Albufeira, Portugal

Nov 3, 2011

Coastal Skipper's Revenge!! This course had everything!!! Little did we know when Martyn Chris and Andy joined us to complete their Coastal Skipper practical course what was to lie ahead. Well it wasn't just Martyn Chris and Andy that joined the boat on Friday evening - a nasty little "tummy bug" did too! Alice was insistant that it was nothing to do with her cooking, the pasta was lovely, well done to her, but the bug did take it...

Albufeira, Portugal

Nov 3, 2011

The end of October saw the summer change to autumn and with it the weather had a hic up, to start with the wind blew the roof off Faro airport, so guess it was breezey then and it rained a bit, but, it was warm rain followed by big blue bits. Mark, Penny & Jordan joined Osprey for a 5 day Competent Crew course having never stepped on a boat before. After a full briefing we were off for our first sail and Jane came along too - see she can ...

Albufeira, Portugal

Nov 3, 2011

October 2011, saw a busy Complete Day Skipper Course with Mark, David, Trevor and Tim enjoying 4 days in the classroom before putting it all into practise out on Osprey. Armed with tidal calculations, estimated positions and course to steer knowledge we were off to the likes of Vilamoura, Portimao, Praia de Rocha, Lagos and back to Albufeira. As the picture shows, healthy eating was the order of the day and the weather for late summer/autumn ...

Albufeira, Portugal

Oct 1, 2011

The PSP Southampton Boat Show September 2011. After all the preparation and planning we have just completed exhibiting at the Southampton Boat Show and after a very apprehensive pre show build up we had a brilliant show and "nailed it" with the help of Lizzie, Freya, Alice and Dave, Patrick and Kevin looking after things back in Portugal. We took the Santander - Portsmouth ferry, which meant that we only had 700 miles to drive from...

Albufeira, Portugal

Sep 7, 2011

Hi Mark, Jane When we booked our course with Learn2Sail we didn't really know what to expect or what we'd be expected to know, so we just packed our sense of humour and came along. What we got was a lot of knowledge and a fantastic experience which has left us yearning to do more! I will be back to do the Day Skipper course early next year - I really can't take another week off this year :o( I know our course was called Competent Crew b...