Welcome to Elite Sailing – Kent’s Best Sailing Centre

Elite Sailing is an accredited RYA training centre that provides Professional and Leisure sail qualifications for every level, from complete beginners to the experienced. We offer practical and shore-based RYA sailing courses, mile-builder opportunities and one of the best Adventure Sailing programmes in the UK for the active sailing enthusiast.

Elite Sailing is based in Chatham, which is under an hour from central London (45 mins on the train), making us the closest sailing school to London, and the perfect option if you live in London and want to learn to sail.

Our RYA Accredited Practical Sailing courses are designed to support complete beginners to become qualified as Competent Crew, and enable sailing enthusiasts to continue their journey to achieve RYA Day Skipper, RYA Yachtmaster Coastal, Offshore and Ocean.

Elite’s popular adventure sailing trips around the British Isles and northwest Europe combine the excitement of sailing with the delights of travel in a formula that is unsurpassed in quality and value. The Adventure Sailing trips take place onboard Tonic our well-appointed 46’ Bavaria, and make ideal milebuiders. We also offer a range of high-end, premium adventure sailing trips around the UK (known as Flagship Adventures), these take place onboard Ruby May our 39′ Beneteau. All of our adventure sailing trips offer bucket-list adventure opportunities, and with no experience needed you’ll be under the expert guidance of our professional skippers.

If you are looking to improve, refresh, or simply want to learn how to sail – get in contact.

We will be happy to tell you more about our courses and what we have available over the coming weeks and months.

We look forward to hearing from you.

(Kent’s Best Sailing School:  We are the number one rated sailing school in Kent and the South East of the UK)