by First Class Sailing | May 28, 2019 | Sailing Holidays, Sailing Tales, Sailing Trips
Luxury yacht Santosa is currently taking couples on sailing holidays around the beautiful settings that Norway has to offer. Below is the skipper’s latest blog, however, if you’re thinking of booking onto one of the remaining adventures you’ll find the whole...
by First Class Sailing | May 24, 2019 | Sailing Holidays, Sailing Tales, Sailing Trips, Santosa
Santosa’s first voyage in the Norway programme started from her home base in Southampton bound for Bergen. The plan was to cross the North Sea taking into consideration weather and passage time with an option to make Stavanger our first Norwegian port. The...
by First Class Sailing | May 21, 2019 | Fastnet Race, Sailing Tales
This race is a real sailing race that has plenty of history behind it and is also a qualifier for the Rolex Fastnet which First Class Sailing always has at least one 16 strong crew participating in. The Race Is All About Tides The first leg of the Myth...
by First Class Sailing | Apr 30, 2019 | Learn to Sail, Sailing Tales
Shelley Jory-Leigh & Sir Robin Knox-Johnston The art of navigation has been given a massive boost in 2019 thanks to 73-year-old French sailor Jean-Luc van den Heede who completed the Golden Globe Race 2018. In 211 days and 23 hours he sailed single-handedly...
by First Class Sailing | Jan 24, 2019 | Learn to Sail, RYA Day Skipper, Sailing Tales
Taking the helm As a school, First Class Sailing can cater for the wide variety of skills aspiring sailors require. There are some who like to be a member of the crew, not quite a passenger but willing to share group responsibility. Others want to improve,...
by First Class Sailing | Jan 21, 2018 | Atlantic Adventures, Sailing Tales
The FCS crew on Challenger 2 can almost feel the dry land and taste wet beer that awaits in Horta or this leg from Antigua to Portsmouth Harbour. First update comes from the mate and that will be followed by the crew’s musing. Will tinned sweetcorn get a...
