About Us
The Sailing Centre
Our Sailing Centre is situated in the Calipso, a friendly, informal
bar-restaurant in the old part of Playa Mogan, where sailors of all
nationalities are assured of a warm welcome. It's just a five-minute walk
from the marina in Puerto Mogan, where our yachts are moored.
By day it is our sail-training study centre, where we hold seminars,
courses of instruction and theory classes. We can also give you a lot of
local information, such as where to buy equipment, where to get repairs
done, how to get to places, what's on, and where to stay. We're here to
help, so just ask.
At night it is a lively multi-national establishment offering food,
refreshments and entertainment. You can relax here talking with other
cruising folk, reading sailing magazines, making new friends or even
planning the next stage of your world cruise.
The fleet
We use modern, safe and up to date sailing yachts. Expect no frills,
however each yacht is very well equipped for ocean sailing. For example,
we have van de Stadt's steel construction Bermudan sloop yachts, 36 foot
and Mamba's 35 foot GRP construction, Swedish design, fractional rigged
yachts.
Our sailing yachts are working boats, offering the best kind of
training experience.
The training staff
Our Sail Training Principal learned to sail in the
Thames estuary, English Channel and the North Sea. He has achieved many
RYA qualifications, both practical and theory. He started at the very
bottom and is now a RYA Yachtmaster Instructor. He has crossed the Atlantic
many times, both for fun as well as a delivery skipper and has taken part
in international racing events, such as Whitbread Race, Sydney-Hobart
Race, Fastnet Race and (AZAB) Azores and Back Race. His passion now is to pass on
his skills to other people.
Our Dutch Instructor started dinghy sailing in his teens,
followed by several years of coastal cruising in the North Sea. He took
his first long distance trip when he was 25 years old. This was the
beginning of many single handed blue water adventures. Over the years of
sailing he has logged 120,000 miles before GPS came in common use. He
speaks four languages, wrote a book on Astro-navigation and, for several
years, was a feature writer for "Zeilen", a major Dutch sailing
magazine.
Both believe strongly that, although new electronic navigational
techniques are available, the art of traditional navigation and seamanship
is vital for safety at sea. These skills are the core of successful
sailing and are taught until you understand it!
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