Three or four times a season one of us writes down something a student asked, usually because the next six people will ask it too.
Ellen Rowse, 4 September 2026
The slip at Church Quay has water over it for about nine hours in twelve, and the hours move forward by roughly fifty minutes a day. This is why one Start Sailing course begins at half past eight and the next one, a fortnight later, begins after lunch — and why we send your times a week ahead instead of printing them in March.
Tom Rowse, 21 July 2026
Nobody needs to spend two hundred pounds in a chandlery before their first weekend. Here is the layering that actually works on a cold spring morning, the one thing people always forget, and what is hanging in the hut for you to borrow.
Ellen Rowse, 2 May 2026
What eight to fifteen-year-olds actually do across five mornings in July: rigging on day one, a capsize they have asked for by Wednesday, and a race on Friday that the instructors are not allowed to win.
If there is a question these notes do not answer, send it over. Answers to good ones tend to end up on this page later in the season.