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Press Release March 2008

West Cork Sailing and Powerboating Centre
The Boat House, Adrigole, Beara, Co Cork
www.westcorksailing.com info@westcorksailing.com
027 60132 Contact: Gail Mac Allister

100% Pass Rate on Commercial Yachtmaster Training Course

St Patrick brought a bit of good news this weekend for 8 trainees at the West Cork Sailing and Powerboat Centre as bottles of champagne were popped to celebrate the successful completion of this year’s intensive Commercial Yachtmaster course.

All 8 Trainees, who had worked very hard for the last 6 months, passed their exams over the last 5 days. The Yachtmaster Examiner was quoted as saying “Their sailing skills exceptional. I can’t believe that some of them had never sailed before they joined your course”.

The guys at WCSPC are thrilled for the students and are already looking forward to next years course with confidence, having chartered a 72 foot steel challenge yacht to do the mile building section next year.

This is huge achievement for the students, all of them from very different backgrounds, who will now hopefully go on to work within the industry.

• Simon Wilson, a 27 year old entrepreneur from Newtownards wanted to find a new opportunity. He owned his own small yacht and would sail when ever he could take time away from his business interests. This was not often enough, so when Simon found out about the Intensive course available in Ireland he jumped at the chance to invest in a new future. Simon is now training to become a Cruising Instructor and Dinghy Instructor and will be working in West Cork this summer.
• Michael Lillis, a 50 year old Health Service executive from Macroom on a years break who had never sailed before and wanted to do something positive with his career break. He can now confidently charter a boat anywhere in the world and enjoy sailing with his family and friends.
• 21 year old Toni Liebscher, from Germany, wanted to take an alternative route to University and make a career at sea. Now a qualified Commercial Yachtmaster, Toni has already moved on to train as a Dinghy Instructor and will be working in Ireland for the summer at least.
• Sue Enright is a 28 year old IT specialist that decided 2 years ago to fulfil a dream of changing careers from IT programming and training to yacht deliveries and cruising instruction. Sue is a PADI Dive Master as a hobby and wondered if she would ever be able to work as sea for a living. After discovering the West Cork Sailing & Powerboating Centre Commercial Yachtmaster Intensive Training Course, she had made her decision to start saving and join the course a year and a half later. With Sue’s qualifications she now intends to work as a cruising instructor for the summer and head to the Caribbean for the winter.
• John Shanahan is a 43 year old professional welder that has been riding on the wave of the property development boom of Ireland. His skills as an expert welder are still in great demand, but John wanted more fulfilment in his life, so he chose to take the training course. Now he is qualified he plans to split the year between his welding and his new sailing career, delivering yachts.
• Patrick Williams is a 43 year old tile-er that damaged his back. He could no longer tile so he looked for new career options and found this course. Patrick hopes to run day trips on yachts for the summer and will set his sights further a field for the winter.
• 18 year old Phillip O’Reilly saw a poster for the course in his local sailing club, Bray Sailing Club, and decide he would take a Gap Year before starting University. Phillip will now be skippering yachts for the many boats in Dun Laoghaire in his summers while at University.
• Steve Marquart from Durrus took early retirement and has dreams of sailing off into the sunset.

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