Phoenix Yacht Club Ltd. - PYC Sailing Programme 2025

Sailing Programme 2025 summary

The Club put together an exciting sailing and training programme for 2025. There were two Summer Cruises (UK to the Baltic Sea, South West Coast & Isles of Scilly), Boat Handling Training, RYA Training and RYA/MCA Yachtmaster^TMPreparation weeks through the year and Yacht racing.

Please note, these activities are only available to PYC Members (not Introductory Members).

At all other times the boats are available to be booked for ad-hoc cruises and mentoring by Club Skippers and Members. Other trips are already planned to Northern France and the Channel Islands.

Summer Cruise 1 - Baltic Sea

The Baltic cruise was in Quartette involving 3 weeks going to Kiel, a total of 500nm, which is in part delivery from Gosport to the Netherlands and then onwards slower cruising to Kiel. Once in the Baltic there was plenty to explore in the south-west Baltic such as the Islands of Fyn (Funen) or Zealand (Sjaelland) so we changed over in Kiel for some of the 6 Baltic weeks and also go onto Copenhagen. Then there was 3 weeks to get back to Gosport.

Start	Date	Finish	Date
Gosport	Thursday 12th June	Amsterdam	21st June
Amsterdam	21st June	Lauwersoog	28th June
Lauwersoog	28th June	Kiel	5th July
Kiel	5th July	Kiel	12th July
Keil	12 July	Kiel	19th July
Keil	19th July	Kiel	26th July
Keil	26th July	Middelfart	2nd August
Middlefart	2nd August	Copenhagen	9th August
Copenhagen	9th August	Kiel	16th August
Kiel	16th August	Zootkamp	23rd August
Zootkamp	23rd August	Amsterdam	30th August
Amsterdam	30th August	Gosport	Tuesday 9th September

The following screen show pictures include - Baltic Chart, Baltic Island, Baltic scene, Danish Classic boat, Isolated rock, Naskov and Nyborg.

Summer Cruise 2 - South West & Isles of Scilly

The second 2025 Summer Cruise was planned in Relax to the South West and Isles of Scilly.

Start	Date	Finish	Date	Comments
Gosport	5th July	Falmouth	12th July
Falmouth	12th July	Plymouth	19th July	Plan to go to Isles of Scilly
Plymouth	19th July	Plymouth	26th July
Plymouth	26th July	Plymouth	2nd August
Plymouth	2nd August	Gosport	10th August

The following screen show pictures include - Polruan, Porth Mellin, River Fal and Salcombe.

Training & Skill Development Programme

PYC is an RYA Training Centre and as a sea school we are able to provide the following practical courses to our all members: Competent Crew and Day Skipper. We also run Advanced Skipper Training and Development for our Club Skippers: Coastal Skipper and Preparatory courses for the RYA/MCA Yachtmaster^TM Exam (to book onto these skipper courses, you must be a PYC Club Skipper).

In addition, we provide a number of our own courses covering areas such as: Boat Handling, Spinnaker Training and Sail Trimming.

Courses offered in 2025 were as follows:-

Date	Duration	Course	Boat	Instructor
10-11 February	2 weekdays	Boat Handling	Quartette	Tony Riley
24-25 February	2 weekdays	Club Skipper Appraisals	Quartette	Laurent Morlet
1-2 March	2 weekend days	Practical Radar Course	Relax	Andy McGhee
10-11 March	2 weekdays	Boat Handling	Relax	Tony Riley
24-25 March	2 weekdays	Pilotage (day and night)	Quartette	Carolyn Bennett
19-23 March	5 days	RYA Competent Crew / Day Skipper	Quartette	Andy McGhee
29 March - 2 April	5 days	RYA Yachtmaster Prep	Quartette	Laurent Morlet
3-4 April	2 days	RYA Coastal/Offshore Yachtmaster Exam	Quartette	RYA Examiner
12-13 April	2 weekend days	Boat Handling	Quartette	Carolyn Bennett
26-30 May	5 weekdays	RYA Coastal Skipper	Relax	Andy McGhee
11-15 September	5 days	RYA Competent Crew / Day Skipper	Quartette	Carolyn Bennett
20-21 September	2 weekend days	Boat Handling	Relax	TBD
27-31 October	5 weekdays	RYA Coastal Skipper / Yachtmaster Prep	Quartette	Andy McGhee
1-2 November	2 weekend days	RYA Coastal/Offshore Yachtmaster Exam	Quartette	Examiner

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Sailing Programme 2025 summary

Summer Cruise 1 - Baltic Sea

Summer Cruise 2 - South West & Isles of Scilly

Training & Skill Development Programme