This is an excellent course for experienced sailors to improve their boat handling skills. This advanced course will cover rigging, tuning, trapezing, hiking, tactics, etc.

This is an excellent opportunity for sailors to build on their existing skills and knowledge.

The Fastnet Marine and Outdoor Education Centre have some of the most experienced coaches in the country, who use the latest equipment and coaching techniques.

We also run organised coaching camps for dinghy classes. If you feel your class could do with some top level coaching, contact us and let us tailor a coaching camp to suit your individual needs.

For first class coaching in any class, why not book a few days of coaching and socialising in one of the best sailing areas in Ireland. From Optimist dinghies to one design keelboats we can put together many topics from boat handling skills, race management/ tactics, rules, tuning, boat speed and class championships.

One of our main class coaching events is for the Optimist class every February with up to 100 boats.

Team racing is a very exhilarating form of sailing. It is fast paced, exciting and action packed! There is no better way to improve your skills in tactical decision making, manoeuvring and learning to use the rules to your advantage then in team racing.

Team racing is where a team of 3 helms and 3 crews race against another team around a short course using the racing rules to get their team into a winning combination. We are renowned for our team racing experience/organisation; we have 18 team racing boats and run inter-school, inter-college and inter team-racing weekends.

Match racing is a very exciting and exhilarating discipline, which is growing world- wide. Match racing is more suited to sailors with some sailing experience as it tests each crews ability and skills and experience to the limit, this is what makes it so challenging.

Team racing where a team of 5 people on one boat race against another team in a similar boat. The boats used in the centre are 1720 keelboats. The team members must use all their skills, knowledge and tactics to keep their boat ahead. This discipline is used in the ‘Americas Cup’ the formula one of sailing.

This is an excellent course for experienced sailors to improve their boat handling skills. This advanced course will covers rigging, tuning, trapezing, hiking, tactics, etc.

This is an excellent opportunity for sailors to build on their existing skills and knowledge.

We are one of the only centres to offer top level coaching to improve your boats performance and crew proficiency, from bow to tactician. We can come aboard your boat and help your crew improve their boat handling skill, enhance your boats performance and help prevent damage through crew error.

We use a 1720 to cater for all levels from youth to adult.