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Director Richard Howell
MCA/RYA Yachtmaster Examiner
and Instructor and Director of
SmartTeamsLtd
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Director Michelle Howell
MCA/RYA Yachtmaster and
Cruising Instructor
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A family firm established over 16 years ago, directors Richard and Michelle both previously enjoyed long and successful careers in the police service. They later combined their management, training and sailing skills to establish their own Yachting Company and RYA Recognised Training Establishment, specialising in training tailored to the needs of the individual. They both provide first point of contact for their online navigation theory courses.
Richard has over 70,000 miles experience skippering yachts and still enjoys providing that personal service, delivering yachts or providing sailing instruction or skippered charters, whenever possible. He continues to conduct Yachtmaster Examinations on behalf of the RYA/MCA throughout UK, the Mediterranean, and the Canary Islands. He is Chief Instructor at Menorca Cruising.
His popular Yachtmaster Preparation Courses continue to be in demand by those seeking to pass their Yachtmaster Exam.
He is a Dinghy, Powerboat, First Aid and VHF/SRC Radio Instructor.
He is also a director of Smart Teams Ltd., providing team work training on yachts in the Solent and around the UK.
Michelle, now a veteran of UK and Mediterranean waters is now a Yachtmaster Cruising Instructor and enjoys passing on her experience to students, whether on formal courses, family charters, or yacht deliveries.
Their company continue to provide sailing instruction at all levels including RYA courses, professional sail training, individual yachtmaster training, family tuition, own boat tuition and yacht deliveries. They personally provide services to recognised RYA sea schools in the UK, Croatia, Gibraltar, Menorca and the Canary Islands.
As a team they have extensive sailing experience around the UK, France, Channel Islands, Biscay, Gibraltar, Canary Islands, throughout the Mediterranean, Caribbean Islands and Australia.
Both are the primary tutors with their ONLINE Navigation theory Courses. With their vast practical experience, they are able to provide well balanced friendly advice and expertise both from a practical as well as theoretical point of view.
Our associate skippers are all highly experienced Yachtmaster Examiners or Yachtmaster Instructors with many thousands of miles experience who, having led one previous successful career in the private or public sector, have now transferred their skills and experience into the sailing industry.
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