About Us
SailCork has been involved in watersports training and holidays for over 30 years in Cobh and on the south coast of Ireland and is run by Eddie English.The English family has been involved in seafaring in Cobh for 4 generations. Eddie has been teaching sailing since 1969 and is one of the most experienced instructors in the sport. He is an ISA/RYA sailing and powerboat trainer/examiner. Eddie is also a yachtmaster instructor/examiner and races dinghies and cruisers.
He leads a team of professional, dedicated instructors are carefully chosen for their sailing and powerboating ability as well as their patience, understanding and teaching skills. SailCork is approved by the Irish Sailing Association (ISA), the RYA and the Irish Tourist Board (Failte Ireland). SailCork offers a very comprehensive list of courses in Sailing, Powerboating, Navigation, VHF Radio, Sea Survival, Safety at Sea, First Aid at Sea etc. The courses are run in a friendly, professional and seamanlike manner.
SailCork has always spearheaded development in marine training in Ireland.They were one of the original schools to introduce the National Dinghy Scheme to Ireland and pioneered the National Powerboat Scheme here. On the cruising front Eddie English brought in full international qualifications and is now one of the leading Yachtmaster Instructor/Examiners.
This pioneering work also resulted in SailCork's leading role as a Navigation School in Ireland - offering a broader spectrum of courses than any other school and continueing to develop new courses especially in the area of electronic navigation.
SailCork - leaders in Ireland
Cruiser Sailing - first to use National Cruising Scheme - top class boats - amazing cruising waters- great skippers!
Powerboating - Introduced National Powerboat Scheme to Ireland - Irelands first powerboating school. Variety of boats - excellent training waters.
Dinghy Sailing - teaching for nearly 40 years. Introduced National Dinghy Scheme to Ireland. Wide variety of boats. Low ratio - 1 instructor per 4 pupils
Shorebased - Irelands leading Navigation School - giving courses for last 30 years. Introduced VHF Radio courses to leisure market
SailCork -safe fun learning afloat and ashore .
A little History:
Eddie English, begain his teaching sailing career in Cobh and in the RCYC in 1969. For the next few years he worked every summer teaching sailing in different parts of Ireland. In 1974 he started his own sailing school "Cork Harbour Sail Training Centre" - this school progressed and expanded and was called "International Sailing Centre" in 1978 when he expanded into teaching navigation and windsurfing. The school expanded to include cruiser sailing during the 1980's and by 1990 was known as "International Sailing" when he established the first powerboat school in Ireland. During the 1990's the school launched it's own website with the web address, sailcork.com and by 2003 the school had adopted the title of "SailCork".
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Underwater cable Aghada to Cuskinny
One Thursday evening at the very start of February a group of seafarers decended on my local, “The Roaring Donkey”, in Cobh and lashed into copious quantities of gin and tonic. As the conversations began to flow it transpired that they were the crew of the Norwegian vessel, “Elektron”, docked at Cork Dockyard in Rushbrooke. Not just any ordinary ship but a specialist vessel for cable laying – she was here to lay the cable from Aghada Power Station to Cuskinny on the Great Island in Cork Harbour.
