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Experience the excitement & adventure of offshore sailing

As part of the worldwide Scouting movement, we share and aim to supplement the objectives of The Scout Association.

Scouting exists to actively engage and support young people in their personal development, empowering them to make a positive contribution to society.

Here at Adventures Offshore, we achieve these objectives by providing young people with the opportunity to participate in what we believe to be a uniquely adventurous and exciting activity in a challenging environment. As an organisation, we aim:

• To offer an introduction to the excitement and adventure of offshore sailing to young people from a wide range of backgrounds, including those who have special educational and social needs.
• To teach the skills of seamanship and to offer RYA practical courses in the cruising scheme under the direction of qualified instructors.
• To create opportunities for personal development in a physically challenging environment and to instil initiative and leadership skills.
• To provide the basis for a communal experience on board ship in which teamwork and cooperation are at least as important as self reliance, toughness and individual fortitude.
• To encourage an awareness of the beauty of the natural world, particularly the sea in all its changing moods and everyone's place in that world.

Why sail training?

We believe that offshore sailing provides the perfect environment for young people to "learn by doing" and the development of personal confidence, team working and other important life-skills.

In 2007 the University of Edinburgh undertook a study into “The Characteristics and Value of the Sail Training Experience”, which makes for interesting reading and highlights the benefits to participants of a sail training voyage.

Read the full report here >>

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