SailTime Newport

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Discover affordable fractional sailing in Pittwater, NSW

SailTime Newport

Welcome to SailTime Newport

Angela and I own and operate SailTime Newport on the beautiful Pittwater just 45 minutes drive north of Sydney harbour

We first discovered SailTime in 2007 and after two years of research and after visiting bases and meeting with SailTime members in both Europe and the USA we took the plunge and started SailTime Newport in April 2009.

We believe the SailTime concept is the perfect solution for people looking to sail regularly with friends and family but without the hassle of owning and maintaining the boat themselves. Angela is relatively new to sailing so we understand the apprehension that some people have about going on the water and the importance of progressing at a pace that you are comfortable with.

I have been enthusiastically sailing and racing for a number of years and as a qualified Sailing Instructor I appreciate that a good days sailing is a combination of the challenge of testing your skills against the elements while having a safe and enjoyable time.

Whether you are a beginner or fully qualified, SailTime Newport offers an extensive range of YA training programmes tailored to suit your needs. Our goal is to ensure that when you go out on the water with your friends and family you can enjoy the world of sailing in a safe and affordable way.

Angela & I like to offer all our members a chance to make new friends through our regular member events including Sail days, twilight racing, cruises and local regattas and picnics.

So whether you are a former boat owner, experienced sailor, or new to sailing, please give us a call and schedule a time to drop by our base at Newport. We look forward to the opportunity to welcome you and show you around

Graham & Angela Raspass
So stop dreaming and start sailing now with SailTime Newport

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For further detail please complete the no obligation enquiry form or call us on 02 8079 5998

Pittwater - one of Sydney's best kept secrets.

Just 45 minutes drive north of the Sydney CBD are long stretches of open beach, rugged headlands and sandstone sea cliffs, tranquil waterways, native bushland with pockets of rainforest, wetlands providing sanctuary to a myriad of bird species, and rock platforms bursting with marine life.

Pittwater, known locally as "God's back garden" is Sydney's best-kept secret and provides access to the spectacular waterways that makes SailTime Newport particularly special.

Come and Experience the highlights of Pittwater and Broken Bay with its delightful anchorages at Coasters Retreat , America Bay , Refuge Bay, and numerous marinas and restaurants and coffee shops at Church Point, Newport, Bayview Cottage Point , Bobbin head , Akuna bay, Brooklyn and many sheltered anchorages such as Jerusalem Bay, Smith Creek, Towlers or Hallett’s beach.

Pittwater is widely acclaimed as a perfect sailing ground for everyone from novice sailors through to experienced seamen, and makes an ideal location for SailTime Newport .

With it’s predominate nor-east sea breezes sweeping down over Barrenjoey Peninsula and offering protection from often rowdy Tasman Sea swells, one can comfortably sail the length and breadth of Pittwater, enjoying the challenges of mastering the elements in safety. Pittwater and it adjoining waterways of Broken Bay and the Hawkesbury offer members the opportunity to safely navigate hundreds of nautical miles of pristine bays, inlets and rivers.

If it’s cruising and sailing that feeds your soul, you’ll need look no further.

Sailing out of Pittwater, up into one of the south-western arm of the Hawkesbury River, you have to remind yourself forcefully that you’re only 45 minutes (by road) from the hustle of central Sydney.

Moorings, anchorages & public berthing

There are several amazing places to anchor or berth for the night. Most bays and inlets in Pittwater contain public moorings.

Pittwater’s Royal Motor Yacht Club (RMYC) offers overnight berthing, as well as a good fuel and tucker stop.

Further north of Scotland Island lies The Basin, a naturally enclosed lagoon, featuring a great camping/picnic spot.

Once a vital refuge for coastal trading ships, the Basin, a naturally enclosed lagoon, featuring a great camping/picnic is now part of a National park.

You can also find hundreds of popular public moorings in Refuge Bay and America Bay.

In Australia’s early colonial days, these bays offered safe haven for convicts, smugglers and would-be pirates.I

t’s a beautiful location, offering stunning scenery…grandiose sandstone cliffs jetting out over the bay, and a waterfall that seems to spring from the porous cliff before crashing into a pool below. What better place to take a refreshing soak or wash the day’s salt spray off your tired body?

View from West Head looking east - Barrenjoey Head and lighthouse gateway to the open seas

Those who have experienced the pleasures of cruising these brilliant Broken Bay waters can only agree with the words of the early explores when they described is as, one of the '….finest piece of land' and stretches of waterway this side of the Equator.

Base Fleet Information

Memberships NOW Available on our new Beneteau 37
(arriving August 2010)

Bénéteau Océanis 37

Stunning and well thought-out, the new Oceanis 37 follows in the footsteps of her bigger sisters, with a contemporary feel below deck designed by Nauta Design and clean dynamic external lines by Groupe Finot Conq. Innovation dominates the design of this exceptional new boat, which takes the principle of design serving function to a completely new level.

	SILVER Membership	GOLD Membership
Joining fee (one time fee)	$1,200	$1,750
Monthly fee*	$690	$1050
Guaranteed monthly SailTimes	3	6
2 Days induction	Included	Included
As available additional SailTimes	up to 3 per month @ $200 per SailTime 24 hours in advance	Up to 4 per month no charge 24 hours in advance
Membership SailTime plus	Additional fee $350 first booking	Included
Welcome pack	YES	YES

*Single annual payment attracts a discount of 5%

Bénéteau Océanis 40 - Coming February 2011

A new generation of cruising yachts.

The Océanis 40 is an unequivocal invitation to delight in her design, comfort and performance.

