The Ocean Sailing Club What We Do
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Sail Training
Getting started...
RYA Start Yachting
£220/$440
1 live-aboard weekend
RYA Competent Crew
£440/$880
2 live-aboard weekends
Yachtmaster Practical
£220/$440
Exam Coaching live-aboard weekends
RYA Theory...
RYA Yachtmaster Theory
£495/$990
3 weekends 8-4pm
RYA Yachtmaster Ocean Theory
£495/$990
10 4-hr standalone modules
Ocean Sailing...
RYA Watch-leader
Sydney-Southport
7 days 500 miles
£585/$1050
Southport-Hamilton Is
7 days 500 miles
£585/$1050
Hamilton Is-Southport
6 days 500 miles
£585/$1050
Southport-Sydney
6 days 500 miles
£585/$1050
Yachtmaster Ocean Qualifier
Sydney-Auckland
2 weeks 1200 miles
£1013/$2026
Brazil- Trinidad
4 weeks 3000 miles
£2026/$4052
Bermuda - Dublin
4 weeks 3200 miles
£2026/$4052
* See pricing note at foot of page
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Training VideosAbout us
Sally and Peter Edington lived aboard their 60-foot yacht Loquax for many years. With their teenage daughters they cruised the Med, the Caribbean and the South Pacific.
By 2013, they felt they should share their knowledge, and their yacht, with anyone who dreams of the Ocean life - and that was the start of The Ocean Sailing Club.
Loquax is now owned by the UK-based non-profit Club and it is Sally and Peter's hope that people from many diverse walks of life will join them on board. The membership is deliberately set at an affordable £30 ($50) per year, which you recoup from any training you do, to make this accessible to as many as possible.
On board, you can experience the joys and master the skills of Ocean Sailing. Feel the thrill of landfall at a distant island, knowing you share this exquisite moment with the great sailors of our time and of history.
The Club has over one hundred members.
Improve your skills with great RYA sailing courses
Through our sailing coach Peter Edington, we can offer you some great opportunities to deepen your knowledge of sailing safely.
Peter is an RYA Ocean Yachtmaster Instructor who will be running monthly practical sail training resulting in RYA certification.
Practical training:
Theory classes:
Relaxed and Ocean Sailing
Go on Club Sailing & Social Events
All through the year, the Club will be arranging a number of weekend (and longer) sailing events. These will range from a Saturday and Sunday inside Sydney Harbour, to overnight passages up to Pittwater, Port Stephens and further afield.
For more information,
Visit our Sailing Calendar or the Expeditions and Holidays page.
Don't forget that anyone can Join The Club for £30/$50 a year.
Community Awareness
Supporting our Oceans with fund raising for Sea-Shepherd
February's Social Sail was to raise money for Sea Shepherd's iconic whale-saving ship, The Steve Irwin.
Needing urgent engine repairs, we raised 0ver $2,500 raised on this fun sailing day for Sea Shepherd. They needed $200,000 to get the Steve Irwin back out there saving whales and protecting our oceans. And our contribution helped make that possible.
Looking forward to hearing from you about any really worthwhile eco- or poverty based fund raising we can help with.
Call Peter on 0405 430 525 to get more details.
Note
In the interests of safety, the yacht will always be under the supervision of a club-approved skipper.
For the club's Social sailing events, the Skipper is supplied by the Club. If you would like to use the Club yacht for your own social events or for group mile-building cruises, we can put you in touch with our Sailing Coach, who will be happy to make sure that your event is run safely (sample costs)
Only registered members of the Ocean Sailing Club are allowed on board the yacht for any sailing event. We will be happy to help you arrange your event or to come on one of the Club's own events. Just email or call us.
* Important Note: As a British-registered non-profit organisation, all transactions are deemed to take place in the UK and under English Law. The Ocean Sailing Club charges membership and product prices in UK pounds, however the club may accept payment in the local currency of where their yacht is at the time. The Club may refer to prices in currencies other than UK Pounds, those prices are indicative only of the actual UK prices and are shown for comparison purposes