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About Us
"Our commitment is in providing you with an enjoyable sailing experience and we are only too happy to discuss ideas with you."
South West Yacht Charters is a family owned company established by Helen Punch in January 2000. Chardonnay Coast Sailing is our RYA sailing school division.
Helen
 Helen looks after all the administration, the crew and the instructors!!! Helen aims to provide the best learn to sail holidays on the South West Coast. Helen owns South West Yacht Charters and is committed to providing a quality experieince
Helen's standards are:
- Having the newest yachts available surveyed to Western Australian Government standards.
- Professional Yachtmaster Instructors.
- Providing value for money live aboard courses and holidays.
- Providing quality wet weather and safety equipment.
- Having an absolute commitment to customer service.
- You can email or phoe Helen seven days a week
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Don
Don is the school principle and is a yachtmaster instructor and holds a Master Class 5 commercial sailing qualification. This combination of qualifications means Don has met the exacting requirements of the RYA as well as the West Australian Government. He has sailed the west coast of Australia, Queensland, the Med and the Irish sea. Don has sailed for over 30 years and completed in races as well as long distance cruising passages. He has well over 40,000 cruising miles and knows the West Australian Coast intimatly. Don appreciates safety as the most important consideration but is excellent at training for heavy weather conditions. |
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Gary
Gary is a yachtmaster instructor from Gibralter. He has sailed for many years in the UK and the med. He has raced many types of yachts and cruised the English coast as well as Western Australia and Queensland . Gary is great fun and chilled out. Students really like going out with him and he gets lots of great feedback. Gary is excellent on navigation and sail trim having raced and he has no equal when it comes to boat handling. Gary will have you really confident in your berthing and yacht handling and make you the talk of the local yacht clubs.
Gary has over twenty years experieince with the Royal Navy, holds a Western Australian Commercial Coxswain certificate and is amongst the West's most qualified sailing instructors |
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Nick
Nick has had a career change as a cruising instructor and took up sailing after doing a leg of the round the world clipper race from Durban to Frremantle. Nick has also sailed extensively in the UK. Since then he has sailied in the Sydney- Hobart and undertaken racing yacht deliveries from Melbourne to Busselton. In his former life he was a viticulturalist so with wine and sailing he is great company!! Nick has a West Australian Coxswain certificate as well as his RYA qualifications so you can be assured of both a commitment to safety and sailing excellence.
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Our Sailing School
Chardonnay Coast Sailing is recognised by the Royal Yachting Association. We deliver courses from beginner to Yachtmaster and can take you all the way to a commercial yachtmaster qualification. Our courses blend high quality and professional teaching with new, luxury yachts and the best of equipment and programs. We aim to be the best sailing school in Western Australia for both practical courses and shore based theory courses.
We also run team building and management development programs . These programs blend our RYA sailing courses with a range of management development programs to bring out the best in teams. All our team are experienced in senior management roles.
We are available seven days a week and your welcome to call us about your sailing plans
Telephone 61 8 97217664 or email by clicking the contact button below
 
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