Departure guaranteed from 3 people registered.
minimum age for shared courses: 10 years / For private courses: No minimum age.
Not included:
- Expect to pay around €25/pers/day for on-board expenses (food shopping, harbors and anchorages, diesel...).
- Provisioning at your own expense. Grocery store close to the port, with the possibility of delivery to the boat.
- Allow around €15/person for license fees (if you don't have one).
- Bedding: remember to bring your sleeping bag!
Additional information:
- Cleaning will be done at the end of the course by all participants.
- If you are alone, you will be accommodated alone in the front cabin (smaller) or you will share a rear cabin.
- Available on :
- Full boat
- Cabin cruise
Your cruise
Embark at the port of Bandol and head for the Calanques of Cassis and Marseille or the islands of Hyères for 5 days of perfect sailing in unique locations! This course will enable you to discover and learn to sail on a 45-foot boat.
Your possible stops during this cruise
The sailing area for the 5-day courses is the coastal zone between the harbors of Marseille and Hyères.
Depending on weather conditions, you can visit the calanques of Cassis, the Frioul archipelago,
or the islands of Hyères, Port-Cros and Porquerolles, as far as Brégançon.
You'll learn how to sail, how to trim your boat to suit your point of sail, how to find your way around the sea, how to read a map, how to use a GPS, as well as safety maneuvers, how to anchor your sailboat and, why not, how to sail at night.
Our aim is to make you autonomous as quickly as possible, in a friendly and fun atmosphere.
the "Elan 45" is a very comfortable, fast and safe boat, allowing you to optimize the week's technical and educational program in complete safety.
you'll be able to learn how to sail and discover a true sailor's soul!
The skipper
Sail with Valentin, your professional skipper, who will teach you sailing from Bandol!
It is not the man who takes the sea, it is the sea who takes the man
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ELAN 45 - 13.41 meters
Sailboat with 4 double cabins and 2 places in the saloon.
In individual training, the skipper sleeps in a forward cabin. The rear cabins are allocated to couples or friends.
The forward cabin will be allocated to a solo person.
It is equipped with 2 bathrooms
Comfortable and efficient sailboat, ideal for training courses.
If cabins are occupied, the skipper sleeps in the middle
The skipper helps you to cook but everybody is participating
I do not manage supply. Passengers bring it or buy what they need.
- Places of embarkation:Bandol Port
- Boarding time:09h00 / 9AM
- Time of landing:17H00 / 5PM
You can come by train: the station is a 10-minute walk from the port
fly to Marignane, take the shuttle to Marseille, then take the train.
By car, take the Bandol freeway exit, then follow signs for Parking Central and Société Nautique de Bandol.
Very nice cruise, beautiful places and a skipper who always listened. We were a great team to get this boat moving.
Valentin gave us the choice when planning our cruise. Quiet by nature, he clearly knows how to assert himself when it comes to sailing. A great experience.
Excellent course from Bandol to Marseille, Sormiou and Frioul. Fine weather and a few good breezes, which enabled us to put in some nice tacks.
Valentin is a very good teacher, patient and attentive, knowing how to adapt to each person's level. Thanks to his advice, we have all gained experience, and the whole crew is very cohesive.
A great crew! A great sense of cohesion, great memories of laughter, especially on the last evening with a very amusing quiz initiated by Valentin, ending with a musical blindtest with cocktails and dancing on deck... PS: bring a jar of nutella ;-)
Boat in very good condition, functional, clean. The heavy weather on the first day prevented us from going very far, but the experience of sailing safely in 30 knots of wind was exceptional!
Valentin is calm and reassuring in heavy weather. He's a great teacher, and we learned a lot. He let us make our own experience. Our time on board (nights, meals) was very pleasant. It makes you want to do it all over again!
We went on a mini-cruise/sailing course with our 2 teenagers, aged 14 and 16, and everyone was delighted with the experience. Two more people were part of the adventure and we got on very well. We sailed around Porquerolles, with little wind, but our skipper Valentin knew how to adapt to this situation. He's very competent, pedagogical, patient, attentive to the crew, very reliable and, what's more, really nice! Our children really appreciated him. We highly recommend him.
The company is serious and cares about its customers. We felt welcome on departure and arrival. Friendly yacht club and passionate team. We highly recommend them.
From Bandol, there are a multitude of easy, nearby and magnificent destinations. The choice of heading for the Gien peninsula, Porquerolle and Port Cros downwind was an obvious one, and gave a few neophytes the chance to take on heavy weather in complete safety
Valentin, the skipper, was excellent over the 5 days, with his availability, his teaching methods adapted to each individual, and his great patience and kindness. Safety and communication in these windy conditions were paramount. He was also top-notch in his choice of anchorages and maneuvering exercises. Ready to set sail with him again!
We were mostly lucky with the wind, in fact too much wind at some points. Getting to Porquerolles, Marseille and Frioul, and having plenty of good sailing was very positive
Valentín was good all round; his knowledge of the boat and the waters, his understanding of the crew, awareness of safety issues, setting of objectives. He went out of his way to make the trip a success, even taking us to the station in Bandol after the trip. A big thanks to him.
Excellent cruise, very nice anchorage spots, skipper who listens and teaches. Five days without port, ideal for disconnection and decompression, we recommend!
A little more detail about the organization before departure (sheets, food and water) would be great. The contact with the other people who were coming was very welcome so that we could anticipate all the meals (the only downside was that one person was added and we didn't know it...)
Boat well adapted to our request, navigation according to plan defined with the skipper, as planned and with the weather, Philippe our skipper to answer our requests with clear explanations we have handle a maximum to redo
Good organization, listening to us, very nice, I am sure we will come back to do other nav
We realized a dream that has been slowly maturing for several months between friends, it's a done deal, what's next I think will be quite fast
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Customer Satisfaction 4.75 / 5