Sailing
Learn to steer a sailboat and feel the wind in your hair as you transform into a captain, with a little help from the Pelican Sailing School. Their Start Sailing Course — comprising six sessions of 90 minutes each — includes lessons on sailing terminology, knowing how a sailboat moves, knowledge of the Mumbai harbour, safety and basic boat lessons. All sessions are conducted on a vintage-style 21-foot Seabird class sailboat. “The intent is to get people to the level where they can take a boat out by themselves,” says Sagar Kudale, software engineer-turned-sailor who founded the school. “We put a lot of emphasis on safety and discipline.”

After you have learnt to say, “Sail la vie”, you can look up memberships for clubs that promote sailing in Mumbai — Royal Bombay Yacht Club (RBYC), Bombay Sailing Association (BSA) or our favourite and the most reasonable, the Colaba Sailing Club (CSC). But if the hassled Mumbaikar in you doesn’t allow time for lessons, sign up for leisure sailing with Sagar, and watch the sun go down and the city lights go up in a two-hour-long sailing session with your sweetie.