Principal:
Melvyn Wallhead, Ocean Yachtmaster™ & RYA Shorebased Instructor
Email; melvyn_wallhead@yahoo.com
Mobile 0775 460 4092 or text Home 0191 281 2018 (if onshore)
Postal address: 1 Anscomb Gardens, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7BB
CV Matters
Melvyn Wallhead, Ocean Yachtmaster™ has over 40 years of experience with sailing boats and would like to share this with you, so you too can enjoy the ‘highs’ of sailing a yacht on a warm day with a favourable breeze.
Melvyn is an RYA Instructor living in Newcastle upon Tyne with wife and son. He considers the North East and Northumberland to be an underestimated sailing area with such a fine coastline, complete with islands and castles, and superb bird life. If the weather is a bit unfavourable there’s still plenty of level sailing in the River Tyne to enjoy in comfort.
28,000 sea miles with 900+ days at sea have taken Melvyn, as skipper, to four continents, around Britain and across Biscay to the Med and back. Norway, Baltic Germany, Netherlands, Canaries, Orkneys and Scottish Islands have also been explored. Yachts have been chartered in the BVI, Phuket, Baltic, Falmouth, Corfu, Holland, the Solent & the Clyde. You can be sure that he has already made your mistakes at some stage and can sympathise.
We aim to be safe at sea but to learn to enjoy a challenge. A bit of fun too is all part of the scene and a drink in a bar of a new port after a day at sea is a delight to be savoured.
Chief Instructor:
John Parlane, RYA Yachtmaster™ Instructor & Examiner
John learnt to sail dinghies back in the ’80s in Morecambe Bay. His first trip on a cruising yacht was across the Irish Sea to the Isle of Man – at night time! A few years later, he bought a small yacht and developed a lasting love of the Scottish West Coast.
With a career change looming in 2006, John became a sail cruising instructor, working for several companies in the Firth of Clyde. He began teaching RYA theory courses at home in Morecambe. Each year his list of instructor qualifications grew. These included ‘Advanced Powerboat’ and ‘Senior Keelboat’ Instructor. He started Bay Sea School in Morecambe in 2012 to provide Keelboat courses for adult beginners.
John is passionate about sailing and loves helping others develop theirs too.