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We also operate corporate events – take a look at our main site reached via the About us page.

Our Book A Berth clients are a very mixed bunch. Happily for us, they are a very likeable bunch, too.

Maybe it’s sailing in general that attracts thoughtful, balanced, sociable people. Our kind of sailing certainly does. More than a few real friendships (and one or two romances) have resulted from our trips.

To look at it another way: In the six years we have been running these events, we have had only one client who we’ve not wanted to see on board again. He doesn’t get our emails, and happily hasn’t pestered us to do more sailing.

But if you’re looking for reassurance about who you’ll be sharing your cabin with, you probably want to know something more specific. So what more can we tell you? Well ...

We attract more men than women, but most crews include at least a couple of women and occasionally the numbers are evenly balanced.

The age range goes from mid-teens to 50s - though 16-year-old Liam is, we admit, less typical of our clientele than his greying dad (sorry, Rowan). The average age, probably, is thirtysomething going on 40.

Discover Yachting clients aside, our typical client is a Day Skipper or thereabouts – someone who knows how to sail but wants to develop their skills and experience in a more exciting and yet more relaxed setting than a sailing school. (We have had crews consisting entirely of Day Skippers.) But we also have clients with very little experience, and others of Yachtmaster standard.

We get people from all walks of life. Not surprisingly, they are generally fairly well heeled, and don’t need to count the pennies when the time comes to choose a restaurant ashore. But neither we nor our guests are inclined to extravagance, either, and the restaurant chosen is often a pub or a curry house. Quite a few of our sailors run their own businesses.