You’ve seen pictures and videos of people out on a yacht for a week and you want to do the same. So how do you do that? There are many options such as bareboat charter, flotilla or skippered charter. So you’ve chosen option 1 or option 2. That means. that if you want to holiday in the Mediterranean Sea … Read more
I was hesitant, at first, to write about tying knots. I feel like knots are something to be practised and are hard to describe. I then found myself googling certain knots as I’m trying to get better at them. There are about as many techniques to tie a bowline as there are people in this … Read more
You’ve got on the boat, you see all these lines everywhere and now you need to make the boat go forward. There are two or three things to understand about turning wind energy into forward energy on a sailboat. We call this process, “trimming the sails.” To keep things simple, I’ll only discuss making a … Read more
There are many different schemes you can follow to get certified to be on the water. The three more internationally accepted are the Royal Yachting Association (RYA), International Yacht Training (IYT) and the American Sailing Association (ASA). If you want to know more in detail about the RYA scheme, I recommend you read my previous … Read more
Of the many different series of courses available around the world, the most recognized is the Royal Yachting Association’s learning scheme. This is for many reasons including the history of boating but I’ll avoid boring you on the details. The main reason is that the higher levels can be commercially endorsed by the Maritime and … Read more
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