Neptune Sailing

* Try Our Youth Groups - 2024 *

Come to the first two sessions and try sailing for free!

Neptune is organising at least one evening youth group next year. Tuesdays will be aimed at beginners, and near beginners and we are hoping to organise an Improvers group on Wednesdays for those with a little more experience.
To encourage young sailors to join us, we have arranged for the first two sessions of our season to be free, so make sure you come along to those sessions. If you don't like sailing there will be nothing to pay.

We need just 6 sailors to run each group and up to 12 places available in each group.

Fees have been kept low, helping family finances at a difficult time, and may be paid in two half-season amounts. Interested in joining a group? Please get in touch in good time. You will need to be in Year 6 or higher (10 years of age) to join the group.

Youth group details here

* Next Season Adult Courses 2024 *

Powerboat Courses available now and Dinghy Courses very soon *

We will have available our usual selection of Powerboat Level 2 and Dinghy Level 1 & 2 courses. Details of this year's courses can be found on:

Adult Powerboat - click here

Adult Dinghy - click here

* Dinghy Instructor Course - 2024 *

July 2024 - Let us know if you are interested

Qualify as an RYA Dinghy Instructor next year. We can help with all aspects of qualification from Powerboat to First Aid certificates. Places usually go very quickly and this course is likely to have fewer places than we have offered previously.
Details of these will be available next year and can be found on:

Dinghy Instructor - click here

Who are Neptune Sailing?

Neptune Sailing is based on the River Orwell at Woolverstone, near Ipswich. We have a large number of craft, of different types and provide a range of Dinghy Sailing and Powerboat training and assessment. During the season the centre is available to both young people and adults. We aim to provide high quality tuition, based on the RYA National schemes.

Neptune Sailing has been working independently, delivering quality water sports experiences, for the last six seasons. We have charitable status and are registered as a company limited by guarantee.

Our Youth Groups run on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings for Beginners, Improvers and Advanced skills and are open to all young people. They are very popular, so making an early approach regarding joining one of the groups is advisable.

Adult training courses are run mainly during weekends and cover the RYA Sailing Schemes to Level 3 and RYA Powerboat Level 1 and 2, as well as Safety Boat. We are happy to offer courses to groups and individuals at other times.

During the school holiday periods week-long courses are available for young people and these are very popular. The courses offer training from beginner Stage 1 to advanced skills Stage 4.

* RYA Instructors *

We are looking for RYA Senior and Dinghy Instructors as many of our own team have moved on to greater things (see main page)

* Neptune Supporters *

Neptune Sailing is a charity and needs occasional help with simple tasks such as recovering dinghies, tidying the site, simple boat maintenance and repairs.
We launched our supporters' group with some sailing sessions, hoping that local people would be keen to be involved. These sessions proved popular and several people enjoyed some good sailing in the unusually moderate weather.
We have made this a continuing project and hope that more keen locals will want to join us, so do get in touch.

New Challenges

We are very keen to hear from Dinghy Senior Instructors, and Dinghy Instructors, who feel able to organise a small group session on tidal waters. Even if you are only able to offer an occasional session, we would like to hear from you. Opportunities are available to work with young people and adults with sessions taking place during late afternoons, evenings and weekends. We are keen to hear from confident We are hopeful that we will be able to offer summer courses once more.

Many of our Management team have been with us since 2012. We are keen to add further members to the team, who are willing to take on small roles. New team members need not be sailors, or powerboaters, as there are many other areas which need coordination.

Phone details

We now have a mobile number:
07707 056158
- text us and we will call you back

Sailing and Powerboat Training - get afloat at Woolverstone near Ipswich

Registered Charity 1148791

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