Sea Schools

East Anglian Sea School was founded in 1973, starting life as a small family business called East Anglian School of Sailing that has since grown into one of the foremost Royal Yachting Association (RYA) sea schools in the country having trained over one thousand adults in 2006 alone, with an excellent reputation built on the quality of the training, facilities, craft and catering.

Thirty Four years later it is still owned by the second generation of the same family and has been around for as long as the Royal Yachting Association training scheme.

We are based in East Anglia at Suffolk Yacht Harbour on the river Orwell 2 miles from the Sea at Levington near Ipswich in Suffolk with good road and rail links and the marina is well signposted from the main routes.

The school has 45 mature, patient and experienced instructors, qualified to the highest standards in Sailing, Motor Cruising, Power Boating and Dinghy sailing.

Training is run using a fleet of “strata” yachts, motorcruisers, powerboats and dinghies from Beneteau, Jeaneau, Moody, Fairline, Ribeye, Wayfarer and Laser, all maintained to MCA standards.

A wide range of courses are on offer, to cater for people new to boating right through to experts, in all areas from start yachting or Helmsman’s courses, Competent crew, Day Skipper through to Coastal Skipper and on to Yachtmaster and Yachtmaster Ocean and are run all year round, on weekends as well as during the week.

One of the Sea Schools specialities is own boat tuition, where we put an experienced instructor on to a customers own boat (yachts, motorboats, sports boats or ribs) and will teach whatever the customer wishes.

Understanding the electronics, radar, GPS, chartplotter, Isaf Personal survival or RYA diesel engine or mca thirty hour approved engine course AEC. Close quarter boat handling, manoeuvring in confined spaces and marina mooring are all popular with people on their own boats. We can also teach any of the RYA practical courses on a customers own boat for up to four people which often works out cheaper and is more convenient.

Yachts are also available for bareboat charter and skippered charter, for corporate hospitality or Team Building. Racing Cork Week, Cowes Week or evern the Little Brittain Challenge Cup.Taster sailing sessions and long distance passages can also be arranged.

The East Coast is ideally situated to provide top quality yachting and motorboating opportunities. With its miles of rivers and proximity to the continent, uncrowded waters and opportunities for pilotage and navigational practice it really is the yachtsman or motorboaters ideal location.

There are plenty of marinas to provide an overnight stay or an opportunity to practise close quarter manoeuvring and boat handling in confined spaces. Ipswich and Shotley Marinas both have locks which beginners (both sailors and motorboaters) tend to fear and avoid, until they have been taken through them and realise that there isn’t too much to worry about.

Whichever way the wind blows there is always somewhere to go. The rivers Orwell, Stour, Deben, Blackwater, Colne and Crouch are all within easy reach and provide interesting scenery and good boating. While the Walton Backwaters is a well known bird sanctuary and beauty spot, it is also a good place to practice sailing skills.

So whatever level of experience you have and whether you are looking for commercial qualifications or purely wish to learn for pleasure, the East Coast of England has it all. Gift Vouchers are available to give someone a Sailing/Motor Cruising course as a present.

East Anglian sea school is a Musto sailing clothing and Musto country clothing dealer.

You can contact the sea school as follows:

Telephone 01473 659992

E-Mail sales@eastanglianseaschool.com

East Anglian Sea School

Suffolk Yacht Harbour

Levington

Suffolk

England

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