Yacht Training

Accommodation

For the duration of your sailing course, your accommodation will be on board your Sail Training Yacht. For many of the course syllabuses it is a requirement that all participants remain on board throughout the instructional period - this includes overnight.

If you wish to spend some time ashore in your chosen destination before or after your course then we will be more than happy to help arrange a hotel or similar for you.

Course accommodation on board your Training Yacht may be in shared cabins. Modern Sailing Yachts have compact galleys, cabins, saloons and hot showers on board. Please bring your own sleeping bag, pillow and towel. Waterproofs and boots can be hired if applicable.

Facilities

Your Sail Training Yacht has been fitted out to maximise cruising pleasure. From full standing fore cabin headroom, large heads and roomy cabins all with bench seats and mains outlets, she comes fully equipped.

A linear galley with twin sinks new two burner cooker with oven and fridge on the port side. The saloon table with space for eight seated comfortably thanks to the settees surrounding all sides of the table to starboard. This converts to a double for night time if required. Three cabins are well sized and have individual heating supplied by the Eberspacher D4 warm air heating unit and mains outlets. Water is plentiful with twin water tanks (300L) and heated by either the engine or shore power immersion heating. Music is supplied via a JVC Digital/FM/CD/USB/Bluetooth stereo so do not forget those CD’s. An invertor is installed to keep your Laptops, Mobile Phones and portable DVD players fully charged even if shore power is unavailable from the onboard invertor providing 240V AC from the 500A/hr battery bank. She also has an on board Digital TV for training / DVD. Her Furling Genoa's No1 and No 2 are set on a Furlex roller drum and conventional main sail with three slab reefs are set into a lazy bag and so is a joy to sail.

We also have as an option a Cruising Chute with Snubber which can be used for downwind sailing.

All control lines are let back aft to the cockpit for safety, behind the large spray hood, where reefing is done using the patented Selden single line reefing system with a Rod kicker. Four self tailing two speed winches are used for sail trim but yet powered by a fresh water cooled Volvo 29HP Saildrive with 3 bladed propeller making manoeuvring in confines easy. Instrumentation includes a Raymarine Raychart Colour Chartplotter RC435 running Navionics Gold and a Smartpilot Course Computer/Auto Pilot are at the helm, plus Auto wind and Tridata together at the Navigation Station with a DSC VHF along with an integrated A50 Raymarine Chartplotter complete with Navionics Platinum charts giving 3D and aerial photography for pilotage. In addition the Chartplotter is fully integrated with a Cat B AIS system giving details of all commercial activity directly onto the chart plotter and also into the AIS compatible DSC VHF. Fully equipped to be at anchor with a 1,000W Lofrans windlass to raise the 20Kg Main anchor on up to 50m chain. Whilst on anchor a 2.7m RIB mounted on snap davits is available to enhance the mooring experience ashore when coupled with the Honda 2.3 HP four stroke and air cooled outboard.

Location

Jay a Bavaria 38 will be berthed at the marina and we meet at reception. She has the benefit of shore power so when you board her she will be fully vitalled with  hot water, tanks full, battery banks charged and provisioned ready to go!.