Sailing Tuition - Adventure Sailing - Yacht Delivery - Charter - Private Hire Skippers
We are proud to offer a full range of services to the yachting community. From adventure sailing, mile builders, rusty skipper courses and charters onboard our Beneteau Cyclades on the South coast, through to RYA Tuition through affiliated sailing schools, Private skipper hire, and boat deliveries. We work as a team to give you a sailing experience that is tailored to your individual needs. Find out more about us, and how we could help you below.
Sam McClements
A highly experienced and professional RYA Cruising Instructor and Commercially Endorsed RYA Yachtmaster. Sam has been on the water since being a youngster with her grandfather. Sam has owned motorboats and sailboats and enjoys being on or around the water whenever possible.
Moving through the ranks of sailing experience and qualification Sam was also a crew member on the 2017/18 Clipper Round The World Yacht Race helping yacht GARMIN romp home to victory in leg 8 from New York to Liverpool via Derry Londonderry.
Sam is working towards RYA Yachtmaster Ocean having completed the theory in the summer of 2020. She is also an RYA First Aid at Sea Instructor, and an RYA Shorebased Navigation instructor, teaching students up to Offshore Yachtmaster level.
Sam regularly publishes a blog about her adventures at
Steve Hodges
Following an early introduction into all things nautical through attending The London Nautical School in the mid 1990's 'Hodge' took a break from the sport while building a career in IT, having a family and playing club level rugby.
After an extended break, only sailing on corporate events, he then reengaged with the sport after relocating to Chatham, Kent and participating in a number of training courses, mile-builders, social racing and RYA accreditation's.
Now Chief Instructor at Elite Sailing in Chatham, a qualified RYA Yachtmaster Instructor (YMI) and holding the RYA Yachtmaster Ocean theory assessment, he enjoys dividing his time between family time, running a global IT business, yacht deliveries and instructing all levels of the RYA Cruising Scheme.
SY Ruby May
Ruby May is our 11.97m Beneteau Cyclades yacht. She was built in 2007 and has had many upgrades and enhancements over the years, including a full electronics upgrade, many new safety features and equipment, an interior soft furnishing refit and in 2024 a full standing and running rigging replacement.
Capable of ocean going passages and coded commercially for 8 people for trips up to 60 miles off shore she is well built, well equipped and well travelled !!