How do you fancy taking one day off work yet get five days of sailing? Well, that is easy with the Easter break as Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays, which means the only day you have to take off is Thursday! Depending on the next level you want to...
It is quite common for people to wonder about the relative merits of taking the Day Skipper yachting course in the Mediterranean or the Solent. The thought of first rate Mediterranean hospitality and glorious sunshine are definite temptations. However, learning on the...
Ocean plastic has become, in recent years, an ever-growing and serious problem for our planet. The ocean’s ecosystem is very delicate, and is being severely damaged by the abundance of plastic waste being dumped into the seas. Thousands of creatures are being...
On Monday 30th June, one of our instructors snapped this tornado from Batida in Southampton Water, but it wasn’t the first he has seen in the area. James Porter, was skippering Batida, towards the River Hamble, when he spotted this tornado. “I noticed an area of white...
The history of King Canute and the location of his ‘moment with the sea’ is of some dispute. A tide of opinion was raised on our Facebook page when we put out the claim that King Canute tried to turn back the waves on the banks of the River Crouch. As part of our...
‘I name this ship Manhattan/Batida, and may she bring fair winds and good fortune to all who sail in her!’ After the dismal weather on Saturday, we didn’t hold out much hope for the naming and first sail of our two new boats. So when we were greeted on the pontoons by...
What do you get if you cross our office based theory courses and Monty Python? Well we’re sure some of you will be shouting “Albatross!” or even “A dead parrot!” but do you remember this classic Python short film that preceded the Meaning of Life - imagine learning to...
Using Trafalgar Day as his inspiration regular blogger and skipper of the Maybird, Darryl Hughes, has made some interesting observations about how navigation techniques have changed over the past 200 years... Ahoy Shipmates, On the 21st of October 1805 the Royal Navy...