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About SeaSports Southwest - Devon
 
It's all about personal service - we are a small family run business that's all about making sure you have the best experience possible.
 
We offer everything from a half day taster sessions for groups or individuals and intermediate and advanced clinics, 2 and 5 day courses, two day sea kayaking camping trip, we run intructor courses in sailing windsurfing and powerboating.
We are of course RYA and BCU Recognised and hold an AALA Licence

The Centre

At SeaSports our focus is on offering you the very best available; our instructors equipment and facilities are of the highest standard, and we pride ourselves on attention to detail and excellent service. Our instructor ratios are kept very low ensuring that you get maximum attention at all times.

 All our instructors are experienced Industry Qualified and CRB Checked. With emphasis on learning, development and fun in a controlled and safe environment. All in an easily accessible and beautiful location.

 
The Team

All our staff are passionate about their own disciplines and enjoy working as a part of a fun and focused team. All Staff are CRB checked and 1st aid qualified, as well as being governing body qualified.

We are Sue and Tim Cox and the team;


Tim
 Centre Principle. H
as a shockingly long history working in the watersports industry -  Windsurfing Advanced Plus instructor & Intermediate Trainer, Senior Sailing instructor, Advanced Dinghy, Multihull & Keel Boat instructor and Coach Assessor. Advanced Powerboat instructor, and Power boat Trainer, Personal watercraft instructor and 1st Aid instructor. (Also good at growing hair!)

Sue Centre Manager. Has a long history of business, looks after the bookings, office & personnel side of things. Ensures that you, the customer are happy, and runs the hire side of the business. BSUPA Stand Up Paddleboard Instuctor. Oh yes and teaches windsurfing when ever possible. Also likes to ask lots of questions!

 
Jamie Harman Chief  Instructor. RYA Windsurfing Advanced Plus Senior Instructor, Sailing Instructor, Powerboat Instructor, and BSUPA Stand Up Paddleboard Coach. After spending the past few seasons abroad he has returned to the UK, with many years experience both here in the uk and abroad (he's older than he looks!) Jamie heads up the instructor team for SeaSports. What can we say about Jamie? He's just so good!! 
 
Paul Simmons Cheif Powerboat Instructor. RYA Senior Windsurf Instructor, RYA Intermediate Planing Windsurf Instructor, Powerboat Instructor, T15 coach and BSUPA Stand Up Paddleboard Coach. Brings good will and plunder as our resident pirate captain!
 
Rob McInally  Kayak Instructor. and  runs the kayak side of SeaSports; Level 3 sea kayak sea kayak instructor with many years experience paddling our shores and rivers, Rob is also a powerboat instructor and first aid instructor. Passionate about Sea Kayaking Rob is now enjoying exploring the south coast afer spending a few years up in Scotland.
  
 
Martin Allen Senior Sailing instructor and windsurf and power boat instructor; Martin has Joined SeaSports this year after returning from Abu Dhabi along with his wife Vicki (Also an instructor who helps us out here from time to time) like all our instructors Marin has many years experience teaching adults and childen, becoming a sailing instructor after spending his early career writing computor games!  
 
Julian Weyer-Brown RYA Senior Sailing Instructor, RYA Powerboat Instructor and BSUPA Level 1 Stand Up Paddleboard Instructor. When not teaching what he loves, he can often be found onboard his boat in the bay. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Roy Barnes Personal Watercraft instructor, Powerboat instructor & electrician - (who says don't mix electricians & water!)  

Chris Connell; Chris only abides on our shores through the summer the months spending his winters in Australia or India, Chris runs our Paddleboard club on Saturday mornings and does some SUP instruction too. He is a kite surfer and windsurfer and super cool guy! 

 

 

 

It Can Sometimes Be Difficult to Talk About Yourself! - So we asked a local windsurfer made good to give us some thoughts:


John Hibbard, UK National Champion,

Britain’s Most Extreme Champion and World Tour Competitor comments on the arrival of SeaSports Southwest:

windsurfing champion 007 "It’s great to finally have watersports tutition and hire available in Teignmouth. It will make getting in to watersports that much easier. I wish it had been around when I was learning. I learnt to windsurf on the river Teign when I was 14 years old. At that time there were no coaching facitlites availble locally so I learnt most of my skills from magazines and from watching others as well as a lot of trial and error.

I attended Teignmouth Community College and always dreamt of setting up a watersports facility in the town. In the end though my attentions turned to competitions and I set off in search of a life as a professional windsurfer. 10 years since learning in Teignmouth I have achieved my goal and become the National Champion as well as winning the covetted title of Britain’s Most Extreme sportsmen!

I compete all over the world on the Professional Windsurfers Association (PWA) World Tour, with my best result so far being 5th at the Samsung Mobile Championships in Belgium. I always look forward to coming back to my roots and windsurfing in Teignmouth. It’s a great place to try windsurfing and having SeaSports SW in the town can only be a good thing, and maybe in a few years time another Teignmouth windsurfer will be joining me on the PWA world tour."
Cheers
John