Rupert Emerson is your chief instructor.

Rupert's experience of teaching sailing includes dinghies and yachts, practical and theoretical.  His experience in sailing in a wide range of conditions in different countries including the Mediterranean, Brazil, Japan and New Zealand will be particularly valuable if you are planning to sail overseas.  You can find out all about him by visiting www.kippatravels.com. Or why not buy the book, Skippering Kippa, available directly from Rupert or via the Amazon website, which tells of his circumnavigation of Britain in 2007. Rupert is qualified as follows:

• Shorebased theory instructor for Day Skipper, Yachtmaster Coastal and Yachtmaster® Offshore

• Cruising Instructor

• Commercially endorsed Yachtmaster®

Rupert is also an experienced business trainer, see www.abingerresearch.com, who has developed training courses of many kinds, using the principle that each individual on a course can contribute to the group so that everyone learns together in a friendly, co-operative environment. 

Phil Hardyman is our Marine Radio specialist.

The Principal of ABC Sailing, Rupert Hugh Emerson, sailing a Hallberg Rassy with its asymmetric, in the North Sea.

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