Craig Brown - PRINCIPAL
Yachting, Dinghies, windsurfing, and catamarans as well as powerboats have kept me busy most of my life. Experience mainly around the race course with club racing and many Falmouth and Cork weeks, Spi-Ouest, Swan, Cork 1720 Europeans, Fastnet, 4 seasons racing in the Cornish offshore group also sports-boats and J-24s . Cruising so far includes the south coast of England, Southern Ireland, south of France, Balearics, Spain and Morocco. Teaching experience 12 years as a RYA Dinghy, Keelboat, Catamaran and Powerboat Instructor and 4 years qualified as RYA Cruising Instructor.
CHRIS STONE
Has many years of experience world-wide. A Yachtmaster Practical and Shorebased Instructor.
Chris is also the Skipper of the Falmouth Sail Training Ship - 'Hardiesse', which is a charity.
PAUL ARTHUR
With many years of experience, a Yachtmaster Practical and Shorebased Instructor.
SIMON ROWELL
Simon Rowell has spent the last 13 years as a yachting professional as an instructor
before working for Clipper Ventures both as a round the world race skipper on the winning
boat in 2002 and as an assistant race director in charge of the day to day operations and
all the skipper and crew training for the 2005 race. He is an RYA Ocean Yachtmaster
Instructor and Examiner and spent 2 years at UKSA in Cowes before going back to
University in 2009 to complete an Msc in Meteorology with distinction.
RICHARD RICKARD
Since learning to sail on his father's Redwing in Falmouth Harbour, Richard has gone on to sail everything from dinghies and windsurfers to ocean passage yachts. A fully qualified RYA Yachtmaster Offshore, with commercial and cruising instructor endorsements, he has crewed, skippered, raced and instructed on boats around the world. Most of his experience is around the Solent, south coast of England, Channel Islands and the Channel ports; but he has cruised extensively around the Baltic and the Danish Islands, Northern Ireland and west coast of Scotland, and Gibraltar to Spain. He has skippered a transatlantic leg from Bermuda to New York, which included a couple of days of force 9 gales to test crew resolve! Now living near Mylor he sails his own small gaffer locally, race crews with various friends, helps out with safety boat duties, and is actively involved with Mylor YC, Restronguet SC and the organization of Falmouth Week.
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