Training Programs
Start Yachting
Learn to Skipper
Navigation
Theory and Practice involved in knowing how to plan and carry out a safe passage
Start Yachting
Safely learn the ropes and the new language, and enjoy this awesome pastime – cruising or racing, it’s your choice.
Boat Handling
Docking and Small boat maneuvering can be a lot less stressful with some understanding and practice.
Learn to Skipper
Start to take control and consider all the elements towards becoming master of your own yacht
Navigation
All the Theory and Practice involved in knowing how to plan and carry out a safe passage
Cruising Seamanship
Learn the many aspects and rules around safe seamanship and cruising life. Ask also about our experience mile builder passages.
Race Training
Starting, crew work, preparation, as well as sail trim, spinnakers and racing tactics. Ask us to come out for a session on your own yacht to get some tips.
Mile Building
Join us on a passage and gain experience and training along the way. Let us know your details and we’ll send you invitations when we can.
Business Retreats
Bring 30 years of Business Mgt together witha great day on the water – to build your team and plan for the future. (Ask for a quote)
Note : Courses are all on your own boat (or a Charter boat) at $700per day inclusive. (Charter vessel costs extra.)
Group size allows for up to 4 people. An additional $50pp is applicable for extra students.
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Professional Deliveries
Have your seaworthy yacht or motor cruiser safely delivered from A to B by qualified and experienced Skippers. We are qualified for any vessel up to 24M in length.
Deliveries are quoted dependent upon the expected passage time, plus travel and incidental expenses for 2 people.
We sometimes have spots available for those looking to get miles offshore so let us know and we can ask you when the opportunities arise.
Why Coastal Sail Training & Deliveries
Qualified
Clive has qualified twice as a YachtMaster (1987 & 1999) and has taught thousands of people in a structured format since 1986. He is also qualified as a Coxswain NC1 Skipper, Master <24M vessels and MED2.
Shelly is a Coastal Skipper with 100,000s NM under her belt.
Experience
Qualifications are one thing, but time on the water is key. We have hundreds of thousands of miles under the keel, both Coastal and Ocean and are ready to do more. We never stop learning.
Private Tuition
Classes are restricted to small groups all who know each other and book together. Tuition and support can also be provided on your Coastal passages.
Customised
Being a Private booking we can tailor the delivery or training for you – for example if one of you is a bit experienced while the other is a beginner, we blend the training to help you both - come along on a delivery with us.
Hands On
A totally practical experience from the beginning and being a liveaboard experience – you take part in all aspects of the day. Join us in the delivery of your yacht and learn as you go.
Calm
Your Instructor Clive Jones has earned a reputation of being a calm, and clear trainer who many students have requested over the years to be their instructor on subsequent classes.
Behind Our Specialities.
Clive
Clive
The Skipper
Clive has a lifetime of Coaching experience from Business and Leade rship Coaching, to Inshore and Offshore Sail Training. Having taken sailing students on races and passages from Sydney up and down the coast from Mooloolaba to Wollongong. He has also enjoyed racing classic offshore races such as the Fastnet and Hobart rac es, and many more
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Your Skippers - Clive & Shelly
Clive has a lifetime of Coaching experience from Business and Leadership Coaching, to Inshore and Offshore Sail Training.
Having taken sailing students on races and passages up and down the East Coast of Australia, he has also enjoyed racing in classic offshore races such as the Fastnet and Hobart races and many more regattas.
Clive has owned many yachts of his own over the years and is currently living aboard his Rival 38, a bluewater cruising ketch.
Shelly is a qualified teacher speaking English and Japanese and has sailed all her life.
She has undertaken many ocean and coastal passages covering over 100,000NM in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
Shelly also has her own yacht, a Farr 11.6M based currently in Yamba, NSW.
Our Specialities
What's Included in Your Training
Notes
A set of notes to help explain things, and to take home to refresh your memories later.
Wet Weather Jackets
In case you don’t have anything suitable yourself – we have some loaners – but let’s hope we don’t need them
Experience
installation & project development
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How To Book
Contact Us
Simply complete the contact form and we’ll be in touch. Alternatively try calling 0414 491977 – if we’re busy leave a clear message – or text us. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
Choose Dates
Let us know what you are looking for and the engagement will be customised to you. We’ll send your booking details and once paid we’ll lock it in.
Enjoy
Turn up ready for some fun and a few challenges.
Procedures
There's a right way and many wrong ways-we'll show you how to do things correctly so they are safe and effective
Participation
It’s hands on all the way. From before we leave the dock, to when you disembark
Patience
Calm and collected does it. We talk things though before we do it, so the only raised voices are to enable you to hear over the wind or occasional engine noise
Progress
You’ll head home afterwards with a feeling of having made big steps forward in your sailing prowess
Training FAQ's
White soled shoes (no black soles). Other than that, whatever you feel comfortable wearing normally for the current weather conditions. Sometime the wind can feel a bit chillier on the water, sometimes the sun is blistering and you might want those longer sleeves for protection
We are currently in beautiful Port Stephens, based out of the stunning Anchorage Marina, however we will be travelling around so just let us know where you would like to meet.
If you are asking it might be a concern. Sailing yachts though is a pastime that many take into their 70s and beyond. As long as you can walk around easily and fit through the companionway you should be fine. Let us know of any special conditions we need to be aware of.
If you are a couple with a child over 12 that you will take care of we are happy for them to enjoy the experience and train them too.
Let us know where and we can discuss the possibilities
