Southampton Water Activity Centre - Chieftain Training

Great review from the weekend's RYA Powerboat Level 2, taught by Alp

⛵ SWAC Sailability is going year-round! ♿🌊

Following the success of our 2026 evening Sailability sessions this summer, we’re really pleased to announce the next stage of the programme.

Rather than stopping when the evenings draw in, SWAC Sailability will continue throughout the year, with a new regular year round daytime session.

During the winter months we’ll make greater use of our keelboats, giving sailors the opportunity to keep getting afloat even when dinghy sailing isn’t practical.

From spring through to autumn, sessions will include a mixture of dinghy sailing and keelboating, depending on conditions, ability and individual preference.

Of course, there will occasionally be winter days when the weather means we have to postpone, but there are also plenty of calm, bright winter days when sailing is perfectly achievable — and we want to make those opportunities available.

Our aim is simple: to make sailing more accessible, more often, to more people.

The programme is open to people with disabilities and additional needs, whether you are completely new to sailing or already have some experience.

📍 Southampton Water Activity Centre (SWAC)
⛵ Dinghies and keelboats
📅 Weekly, year-round sessions
👥 Supported by our experienced SWAC team and volunteers

So from 23 September we will be running a new year-round Wednesday morning programme with a break during each school holiday.

This year's evening program will soon move to Thursdays and will continue to operate late April to early October each year.

To summarise, going forward there will now be 2 sessions a week, Wednesday mornings year round and Thursday evenings April to October.

If you know someone who might enjoy getting out on the water with us, please share this post with them. If you would like to volunteer please get in touch.

For more info, dates and booking, please visit https://chieftain.training/swac-sailability-club/

SWAC Sailability Club SWAC Sailability Club (Southampton). An inclusive, year round friendly sailing programme designed to enable disabled people to enjoy being on the water

Dan joined us last week for Pre exam preperation and passed his Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence with flying colours. What a credit to Ryde Inshore Rescue and Cowes Harbour Commission

Well done to Dan who has officially qualified as a Coxswain on RR2 at Ryde Inshore Rescue! We are all incredibly proud of you 👏🏼

Yesterday's Powerboat Refresher on board Apache, taught by Peter.

This weeks 4 Cs- The Chieftain Cat Conversion Course.

Our cat Conversion Course at SWAC allows existing dinghy sailors to adapt their skills to these wider and faster machines

The sailors has a great time in the winds today.

John and Doug, spent part of this week erecting our new signage at SWAC. A few more to go up tommorrow.....

Our second night pilotage exercise for advanced power-boating this week. Taught by Peter.

Yesterday, we welcomed 28 Scouts and Explorers for a fantastic afternoon of sailing! ⛵🌊 They were camping at a local campsite and enjoyed getting out on the water with us. 🏕️