Articles by Jenni

Today has been fantastic, the Race Academy group have enjoyed what is probably the best day on the water we’ve had so far. Plenty of breeze, sunshine and bold sailors, who have spent a day learning all about hiking, planing, reaching, heavy airs sailing and all of it with a few swims and plenty of smiles.

Huge thanks to the coaching team Ffinlo Wright, Ealish Green and Ben Batchelor for delivering an excellent and very successful day on the water in the very challenging conditions. Top job all round!

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Our Race Academy sessions start this weekend. They are perfect for youngsters who have completed RYA Stage 3 and are looking to take the next, exciting step into the competitive side of sailing.

The weekends consist of some top level race coaching, plenty of on the water sessions looking at boat-handling, tactics, strategy and sailing fast.  Competitive sailing is great fun and through these weekends we aim to equip sailors with all the skills and knowledge they need to get out racing at our local Clubs.

You can book online here https://7thwave-iom.com/7th-wave-online-booking/  The weekend fee is £140 per person, including VAT, weekends can be booked individually online.

Or book all four weekends and save £160!!  Please email us directly to book all four weekends at a fee of £400.  Offer only valid until Friday 10 May, so hurry hurry hurry!

Full details and dates for 2019 are on our website here https://7thwave-iom.com/7th-wave-race-academy/

Saturday Sailing for Juniors is on this weekend ?

Briefing is at 10.30am please be in kit and ready to go by 10.30.

Saturday Sessions are all about having fun, improving techniques and practising skills taught in the RYA scheme. Youngsters can enjoy their favourite games, cruises round the bay, catching up with friends and all the usual excitement while becoming independent and confident sailors in a range of weather conditions.

Cost: £25 per person per session, we supply boats, wetsuits and buoyancy aids.

Please drop us a line to let us know you’re coming, or turn up in the morning….

Youth Sailing Week #2: Yet another superb week of sailing, sunshine, breeze and a group of keen, attentive, good sailors.

Our home-grown 7th Wave Instructing team have done a great job over the last fortnight and delivered some quality courses. Alex Daniel Nathan Pickles and Tim Chan all starting their sailing careers at 7th Wave some 10 years ago, now here they are running the show.

Also on the water, the amazing Luke Crowe who showed up here for work experience two years ago and never left. Since then he’s become a Dinghy Instructor and last week qualified as a Powerboat Instructor, oh yes, he was also the Manx Yachting Association’s Young Sailor of the Year award at the end of 2018.

We are proud of them all, and looking forward to what, with this crew, promises to be an excellent summer of Youth Sailing Weeks.

Next available week is TT Practice Week and then from 1st July onwards…

As well as a Youth Sailing Week this week, we’ve also got RYA Powerboat Trainer Tom Pedersen here running an RYA Powerboat Instructor course.

Five candidates are currently out on the water for the final day of the course. They enjoyed some great conditions here, sunshine and a strong easterly giving flat water but some interesting wind shifts in the gusts. THe sun is shining and everyone is wrapped up warm.

Also joining us today is RYA Powerboat Trainer Paul Magee from Ireland, he is here to moderate the course and hopefully sign off five new instructors in a few hours time.

As an aside, the sailing world is very small. Fifteen years ago Jen and Tom studied on the same Maritime Leisure Management course at Solent University. Since then their paths have crossed through the RNLI where Tom was a Trainer at the RNLI College Poole and then on the coast and now here he is at 7th Wave for a few days!

And…. we’ve a new addition to the powerboat fleet too in the form of a 4m Ribeye RIB!

Well, that is the first week of the 2019 season under our belts, and what a great week it has been.

Jen landed on back on the island last Thursday morning after a winter working at Horizon Yacht Charters in the British Virgin Islands. After a quick cuppa at home we were straight to the shed to start getting ready for our first courses of the season.

We are grateful to our wonderful team, Tim Chan and Nathan Pickles did a super job on the boat park getting all the dinghies ready. Juan, Jason and my Dad lending a hand at the shed to get all the vehicles going again. And Mum for flying through the shop like a cleaning tornado!

Three days later we are on the water with our first Youth Sailing Week of 2019. Instructors Tim, Nathan and Luke Crowe ran a superb Seamanship Course for our Assistant Instructor candidates and a fabulous Stage 2 week for our younger sailors.

Port Erin delivered us sunshine, flat water and some great sailing conditions in the easterly breeze. We are feeling truly blessed this week.

Thank you team and thank you sailors – you have been awesome. Here’s hoping the season continues like this.

That’s all folks….. With plenty of wind forecast for this week we’ve taken our boats out of the harbour, masts down and tied everything on to something solid!