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Premier Sailing provide the opportunity to practice skills unavailable on RYA courses. Boat handling can prove daunting particularly in a confined space. Spinnakers and Cruising Chutes are a mystery to many cruising yachtsmen and women. The use of a pole on the genoa is often not practised on RYA structured courses. One person who came on a two day boat handling weekend told us that during their Competent Crew and Day Skipper courses they never had the opportunity to actually berth a boat in a marina. During your two days with us you will have ample time to practice berthing and manoeuvring under power and sail. A typical two days would be one day practicing under power and another manoeuvring under sail, picking up buoys, anchoring, man overboard and coming alongside a berth. Our Spinnaker days involve raising and lowering and safe operation of all the equipement. The Premier engine course is undertaken with just two students and takes place on a boat so you get a realistic insight into real boat maintenance.
Your skipper/instructor will discuss your needs and plan the time you spend with us to maximise the benefit to you.
As with all Premier activities the group sizes are small. On our boats we have just four people on board a 9-berth boat - you will have a great experience with a cabin of your own.
Diesel Courses usually have no more than two people so you will maximise your learning.
Boat handling can prove daunting particularly in a confined space. Spinnakers and Cruising Chutes are a mystery to many cruising yachtsmen and women. The use of a pole on the genoa is often not practised on RYA structured courses. One person who came on a two day boat handling weekend told us that during their Competent Crew and Day Skipper courses they never had the opportunity to actually berth a boat in a marina. During your two days with us you will have ample time to practice berthing and manoeuvring under power and sail. A typical two days would be one day practicing under power and another manoeuvring under sail, picking up buoys, anchoring, man overboard and coming alongside a berth. Our Spinnaker days involve raising and lowering and safe operation of all the equipement. The Premier engine course is undertaken with just two students and takes place on a boat so you get a realistic insight into real boat maintenance.
Your skipper/instructor will discuss your needs and plan the time you spend with us to maximise the benefit to you.
For diesel and boat maintenance events please wear suitable clothing - For practical sailing events please see the list below.
We endeavor to supply as much of what you need as possible. Since Covid we no longer supply pillows or pillow cases. We supply wet weather gear – but not footwear.
So here is a guide as to what you might bring:
Pack your gear in a soft bag or holdall, i.e. not a hard suitcase, as stowage on board is limited. We provide all safety equipment such as lifejackets and harnesses etc.
Same as Ever- Best of the best
Christian was superb - I learnt so much
Thank you
Angus
A big thank you from us Colin. We really appreciate your flexibility when we had to re schedule due to my illness, that was a massive relief. The yachts were clean, well maintained and nice to sail. Will was great as our instructor. We really enjoyed the course as a family.
Thanks for posting the Padstow harbour photo on the blog, it makes me feel proud the fly the banner!It was a brilliant week last week, from calm waters near Lundy to rough seas around Land’s end.
Just an important bit of feedback for you... our skipper, Adam Waugh was fantastic, and is a good ambassador for your company. From the welcoming text on Sunday morning asking of our arrival time, the personal welcome at the jetty. He made it perfectly clear that safety was his main concern, obviously an important point, but glad to be told it.
The week continued with his professionalism and experience, and the character mix on Galliver was perfect. This is always a worrying point for everyone. On leaving the boat, we all cleaned up, but Adam personally went the extra mile. It was immaculate, and smelt good too!
Good people are always hard to find, I would recommend his guy as a skipper!
Thanks again for a good week.
Best Wishes,
Nick
Dear Colin,
Please find my course feedback form attached.
Thank you very much for the course, also particular thanks to Gary who was outstanding!
Many thanks
Vlad
Colin and Jon were very patient as I took some time to "get it" with chartwork. I found it very hard work and far more time consuming than I thought it would be. The online videos were very helpful when doing homework.
Great fun. Don't know how Colin remained so calm with a student parking his boat. A brilliant experience including the food.
A great course. Bev is a great instructor and gave me great support and encouragement even when things didn't quite go according to plan. Now I am truly a Yachtmaster!!
Paul was a great skipper, calm and efficient....and he can cook! This trip has given me the confidence to take my wee boat further afield.
An excellent outfit, well equipped with good boats and brilliant instructors, that is small enough to give a warm personal service but big enough to cope with the full gamut of yachting experiences.
Hi Colin Thanks for sharing this picture 🙂 Let me say once again what a pleasure was meeting you. I felt you were genuinely interested in our success and learning and treated us as friends rather than customers. Thank you All the best with sailing and life, I’m sure our path will cross again soon Stefano - Yachtmaster Offshore Candidate
Dear Colin and Jan, Thank you for forwarding the photos. I also wanted to thank you for a fantastically well organised sailing week in a beautiful location. The peace and calm is such a contrast to sailing on the south coast. The sighting of over forty seals on a sand bank was a real highlight. The instruction was clear, informed and very supportive. I particularly appreciated, as a competent crew trainee, the trust placed in me to try all the tactics expected of the yacht masters. We had a good humoured team on board, many laughs and everyone pulled their weight. Your commitment to deliver an excellent experience was underlined by the provision of very good fresh food with our instructor magically transforming into chef in between imparting sailing skills. I wish you and your family all the best and hope to see you again once I have mastered some theory and quite a few knots.
Hi Colin Just a quick email to say what a great weekend I had, Dave was great. And the food was Fantastic. Thank you
