Posted in Sailing on 9 June, 2007 | No Comments »
We have bought each of our yachts a Kim pickup sail for this year. As both our yachts have swimming platforms it is relatively easy to bring back a person who has fallen in the water. This is not the case on all yachts.
As many of our clients intend to sail short-handed, perhaps as a [...]
Posted in Sailing on 9 June, 2007 | No Comments »
Ian took this photograph of Valentine and Zotelot moored alongside each other at Ermioni - an attractive village on the mainland side of the Hydra Channel.
Posted in Sailing, Staff & Other Animals on 9 June, 2007 | No Comments »
We are pleased to introduce Karen Robinson, who will be running some courses for us in 2007.
Karen has been sailing since she was 7 years old and is an RYA Commercial Yachtmaster and an RYA Cruising Instructor.
We have had our eye on her since she applied for a post with us after qualifying as an [...]
Posted in Crew Club on 9 June, 2007 | No Comments »
Georgina Lawrie is one of our most regular clients. She came to do a Competent Crew course with us in 2006, stayed for a second week, and then went on our milebuilder to the Cyclades in October.
This year she successfully completed her Day Skipper course and sailed for an additional week to gain more experience. [...]
Posted in Crew Club on 8 June, 2007 | No Comments »
Here are some photographs sent to me by Vladlen Lisovik after his Coastal Skipper course in May. He also published an account of his trip in Russian which you will find here
This was quite a tough course where they did a high mileage and 3 night sails. If you want to find out more about [...]
Posted in Crew Club on 8 June, 2007 | No Comments »
Here is the first post with photographs that have been sent to me by former clients. This was sent by Paul Lear who says The boat is small, old and a classic form, but still it sails so much fun to be had!
Well done, Sylvia .. good sailing. Click on the thumbnails for a bigger [...]
Posted in Powerboating, Sailing on 7 June, 2007 | 2 Comments »
One reason why RYA schools have a good reputation is that they are all inspected on an annual basis. The boats and safety equipment are checked, as are the instructors’ qualifications and feedback forms from students.
This year will be particularly important for us as we have applied for recognition to run Powerboat courses as well [...]
Posted in Sailing on 7 June, 2007 | No Comments »
If you want to learn more about how to properly trim the foresail, there’s a good article by Richard Thomas on the Mainsail website - see Trimming the Headsail
Posted in Sailing on 7 June, 2007 | No Comments »
This year we have two female instructors on our team.
Karen Robinson is an RYA CRuising Instructor who is teaching here at the moment. She will be instructing for several other weeks during the summer. Karen has been sailing since she was 7 years old and has experience of yachting in Australia as well as the [...]
