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Teaching Sailing is a passion for Tony. He has over 40 years of sailing experience, a large proportion of which has been involved in teaching. He is certified to teach all levels of keelboat courses up to and including Offshore Sailing. As well as being a Canadian Yachting Association (CYA) certified Instructor
and Trainer of Instructors with over 10,000 student hours logged, he also teaches with the Lac St. Louis squadron of the Canadian Power and Sail Squadron (CPS). In addition to local sailing, Caribbean, and Mediterranean cruises he has captained an Atlantic crossing in a 40 foot sailboat and delivered a 42 foot Beneteau from the Bahamas to Toronto. Tony also has attained the prestigious Yacht Master Ocean status. He is a professionally trained instructor and in addition to teaching sailing he is also active as a workshop facilitator and coach in Personal and Personnel Development
Helping people, especially Tony, is a passion for Wanjira. Her career has been multifaceted on three continents. She speaks 4 languages and is currently studying another. In her previous professional capacity as an Executive Assistant, in a high pressure industry, she performed several business management functions
including translations.
Wanjira is currently dividing her time between providing alternate health therapies, please visit Wanjira's Holistic Options, and facilitating workshops related to transitioning to natural healthy life styles. Although Tony has been known to describe Sailing as the ultimate in stress relief he is always delighted to receive a hot stone massage from Wanjira whenever possible. Her capacity for work is only exceeded by her love of helping others. She has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to help raise funds for AIDS relief for African children and is planning other charitable fund raising events.
Dave learned to sail in Gimli, Manitoba on Tumbleweeds in
the early eighties. Predominantly a dingy racer, he has applied
those skills to keelboats ("Much more comfortable!"
he says) and is certified to instruct up to Bronze 5 in dinghies
and Basic Cruising on keelboats. Dave has mainly sailed on inland
waters in Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec with a few blue water
charters in the Caribbean thrown in.
Julien is a versatile sailor. He learned sailing as a child on dinghies, catamarans and cruise boats on the French Atlantic coast, in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and he even crossed the Atlantic. He started teaching in the most prestigious sailing schools in Europe before coming to Canada. He is a CYA certified Learn-to-Cruise instructor.
More cruiser than racer, he loves nothing more than teaching his passion to beginners, Francophones as well as Anglophones.