporate event packages as well as organized lessons for school groups.

Special group rates:

  • 4-7 people at 50USD/hour/person
  • 8-11 people at 45USD/hour/person
  • 12-14 people at 40USD/hour/person
  • 15-20 people at 35USD/hour/person

Additional activities can be arranged for large groups, such as Stand-Up-Paddling, snorkeling, traditional coracling and survival swimming. Contact us and we can work together to build a sailing program that meets the needs of your group.

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MANTA clients

Over 5000+ children have learnt with us. We can work together to build a sailing program that meets the needs of your group. Contact us

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Sail training

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Sustainable development

Watersport tour

Meet the team

Visit us

We are located in Muine bay, an ideal location for sailing, with a gentle beach gradient, minimal beach break and protected inshore areas from the northeasterly winds.

108 Huynh Thuc Khang,
Mui Ne
Phan Thiet
Vietnam

T (EN): +84 (0) 908400108
T (VN): +84 (0) 984771047
E: [email protected]