Bursary for Professional Yacht Engineer course

The Shipwrights Charitable Fund makes grants to maritime charities, youth organisations and provides bursaries to help young people undertake sail training voyages.

The Shipwrights Ark Bursary will fund a bursary of £2000 to assist a deserving student to undertake the Professional Yacht Engineers course at UKSA in October 2010.

The funds will be allocated to suitably deserving case, who otherwise could not have afforded to attend a UKSA professional career training course. Anyone aged 18 – 25 can apply for this funding irrespective of race, gender or background.

More information on our Professional Yacht Engineers course and a Shipwrights Ark Bursary application form can be found on the UKSA website. If you have any further questions, give our Course Advisory team a call on 01983 203038.

Spend time at UKSA with Aiming High funding

The Isle of Wight Council and NHS Isle of Wight are providing a range of planned short breaks for disabled children, thanks to funding from the Aiming High for Disabled Children scheme.

UKSA can provide support to help put the fun back into family time by offering funded activity days for children and their carers! Exciting activities include keelboating, dinghy sailing, yachting, kayaking and windsurfing.

As a parent or carer, it is understandable that you would be worried about your child’s safety. At UKSA safety is at the forefront of all that we do. The range and quality of watersports and sailing equipment is tailored for many disabilities.

For more information or to book onto an activity, please contact Alix on 01983 203046.

Discount on MCA Courses

If you’ve completed a yachting career course at UKSA, we can now offer you 5% discount on our MCA courses (excludes STCW 95 individual modules).

With training options such as Officer of the Watch and Master 500gt, we have a range of courses ideal for anyone wanting to gain further qualifications.

What’s more if you have already completed a MCA course with us, sign up for another and we will be able to offer you something extra! If you’re interested and want to take advantage of these offers, give our course advisory team a call or 01983 203038.

New Commercial Yachtmaster Course for October 2010

Due to the huge demand for our Commercial Yachtmaster course we have now programmed in a NEW course beginning 25th October!

This is a great option if your exam results were not what you were expecting and you want an alternative to university whether for a career change or gap year afloat.

With a mixture of shore based and sea training, our Commercial Yachtmaster course will give you the skills, knowledge and seamanship needed for a successful and rewarding career. The added bonus of the course starting in October is that you will face some challenging weather conditions at sea, helping you develop your skills even further.

With time off at Christmas for some well deserved R&R and limited spaces available, ring our course advisory team on 01983 203038 or visit the UKSA website ASAP for more information or to book.

BKA compete in Round Britain and Ireland Race

Starting on Monday 23rd August, 11 BKA sailors are competing in the RORC Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland race aboard ‘John Merricks II’.

The sailors have been heavily involved with organising all aspects of their campaign and preparing for the challenges that lie ahead. The latest BKA video will give you a taster of how they have done this.

More information on the race can be found on the BKA website. From Monday, you will be able to keep up to date with BKA’s progress with the online race tracker and BKA blog.