The interior architecture and design are by Nauta Design.  This great Italian name, a benchmark in the super yacht world, has helped the Océanis 40 achieve her true personality – one of contemporary lines where luminosity, comfort and wellbeing take precedence on board

	SILVER Membership	GOLD Membership
Joining fee (one time fee)	$1,200	$1,750
Monthly fee*	$825	$1250
Guaranteed monthly SailTimes	3	6
2 Days induction	Included	Included
As available additional SailTimes	up to 3 per month @ $200 per SailTime 24 hours in advance	Up to 4 per month no charge 24 hours in advance
Membership SailTime plus	Additional fee $350 first booking	Included
Welcome pack	YES	YES

For further detail please complete the no obligation enquiry form or call us on 02 8079 5998

Training

Learn sailing and boating skills at SailTime Newport

Sailtime Newport provides a full range of training to both new and existing members. We can provide a number of YA courses. Additionally, we provide a number of experience days that will help you brush up on certain skills - whether you are a complete novice or an experienced sailor, SailTime has a training solution for you.

To enable you as a member or owner-member to sail alone and unassisted we require you to have reached the YA Inshore Skipper qualification (theory and practical). We strongly believe that this standard is the minimum that will enable you to feel confident in handling the boat and to enjoy your sailing with family and friends.

The ensuing professionalism of your sailing also helps to avoid unnecessary boating incidents that might otherwise result in the damage of the boat, spoiling the enjoyment of the SailTime experience for you and for others. Also, the owner-member knows that their boat is being sailed by select and competent members who undoubtedly will become seafaring friends.

Whilst you are working towards your YA Inshore Skipper qualification you can, of course, still sail. However, it is a requirement that you have onboard someone, guest or instructor, of Inshore Skipper standard or higher.

One of the benefits of SailTime is that you are able to use your sailing time to enjoy instruction on your own yacht rather than in a group situation onboard a basic and unfamiliar sailing school training boat.

Through one of the affiliated YA sailing schools we are able to provide you with professional quality training on your yacht to help you become a more confident skipper, regardless of your initial standard. Our programme gives you the flexibility to have a Sailing Instructor or Yachtmaster Instructor onboard for one-to-one tuition, group tuition, or simply as a companion to help build your confidence on a new boat.

Sailing courses offered by the SailTime Newport

Introductory Course

The syllabus for the Introductory Certificate is intended for completion over the period of one full days sailing. It is an introduction to sailing and to working aboard a sailing yacht in sheltered waters.

Duration 1 full day $300

Syllabus items covered include:

Familiarisation with your boat
Personal Safety
Rope work
Working the Sheet
Local Waterways Charts
Points of sail

YA Competent Crew Course

This course is for those who would like to become active crew members. By the end of the course you should be able to steer, handle sails, basic navigation ,keep a lookout, row a dinghy and assist in all the routines onboard.

Duration: 2 days / one night $495

YA Inshore Skipper Theory Course

The YA Inshore Skipper theory course provides you with the following skills:

Stability of a vessel and security and safety of passengers and crew.
Navigation, inlcuding the use of nautical charts, using chart plotting instruments, taking hand compass bearings, proper siting of compasses, determining your position, using tide tables and predicting tidal currents, visual aids to navigation, planning a passage, navigating when visibility is restricted.
Weather analysis for planning your sail and what to do in adverse weather situations.

You should already have a basic knowledge of navigation and helmsmanship. It is advisable that you take the Inshore Skipper thoery course before attending the practical course and it is recommended that you have already sailed with others for 5 days, 100 miles, including 4 night hours onboard a boat.

Duration: 1days $300

YA Inshore Skipper Practical Course

The YA Inshore Skipper practical course provides you with the skills needed to pilot a boat, understand boat handling and get a basic understanding of seamanship and navigation.

You should already have a basic knowledge of navigation and helmsmanship. It is advisable that you take the Inshore Skipper shore-based course before attending this practical course and it is recommended that you have already sailed with others for 5 days, 100 miles, including 4 night hours onboard a boat.

Duration: 2 days / 2 nights $695

Short courses

In addition to the YA courses, there are a number of 'improve/ refresh your skills' training programs. These provide great opportunity to sharpen your skills. Ranging from Man Over Board, Sail Trimming, Mooring techniques, Anchoring, Night Sailing, navigation or just mile building, there is something for all experience levels of sailor to benefit from.

Please contact us for more information

Places to Go

Royal Motor Yacht Club - www.royalmotor.com.au

The Royal Motor Yacht Club ,Broken Bay, with its beautiful setting on Sydney’s magnificent Pittwater is widely recognised as one of Australia’s premier yacht clubs. Since its inception back in the 1920’s, the club has undergone many changes. With the passage of time, there has been the inevitable transition from a small, semi-rural establishment for a tight-knit group of dedicated“boaties”, to the current modern facility catering for a diverse community of cruising, sailing, racing, fishing and social members that is the Royal Motor Yacht Club Broken Bay today.

Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club - www.rpayc.com.au

The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club is situated on Green Point on the pristine body of water called Pittwater, on Sydney's Northern Beaches. The Club offers members and their guests one of the finest facilities in Australia; with state-of-the-art floating marina, a modern boat yard and 50 tonne travel lift, two hard stand areas, on-site marine services, 24 hour fuel, tender service, gymnasium, multi-level secure parking, fine dining restaurant, casual waterfront bistro and first class function facilities that have made it an International talking point.
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club takes has an ongoing commitment to provide the best facilities and conditions for its members and their guests and, a warm and friendly welcome to National and International visitors.

Pittwater map
http://www.maritime.nsw.gov.au/docs/maps/pittwater.pdf