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Night Sailing Weekend

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Sailing at night can be a hugely satisfying experience that exposes sailors to the rewards and challenges not faced in daylight hours. Phosphorescent trails and star light skies on one hand. Unseen approaching gusts and squalls on the other, plus the obvious challenge of how to navigate! Join us for a weekend of night sailing on the Solent.

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Excellent teaching and great fun. The night crossing of the Solent and up the Beaulieu River was wonderful. We had a first class experience with First Class sailing and will be turning to them for other courses.

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Jonathan S, UK

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These weekends are aimed at those that have done plenty of sailing but not much night sailing, for recently qualified Day Skippers or above, for boat owners looking to gain confidence of sailing at night or for anyone just wanting to night sail.


The Solent is a great place to practice and learn to night sail. There are so many navigational marks and buoys blinking away and other craft moving about not to mention the myriad of background shore lights that all do their best to confuse and confound. Picking out leading lights, for example into New Town Creek, or sectored lights like into busy Portsmouth are skills that can't be learnt and improved. These night sailing weekends are about giving you experience and tips in such settings.

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Sail in the Solent with all the navigation marks and lights of other vessels that it has to offer.

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Sail into the sunset knowing you'll be able to find your way when darkness descends.

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We generally run these weekends between October and April when darkness descends early enough to allow plenty of sailing in the dark without having to stay up ridiculously late. Joining the boat at 2pm on the Friday, you will set sail that afternoon and sail until around midnight. There will be a leisurely start to Saturday, with some sailing during the day plus a bit of a rest in the afternoon, before sailing that evening through to around midnight again.

On Sunday you will sail back to Shamrock Quay, Southampton to be finished and away by 1pm.

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During your sailing course you’ll sleep on board the yacht. There’s typically three double cabins and two single berths which provide accommodation for eight people. However, there’s only ever a maximum of 4 students on board, plus the instructor. You can book a whole boat with up to 5 students.

Sometimes two people have to share the saloon or a cabin. The saloon is a large airy space with the two single berths or a large double. The cabins can have a dividing cloth to separate the space in half. You would never have to share with someone of the opposite sex.

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From the start to finish, they were friendly and professional, making the whole process a very enjoyable experience. Our instructor, was excellent, he made us feel at ease from the moment we arrived at the boat for our first weekend and had a fantastic teaching style; we learnt so much whilst having great fun at the same time. The food supplied was good, boat was new, clean and in good condition. Would certainly use First Class again for any future courses and would recommend without hesitation.

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