Our Crew
Chief Instructor
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 a Dinghy and Powerboat Senior Instructor and Trainer and has been training instructors for nearly 30 years. He is also a qualified scoolteacher and has lectured at college.
Eddie is also a yachtmaster instructor /examiner. He began his offshore experience in his early teens and has and races dinghies and cruisers. Besides sailing cats he sails on cruisers in competes in many major regattas
Customer services manager
Jo English
Jo has been sailing dinghies and cruisers for 6 years . Jo has attended most of our courses over the last few years and can give you a personal insight from the pupils point of view!
Sales co-ordinator
Rebecca Snaith
Rebecca looks after our customer enquiries and will help you to find the course that best suits your needs.
Powerboat Senior Instructor
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Con Crowley
Con, a keen powerboater and a member of the Crosshaven lifeboat crew, runs most of our powerboat courses from beginner to advanced.
Dinghy Senior Instructor
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Susie Mahony
Susie, an enthusiastic dinghy and cruiser sailor, has worked as a dinghy instructor with SailCork for 4 years and is now in her second season as Dinghy Senior Instructor.
Eddie English Blog
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.
