Professional coaching on board your own boat – build confidence and skills
Though you may have had your yacht for some time, you may feel that your skills do not quite bring the best out of her. Or you may have only recently purchased a new yacht and are nervous about some aspect of its use. We can provide a fully RYA qualified and experienced Instructor who can come on board and help you to get the most out of your investment – contact us to chat through the possibilities. We can help if your boat is kept in the Solent, Poole, Weymouth, Chichester and Brighton.
Possible areas of focus for a day’s own boat tuition may be:
- close quarters boat handling under power
- setting the sails
- improving crew skills and confidence
- using a spinnaker or cruising chute
- safety and emergency routines.
It is amazing what a difference a bit of skilled coaching can make to your and your crew’s enjoyment of your yacht. Contact us now to discuss your requirements.
Many thanks for your practical and patient help setting up the code zero. It makes a great difference to the boat performance. Having you on board whilst experimenting with the new sail was ideal. I achieved my objective and look forward to the next coaching session! (Mr T Pritchard, S/Y Lullula)
I would like to pass on from the members taking part this last weekend their thanks for the excellent job you did in all of the exercises undertaken. The feedback forms all scored top marks for your input to each day. A huge thank you to both yourself and [….] for making this event possible. (Mr C Firth, Beneteau Owners’ Association)
A typical day’s own boat tuition costs £225.00 – but the value to you could be priceless!
Graham is an RYA Yachtmaster Instructor and thereby qualified to prepare candidates for the Yachtmaster examination. His wide experience in boats of various sizes and styles means that he is able to coach indidividuals and groups to get the best out of their passion for yachting.
If like me, you are searching for a skipper for an own yacht tuition session, perhaps my experience with Graham will assist in choosing.
I have an experience with dinghy sailing, and needed some yacht handling introduction. Found Graham’s theyachtskipper.com through a search for skippers around the south coast that offer own boat tuition. (Brighton, East and West Sussex, Southampton and Solent area.)
There are a fair few skippers that offer tuition in the south east, which to choose?
Since I live in Brighton, it seemed an idea to contact a local skipper. Through Sussex Yacht Club, I found 2 own yacht tuition contacts that didn’t work out.Glad I opted for searching all the way to Portsmouth and Southampton, because I have found Graham.I think there are many people who know how to handle a yacht, many people that have tuition qualification as well – however, few who can actually teach.
theyachtskipper.com is one of the few that does’nt merely instruct, expecting to you both follow and understand without teaching. Graham goes a step further than yacht handling instruction, he does teaching. He will explain why you should do one thing rather than another, and follow that by showing how to do.He will correct you with respect, while noting why you might have made a mistake. He will have the patience to guide you through your manner of sailing, and will do it all with care. A guiding care like the one we receive from memorable school teachers and university tutors that inspire life-long confidence.
Caring is another reason you might want to have Graham’s tuition for. He is not just a skipper, but also wants you to enjoy sailing. Therefore he will give advice for how to take care of the boat. Like unsolicited advice about stuff that can be kept better, missing, or need fixing.
Graham’s sailing tuition was a joy to experience! I feel now much more confident in my own sailing and boat handling skills. Indeed, I feel have just gotten to know my yacht much better.
I bought the yacht just over a month ago. I hired a skipper to bring it over from Southampton to Brighton. While I can only speculate about how different that skipper-hire experience would have been if it was theyachtskipper.com, based on Graham’s thoughtful tuition skills, I’d say that he’d probably not just deliver the yacht – but offer that little bit extra.
Like the extra time he took while teaching me about docking the yacht – without prodding to finish earlier because his tuition time is up.I recommend theyachtskipper.com yachting services, own yacht tuition, and yacht delivery – since Graham is someone that will want you to have the best! (Mr A E, S/Y Dufourmentelle)
