Experience Requirements
What Experience Do I Need?
3 easy questions to answer:
- Do you have experience navigating?
- Do you have experience anchoring in tidal zones?
- Do you have experience with sail handling?
The Long Version:
There are certain sailing area around the world that are ideal cruising zones for the less experienced with vast anchorages and protected boating grounds. Experience requirements very from destinations and although some are easier than others you still require general boating knowledge. You will be given a comprehensive briefing and have the opportunity to take a skipper / sailguide for the first half day or more if you need to refresh your skills or get your confidence up. Experience with sails is required to charter a sail boat. Operators have varying levels of experience requirements and we can recommend the right one for you or a sailing school nearby!
Great ways of demonstrating your experience is if you:
- Are or have been a boat owner
- Previous charterer
- Experience with sails on smaller vessels
- Qualified – motorboat licence or sailing qualification
- Experience as skipper as opposed to crew is also important, and some competent crew is also important!
Your experience will be verified through the sailing paperwork required to be completed upon booking. If your skills are little rusty, a sailguide might be required to get you back to speed! or usk us to refer you to a sailing school that does 'Bareboat Familiarisation' courses.
Don’t forget that even if you have boating experience, we can arrange a fully private crewed charter to take away the stress – you can take control if you like, and hand over when it is time to relax! We have solutions to everyone’s needs!
Tip:
- Some destinations offer pilots to take you in and out of tricky marinas!
