This summer was targetted for doing the RYA Competent Crew Course so first task was to select a training school. You can get lists from the RYA web site but it may prove easier looking at other sites such as Sail Scotland and Visit Scotland.

My criteria were:

• West coast of Scotland location


• Short journey to start location


• Reasonable cost with no hidden costs


• Small company or family firm


• Nice boat


• Good web site and that can be viewed from Firefox

With these criteria, getting a short list of two or three schools was easy, and once Second Wind Sailing had a special offer price of £300 with no extras that clinched it. They were nice people to deal with and sorting out the booking was easy. The boat, Chewsy, a Moody 41, based out of Troon on the west coast of Scotland was great.


See photos on the main seb site.


I expect we will be back again once day Skipper theory has been tackled.