Commercial Yachtmaster Useful Information, RYA Yachtmaster Training, ISA Yachtmaster Training, Yachtmaster Offshore with Commercial Endorsement, Fast Track Professional Maritime Training, Cork Ireland

RYA & ISA 15, 22 Week or Personalised Commercial Yachtmaster Intensive Training Course

well what can i say...im a yachtmaster!and its all thanks to niall and gail.ive spent the last 6months of my life with some amazing people and visiting some brilliant place and it was all done from a yacht...something i never thought i would do!niall is such a nice instructor he seems to know from the start what you can do and he keeps you doing your best.he had us out in winds up to force 9 managed to make something i had no interest or experiance in all my life become a passion.now im waiting to get my own boat so i can head back to adrigole and see can i beat niall in a few races with all the things he has tought me. and well we all know i couldnt have made it without gails kind words, thoughtfulness and of course brilliant cooking when we were back on land!!

fiona xx

Commercial Yachtmaster 2010

I had dropped out of collage after 2 years of an Engineering degree as I couldn't see myself either finishing it or using it for work.
So I was 22 with no permanent work or qualifications when I stumbled upon this course and I couldn't be happier.
Not only did I have a fantastic time on the course but I now have a skill and qualification that can get me a job that I will enjoy rather that just put up with.
I now look forward to the future rather that dread it.
Every day of the course I had a great day and knew that I was learning a lot.
Both Niall and Gail were great throughout the course and I defiantly got more out of it than I had expected.
I would recommend it to anyone.
Hugh
Commercial Yachtmster 2010

Thank you so much Niall and Gail. You have gone out of your way to ensure we all had a brilliant 6 months. I cant believe I have gone from having next to no sailing experience to feeling absolutely comfortable and confident skippering a boat by day and night. I have spent the last 6 months smiling and you have taught me a skill that makes me truly happy so that I can keep on grinning away! It feels wrong to be on land on a Monday (it's been all of 2 days!) so have just been excepted on an Atlantic crossing.
Fionnuala
Commercial Yachtmaster 2010

What a 6 months it has been! It's amazing to think of just how little I knew when I arrived in Adrigole in September and now look at me! I really felt we were prepared for the shore-based exams at Christmas and for the practical. Niall, Kuba & Simon are fantastic instructors - very patient!!
Hope to see you soon.
Jen

I would like to thank you all very much for the highly professional course you ran over the winter. It was a fantastic experience which I would not have missed for the world (I just which I could do the course again next year). The instructors that work at the centre are very professional and have really helped me through the Yachtmaster exams without making it feel like work. I hope to be back soon to do further courses.
Best Wishes
Alex

I was looking for a complete career change when I stumbled across West Cork Sailing on a Google search. I liked what I saw straight away and after a few quick e-mails and phone calls to Gail, I signed myself up. I'd done my level 1 dinghy cert way back about 12 years ago, so I was a beginner once again when I arrived in September, but I thoroughly enjoyed sailing their Feva fleet and got up to level 3, which is when we started on the keel boats.
The keel boats bridged the gap between hooning along in little plastic dinghies and sailing a yacht with the proper care, love and attention it needs! So in these I started to learn how to sail properly, reading the wind and so on. Kuba also made sure we knew our man overboard drills upside down and back to front!
Then of course we graduated onto Jessy, the grown-up yacht, and Simon and Niall prepared us thoroughly for the big final exam. So thoroughly in fact, that on the day of the exam itself I wasn't at all nervous and breezed through it. I couldn't believe when it was all over with!
All in all, I had an absolutely fantastic 6 months in Adrigole, and West Cork Sailing did a fantastic job in turning me from a complete novice to someone who is happy and confident to sail anything that's thrown at me.
Thanks again,
Kate

“I think completing the Yachtmaster course with West Cork Sailing was one of the most enjoyable and exciting things I have ever done. With a small course number you get a dedicated tuition service and a real close knit feel to the whole centre. With additional courses such as fire fighting and sea survival for example the course teaches you so much more than how to sail a boat from A to B. I also found myself in extremely challenging situations throughout, from experiencing a storm at sea with force 10 winds and 30ft waves to dealing with other people and personalities in close confines. No day is ever the same and you really get to see what you’re made of. I would recommend the course to anyone interested in sailing or life at sea, be it as a career move or for your leisure. I certainly enjoyed every minute of it and haven’t looked back and with this recession crumbling all around us what better time to just “Sail Away”.
Neil Gallagher,
Yachtmaster ’09.