Courses on design and construction of simple model racing yachts, suitable for building by children are going to be the next in thing offered by hobby classes. Constructing a model yacht is an ideal way to build up skills in working with a range of materials – skills that may later be the basis of a career in engineering or manufacturing technology. It’s also, more importantly, fun.

Creating anything is fun, after all. When you create a model yacht it has life and beauty of its own when you …

“If I really want to learn to know someone, I go sailing with him. Here it goes ten times faster than ashore. Regarding the processes in a company, I don’t know any other kind of sport which trains team spirit, responsibility and fitting in a community so excellently.”

A ship is the best place to extend one’s horizon. The participants are in the true sense of the word “on the same boat”. Values such as responsibility, reliability and teamwork are not abstract ideas any more.
Training on sailing yachts …

There are various sports, hobbies and other recreational activities parents urge their children to take up. These play a vital role in their personality and overall development. Are you on the lookout for an activity that would offer your child the complete package deal?
Inculcate in him various qualities, teach him self reliance and resilience and of course get creative too? Enrolling your child for sailing lessons is your best answer…
Sailing is not just a sport. It can be enjoyed as a recreational activity as well. When it comes to …

The ‘Optimist‘ is quite simply the dinghy in which the young people of the world learn to sail. Sailed in over 110 countries by over 150,000 young people, it is the only dinghy approved by the International Sailing Federation exclusively for sailors less than 16 years of age.The “Opti” as the young sailors fondly call her is the greatest little boat in the world.Sailing is a lifetime sport where those in the age group of 8 to 80 are practicing the same skills. One of the tasks of the Optimist …

His first words were in response to the question, “Are you a sailor?” Popeye smartly replied, “Ja think I’m a cowboy?”. Popeye the sailorman, with his muscles and his spinach, has since then, become a cultural icon.
It was an eventful Sunday evening when Team Giira got talking to a couple of sailors from around the world at the Vasco da Gama Rally party. We chatted up with the hearty lot about all the many adventures they’ve had to what it takes to be a true sailor!
“Sometimes God calms the storm, …

“Like so many yachtsmen, I started this adventure with the least possible amount of money and the highest possible set of goals.”Robin Knox-Johnston retells the story of his solo (non-stop) circumnavigation of the world in his book ‘A World Of My Own’.For any newly hatching yachtsmen, and all people who take up sailing, it is so inspiring to read about people like Robin Knox-Johnston. It is not by chance that he was awarded the British knighthood in 1995.
We feel proud to present Sir Robin Knox Johnston and his legendary yacht …

How would you define passion? What if you could look at a race going on and you wouldn’t see anything to let you know the sailors are blind? Well, that’s how I’d describe passion! To sail. To spread a wing in the air and soar. No internal power. No fuel, just atmospheric energy. The only motion created by the elements of wind and water. To some humans, sailing calls as powerfully as the ancient lure of flight itself, and to those who pursue it, the passion only increases. Can you …

“Sailing must be the most underrated sport of all time. Although it does not have the instant gratification of motorised sport sought by adrenaline junkies or the forced mate-ship of team games, sailing has long term rewards that far exceed either. Non-sailors seem to view sailing with suspicion as some mysterious art-form that must be passed on genetically. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
SAILING AND CHILDREN
Sailing is simply one of those life skills, like riding a bicycle or swimming. It can be learnt in an hour or two for …