The going rate for a Dinghy Instructor?

[Jamesuk]

Hi,

I was asked the other day by someone who wanted to be taught and I could not come up with an hourly rate. A friend said, "how much do you pay for a good plumber per hour? Half that."

What would be a good rate?

Per hour -
Per morning/afternoon session -
Per Day -

Thanks James

 

[ridgy]

Normally you just join a course with a few others, maybe £40-60 per day depending where you go. Sailing clubs often do L1/L2 courses cheaper than that.

1 to 1 tuition would seem an unnecessary extravagance.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Commercial Yachtmasters are about £100 per day up in Scotland. I know its not dinghy but it may give you a feel for the rates.

 

[Angele]

Commercial Yachtmasters are about £100 per day up in Scotland. I know its not dinghy but it may give you a feel for the rates.

Back in 2003 (the last time I looked in to it), the publised rate for such a person in the Solent was about £125 per day - but you could probably haggle a bit.

Don't know what it is now.

 

[Searush]

Does said pupil have any skills that would be useful to you? Bartering is very cost effective as it is hard to estimate the taxable value of the work and the net benefit to both parties is zero.

Not that I would encourage tax avoidance

 

[Cloven]

My local authority pays me about £11 per hour for dinghy instructor sessions.

 

[lw395]

There is a forum on the RYA site for this sort of thing, people wanted/jobs wanted, I think davewarburton is doing quite well...

 

[ianat182]

I used to give sailing tuition following sailing demonstrations of new craft sold,but privately and unqualified to RYA stanadard. This was the only time I ever was paid for doing so and was for a fixed number of sessions(6 usually).
As I love sailing it gives me real pleasure to show newcomers to sailing, the delights of craft handling and weather reading,and I get as much of a kick out of their achievemnts as they do.
Quite often those I teach stay as crew for me ,or I for them, doing club racing and pottering, indeed,my present partner in my yacht learned in the Wayfarer, prior to joining the 'big boat', and has his Yachtmaster Theory and a Fastnet race under his belt in the 4 years since.
As hinted above, free instruction can result in additional helping big boat or dinghy maintenance, and perhaps the occasional lunch ashore or a drink.

I don't have a dinghy now, and miss it, but a crewed dinghy is more pleasurable than solo sails anyway.
If I had to charge then about £50 for 6 hours without any certification woulld be OK I think (they provide their own kit - and dinghy).