Neptune Sailing

* Youth Groups - 2025 *

Neptune's beginner youth group begins after Easter!

Neptune is running a Beginner youth group on Tuesdays again.
We had 8 sailors last season, but there were still spare places available. We will have 12 spaces available this year.

To encourage young sailors to join us, we have arranged for your first session to be free. This will enable youngsters to come along and give sailing a try. If it doesn't click for you there is nothing to pay.
The first session will be on 29 April 2025.
Fees for those continuing after the trial session are kept low, at just £12 per session, helping family finances at a difficult time.
If there is more interest, we will be run another group on Wednesdays. Interested in joining a group? You will need to be in Year 6 or higher (10 years of age) to join. Get in touch and find out more.
Youth group details here

* NEW - Home-Ed Groups - 2025 *

Neptune's group for home-educated children begins after Easter*

Last year we were able to run two groups for children who are educated at home. These groups were very popular and both children and parents became fully involved in the work of the centre. We are very keen to continue this work again this season. Our main aim is to add to children's education in the local environment by offering a fun activity, where children can succeed at different levels, leading to national sailing awards. Please get in touch and find out more.

Home-Ed group details here

* Our Summer course - 2025 *

A really good week last year!

We are going to follow last year's much enjoyed summer course, for junior sailors, with two more this year. There is usually a mixture of abilities, ranging from beginner to improver. If you would like to try something new, or are keen to gain another RYA Stage certificate,this could be the challenge you need. We are sure this year's course will be enjoyable and you will help you make steady progress, in a range of dinghies, during the week.
We have plenty of spaces available and are hoping that there will be even more interest this season.

Junior Beginner details here
Junior Improver details here

* Adult Courses 2025 *

Powerboat and Dinghy Course dates now available*

The season will soon begin, and already there are enquiries and bookings arriving.
We had some really memorable weekends of sailing and powerboat courses last season, with the centre buzzing and many people wanting to come back to practise their skills. Our course dates are now available on the website and there are plenty of spaces available.
We are hoping to offer some supervised sailing sessions this year, enabling sailors to build their hours, with safety craft, and some coaching available. Details of this year's courses can be found on:

Adult Powerboat - details here
Adult Dinghy - details 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.

Sailing and Powerboat Training - get afloat at Woolverstone near Ipswich

Registered Charity 1148791

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