Not about the quantity. About what you do with what is left, yes. Exhaustion attacks your judgement first, and it does so before you notice it has gone. That is why we work with decisions taken in advance: fixed if-then rules for reefing, changing course, turning back, and calling for help. At three in the […]
Five typical doors: The first long passage alone. The first night without a watch change is a different kind of night. The solo race or the record attempt. Weeks of load, in which no one day can rescue another. The incident that stayed with you. Damage, a capsize, a night you would rather not think […]
It is a tool, and we make it a better one. What you say to yourself when a manoeuvre goes wrong decides how quickly you are able to act again. Alone, nobody is listening and nobody contradicts you, so your own tone stands unchallenged. That is precisely why we work on it.
One of the trickiest configurations, and we raise it openly at the outset. A session in which everyone says only what the owner wants to hear is time thrown away.
Hybrid, like almost everything we do. Ashore we work on roles, communication and decision paths, because for that a quiet room and a table beat twenty degrees of heel. On board we test whether it holds under pressure. Between and after, the support runs digitally. Whether we sail with you depends on availability and on […]
The mental harbour manoeuvre training and the mental passage preparation. Neither encroaches on anything you already do, and both position your school as innovative, because mental training has barely featured in sailing so far. Whoever offers it first has it to themselves.
In Germany, a good 3,000 coastal skipper tickets are issued each year, and the trend is downwards: in 2013 it was 5,209, by 2022 only 3,306. Very few graduates go on to take charge of a vessel on their own responsibility. Not because they lack the seamanship, but because the training does not deal with […]
We tell them their nautical training is complete. What is missing is not training, it is practice in carrying responsibility. That does not devalue your course, it makes it effective.
Because a crew is more than the sum of its sailors. What you are buying is not the individual head, it is what happens between the heads. A nervous tactician infects the calmest helm; a frantic bow tears up the best tactics.
The shared rhythm. A crew that works well together has a shared resting pulse, and that can be trained like the trim of the boat. A crew wins not with the fastest boat, but with the calmest radio traffic on board.