Our main training base IN Cowes on the Isle of Wight is on the south coast of England, gateway to the Solent a challenging stretch of water between the Isle of Wight and the English mainland.

The town of Cowes on the Island is often referred to as the home of British sailing, a buzzing town that hosts the Cowes Week Regatta in August each year.

The South Coast also allows easy access to many French ports, including the ports of north western France and Brittany. Along with the Channel Islands, these popular and challenging cruising grounds, with their strong tides and the changeable British weather offer challenging navigation and pilotage opportunities.

Our courses also take in the south western areas of Devon and Cornwall ensuring a truly broad experience and great offshore and coastal sail training experience.

Global Yacht Training offers ocean passages from the Isle of Wight to France and  across the bay of biscay and down the Western Coasts of Spain and Protugal to Gibraltar.  The Bay of Biscay is a region known for rough seas and is home to some of the the Atlantic Ocean’s fiercest weather. Under the instruction of Global Yacht Training’s experienced and professional RYA Yachtmaster Instructions the sailing passages the cross the biscay are great experinece and skill builders for sailors wanting to gain ocean miles and qualifications. The Spanish and Portugese coastlines enroute to Gibraltar offer some beautiful coastal scenery and welcoming ports. The spanish coastline of Galicia peppered with bays and inlets which are  picturesque and peaceful. The portugese coast offers huge variety from the craggy mountains and endless beautiful beaches of the Costa Verde though to the concrete jungle and touristy Algarve.

 The BVIs boast clear blue water, sunshine every day, and islands close enough to navigate by sight, the BVI is a sailor’s heaven. The BVIs are a small cluster of Islands located in the northern area of the Caribbean sea.  From the main capital island of Tortola, you can  have incredible variety in a cruising area that is about 32 miles long and 15 miles wide. There are sixty islands to explore  and endless number of cays, harbours, anchorages and moorings

Global Yacht Training offers you the opportunity to sail in many different Mediterranean locations from the impressive Rock of Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediterranean sea. As part of an extended passage exploring  this area of the Mediterranean offers a really wide variety of countries and sailing waters from the Spanish Costa del Sol, North Africa, Morrocco, Portugal  and through out into the Atlantic  to  the Atlantic Islands of the Canaries.

To sail eastwards into the Mediterranean you can get onboard a Global Yacht Training sailing adventure or milebuilder to Malta.  The beautiful Islands of  Ibiza, Menorca and Mallorca offer surprisingly unspoilt calas and bays away from the tourist areas. Further into the Mediterranean Sea there is some spectacular island scenery around Sardinia and Malta. The Maltese Islands include active volcanic peaks where night time eruptions of lava look stunning against the blackness of the evening sky.