The White Swan 57'

Having attended a number of sailing trips organised by Sailing Adventures, I thought I should pen you a note of thanks. Your overall organising, the great company, the food (!), and the warm hospitality are just first rate. I would also like to commend ‘Pozz’ (Brian) for his first rate seamanship that makes everyone feel so secure in all sailing conditions. I remember that while watching a movie called ‘White Squall’, which has a sad ending, I had thought ‘how difficult it would be to entrust the lives of your children to a crew and captain’ – well, I can honestly say I would have no qualms entrusting my children to a Sailing Adventures trip – but they have to be put to work! T Thanks again for great sailing memories.

Thank you for a truly great Sailing Adventures experience at Hamilton Island. The organisation of the event was excellent and the food was superb. The experience was enhanced even more by the careful way that you ensured the interaction of all the participants on their sailing adventure. I'll be back!

It has been great to have been able to participate in most of the week long group events organised by you around Hamilton Island Race Week over the past ten years. The efforts put into planning, organising and making the events enjoyable has been consistently successful. The theme of each event has been different but with an underlying objective of encouraging participants to discover the many and varied ways that individuals and business organisations can interact and learn. At the conferences, I have enjoyed the camaraderie with others with diverse interests and I have seen that almost everyone involved has had the opportunity to build relationships and gain insights into how many of the others attending were able to achieve a successful outcome for themselves or their business.

The leadership course during Hamilton Island Race Week offers the chance to improve sailing skills in racing conditions and learn from business leaders attending the well organised workshops. Provision of full catering and fully serviced cruising yachts mean participants can concentrate fully on the workshops and the sailing. An added bonus is the spectacle of world class racing yachts competing at the regatta. The top level sailing tuition and informality of the workshops have allowed me to learn new skills and develop genuine friendships.

Great sailing, great rivalry, great communion/fellowship and it was a shame to leave and come home. There is little to  add. I would like to thank all conference participants for the spread of knowledge and enlightenment. Once again I got more from the speakers and subsequent discussion than the sailing  - it was only a small margin!!! Congratulations to Pozz and Cath for continuing the traditions and even enhancing them with the new trophy (thanks Rod) and events. All participants were delighted with the smooth organisation, especially the food and drinks.

Conventional yacht racing wisdom would say that being competitive on the water and having plenty of fun afterwards are mutually exclusive at a regatta  (just ask the crews of the high performance boats at the pointy end of the fleet who are often under curfew after 8pm and tucked up in bed by 10). Sailing Adventures defies this logic by providing an extremely well managed combination of great competition afloat and a five star entertainment experience ashore, with great food, wine and most importantly, great company.

Hamo Race Week is always a great time. The sailing is fun... exhilarating, but always with the right priority given to safety, leadership and teamwork. The week also provides the opportunity to meet friends, network and have fun, particularly in the evenings which are great social occasions without being overly organised. I should add that the entire week is very well organised which  only happens because the effort the Sailing Adventurers team put into looking after us in every respect from the accommodation, sea-faring lunches, culinary delights of a night and ensuring everyone has fun.

I have attended Hamilton Island Race week several times but never had such a great experience as with CEO1/Sailing Adventures. It was superbly organised and exceptional in terms of excellent accommodation; dining and interacting each night with the whole group and of course the sailing activities to support the underlying training and personal development. I especially enjoyed mixing with such an interesting range of people who have so much to share over the period, and listening to the presentations each night and associated long discussions that followed in such a collegial setting. The leadership and team building aspects of the sailing activities proved to be insightful and very well crafted which is a credit to CEO1/Sailing Adventures. I also have built some lasting relationships from this unique environment and event and will be attending again, which is probably the best recommendation I can give CEO1/Sailing Adventures..