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left handed navigator. RYA chartwork

03/05 RYA Sailing Courses

How to Write a Pilotage Plan – SKIPPER SKILLS – Part One

What is Pilotage ? Pilotage is navigating anywhere you can bump into things. If you are in sailing waters where it is shallow enough

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Can't Sail, Don't Sail, Beaufort Scale

03/05 Educational

Wind Speed Conversion from Beaufort Scale

  Download a pdf of the Beaufort Wind Scale The History and Purpose of the Beaufort Wind Scale Introduction The Beaufort Wind Scale is

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Responsibilities of command

01/05 Training

RYA Day Skipper Theory – Syllabus

Day Skipper Theory Syllabus TIP for Beginner navigators from Debbie at Classic Sailing “On board, make sure you give yourself time to navigate. If you

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Blue Clipper sea staff being briefed

18/04 Training

Job Vacancies – Paid and Voluntary

Job Vacancies – Volunteering Many people ask. How can I be a volunteer on sailing ships? There are a number of ways you can be

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Traditional rigging work - serving standing rigging

18/04 How to Work on a Tall Ship

How to Work on Tall Ships

Want to Work on Tall Ships? Please note, Classic Sailing is not an employment agency, and we are not responsible for employing the paid

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taking three point fixes for your Day Skipper Course

12/02 Training

Ways to Learn navigation before your Day Skipper Practical Course

How to pass your RYA Day Skipper with Flying Colours Day Skipper Practical is the next step up the RYA qualification ladder in terms

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Eve off the Hangman in New Grimsby Sound, Scillies top ten anchorages

27/01 Special Voyages

Top Ten Anchorages in the Scillies

Top ten anchorages in the Scillies If you’re lucky and have signed up for an Isles of Scilly sailing holiday with us, you might

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Learning to sail should be fun

11/01 Training

RYA Competent Crew Syllabus

The Aim of the RYA Competent Crew (Practical Course)  To introduce the complete beginner to cruising and to teach personal safety, seamanship and helmsmanship (steering a

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Active adventure sailing holidays with Classic Sailing

24/10 No Experience required

Sail a Tall Ship – Yes you can be Tall Ship Crew

No Experience Required – we make it easy to sail on tall ships. How much fun is it? Its exciting, active ‘hands on fun’,

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Three masted square sailed barque.

19/10 Training

Tenacious Sail Plan

Unique British Design Tenacious (and her smaller sister ship Lord Nelson) are the only two of their kind in the world that have been

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Working aloft in South Georgia, Antarctica

05/10 No Experience required

Ethos – All our holidays include ‘Hands On’ Sailing

Hands on Sailing On a Classic Sailing voyage you become the crew on brigs, brigantines, barques, schooners, pilot cutters, trading ships, luggers, privateers, sailing

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