Director, Richard Howell, is a Maritime Coastguard Agency/Royal Yachting Association Yachtmaster Examiner and Instructor.
He continues to examine candidates on behalf of the MCA/RYA for the Yachtmaster Scheme, and provides sailing instruction at all levels including RYA courses, professional sail training, and individual tuition.
He provides shore-based instruction in RYA Day Skipper and Coastal Skipper Theory and VHF/SRC Radio Courses etc., and is also a RYA Dinghy Instructor.
Having completed a successful 30-year career as a senior police officer, he combined his management, training, and sailing skills to establish his own Yachting Company and RYA Recognised Training Establishment. He is also a director of Smart Teams Ltd. (www.smart-teams.com) providing teamwork training on yachts.
With qualified crew- members and Yachtmaster Instructor skippers now ‘on the books’ he does still believe in retaining that ‘hands on experience’ and continues to deliver a personal service whenever possible.
He has personally provided services to recognised RYA Sea Schools in the UK, Croatia, Gibraltar, Menorca and the Canary Islands. He continues to provide own boat tuition, yacht deliveries particularly around the UK, Biscay and Mediterranean, and still continues leading an annual flotilla around the Greek Islands.
He sailed in the UK, Belgium, France, Channel Islands, Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, Corsica, Sardinia, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Canary Islands, Caribbean Islands, and Sydney & the Whitsunday Islands, Australia.
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. All crewmembers we employ have been positively vetted and attended RYA training courses provided by ourselves.
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