The club runs training events for less experienced members - and those wishing to refresh their skills - under the watchful eye of Commodore / YachtMaster Andy Hobson.
2025
Training week April 2025
Solicitors swapped their law volumes for the Channel Pilot and Nautical Almanac as they completed the first Royal Yachting Association training courses to be organised by the Law Society Yacht Club. The course was run by solicitor advocate turned yachtmaster instructor (and club commodore) Andy Hobson in a chartered Bavaria 36, inappropriately named No Optimist. Gazette news editor Michael Cross came along as first mate and cook - and to receive some much needed catch-up tuition.
In four days of glorious sunshine, the students covered the day skipper syllabus and more, taking in passage-planning, boat-handling under sail and power and general seamanship in the always interesting waters of the Solent. Highlights included a buoy-hopping night exercise, scraping up the Beaulieu river just after low tide and a bracing beat home to windward past the treacherous Bramble Bank. Not to mention a couple of jolly evenings in waterside pubs.Solicitors swapped their law volumes for the Channel Pilot and Nautical Almanac as they completed the first Royal Yachting Association training courses to be organised by the Law Society Yacht Club. The course was run by solicitor advocate turned yachtmaster instructor (and club commodore) Andy Hobson in a chartered Bavaria 36, inappropriately named No Optimist. Gazette news editor Michael Cross came along as first mate and cook - and to receive some much needed catch-up tuition.
