One-to-one Training aboard your own yacht

For many years I've been responding to a steady demand to sail with clients aboard their own yachts. I enjoy this work, and not only for the challenge and novelty of sailing different boats in sometimes unfamiliar waters. It's invariably good fun as well.

Often, the days are used to develop confidence or competence when a new or unfamiliar yacht has just entered the family. Occasionally, I have helped out partnerships stretched beyond normal tolerances by the unaccustomed stresses of short-handed cruising, and years of Yachtmaster Instructor Examining have helped give me the tact that may be required. I even have taken beginners right through to ocean passagemaking level but, more frequently, I am simply asked by experienced people to prepare them for a Yachtmaster exam or a 'first time foreign'.

Clients have included a family who opted to have my wife and I steer them from novice status to Ocean Yachtmaster in one year, leaving them in the West Indies running their own modern 60-foot sloop. Many have been less ambitious than that, but I've made a lot of friends through this work. 

If you think I may be able to sort out some issues for you, hail me via the contact form.