Who are Taking The Helm?

  

Mason King

Mason King is the Principal of Taking The Helm.  He is a Yachtmaster Instructor who has been teaching people to sail for 20 years, instructing on RYA courses at all levels as well as modular and race training.  He is also a Yachtmaster Power and RYA Dinghy Instructor and RYA Keelboat Race Coach.

He has a passion for racing and for training inexperienced sailors to race competitively.  He is also a keen astro navigator who likes his students to go home with an understanding of the subject, not just a knowledge of how to get through exams.  This is an ethos that he carries through all of his training.

Having recently completed 30 years with the Met. Police in the Specialist Firearms Dept. as well as other operational roles, he has practical experience of team building, leadership training and facilitation.

Mason can be contacted on 07973 295027 or at mason@takingthehelm.co.uk

  
 

Mason King

  

Tim Banks

  
 

Tim Banks

Tim Banks is a commercially endorsed Yachtmaster who has owned various boats for the past 20 years and has a great love of sailing classic yachts.

He currently owns a Bavaria 47 which is based in Greece and has sailed it extensively for the past 3 years from Pula in Croatia to Rhodes in Greece.

He has a great deal of experience sailing on the East and South coasts as well as the Med.

Tim has owned a very successful business for the last 10 years and is now looking to put all the skills this has taught him into the sailing environment.

He has an engineering background with an intimate knowledge of diesel/petrol inboard engines, outboard engines, stern gear, navigational equipment, boat electrics, spars, rolla reefing/slab reefing and rigging set ups, gaff, sloop etc...  If it's broken, Tim will find a way of fixing it.

Tim can be contacted on 07971 660819 or at tim@takingthehelm.co.uk

  

Michael Nelson

Michael Nelson has been sailing for almost 10 years and is an RYA Yachtmaster.

He has worked in the public sector for 30 years has a passion for team building.

He is an Advanced Facilitator who enjoys taking teams through the learning experience in various environments and sees the sailing yacht as the perfect team building platform and environment.

He has sailed mainly on the south coast of the UK and in the Mediterranean and has recently completed an eight week sailing experience in UK and Gibraltar.

Michael can be contacted on 07908 644058 or at michael@takingthehelm.co.uk

  
 

Michael Nelson

 
 
 

Taking The Helm Ltd - 21 Church Road, Poole, Dorset, BH14 8UF - Company Registration no. 07492670
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