The Island Trust

[Halcyon Yachts]

I'm thinking about sending me teenage son off for a week with The Island Trust this summer.

Johanna Lucretia

Does anyone have any first hand experience with them and can recommend? Or perhaps an alternative option I haven't thought about?

He's obviously done a fair bit of sailing with me, but hasn't got any tickets yet. A week onboard will get him his Comp Crew and then he can do the Day Skipper course next summer...

Many thanks,

Pete

 

[Babylon]

No direct experience of the ship or organisation, but have done ten days on a larger tops'l schooner and can only imagine what a great experience the Johanna Lucretia would be for a teenage boy presumably with other teenagers from all sorts of backgrounds.

 

[RunAgroundHard]

No experience of The Island Trust. I sailed with the Ocean Youth Club (now Ocean Youth Trust) a few times and know a couple of skippers. They appear to offer experiences that are just as valid in the sail training space, but not the 'tall ship' experience. I see their boats out and about in all weathers, actually sailing, when the vintage fleet on the West Coast of Scotland are berthed. Note that Day Skipper on a 'tall ship' would likely be the Watch Keeper version as boat handling is excluded. Nothing wrong with that, but it is a difference.

I would recommend Ocean Youth Trust, but if he is looking for 'tall ship' experience rather than just big boat experience, then he would not get that. Either way, it is a great thing to do, and a fantastic leveller as everyone has to contribute to the running of the boat.