Sailing Courses in Spain - Meet your sailing instructors


Eric	Linda	Russ

Eric
Eric started sailing in his early teens, on a square rigger in the Moray Firth in Scotland with the Outward Bound Trust. This experience and the early underwater documentaries of Hans and Lotte Haas created a love of the open sea, both above and below the waves, which has endured unabated to this day. His sail cruising experience dates back to the mid 70's since when he covered many thousands of miles in a variety of sail and power boats, including traditional long keelers, modern fin keel cruiser/racers, catamarans and trimarans.

Before moving to Mallorca his cruising grounds included UK waters, Holland, Belgium, France, Atlantic Spain and Portugal. He has made more Biscay crossings than he cares to remember and has also skippered transatlantic crossings and sailed extensively in the Grenadines. He has held the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) Yachtmaster Certificate since 1983 and has been a Yachtmaster Instructor since 1993. He has lived in Andratx since 2000. He is also a British Sub Aqua Club advanced instructor since 1993.

Linda
Deciding that living a life in the sunshine would be far preferable than under the grey skies of England, Linda packed up a rucksack and headed out to the Mediterranean. Leaving behind an exciting career in film and theatre in London, Linda swapped film premieres for oilskins and trained as a sailing instructor in the cold waters of the Solent and English Channel before setting her sights on the warmer waters of Mallorca. After running highly successful sailing courses as part of the Solaris team throughout the previous season, Linda finished off the year with a transatlantic crossing from the Balearics to Antigua. Linda is a valued member of the Solaris team.

Russ
Russ started out competing at both sprint and slalom canoeing, combining this in the early days with Sub-aqua diving. He kicked off his sailing for a short time sailing mirror dinghies on the lakes of South Wales.

In the mid eighties Russ took to sailing small cruisers predominantly around the south and east coast of the UK. Since then Russ has progressed up to an RYA Yachtmaster Instructor, simultaneously becoming a British Sub-Aqua Diving instructor. With well over 10,000 nautical miles behind him, he has delivered boats to various parts of the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Caribbean. To compliment his sailing skills, Russ is an enthusiastic cook and great company.

Solaris Mediterranean Sea School. SL
Sa Pedrera 9 , Port Andratx, 07157, Mallorca.
Tel: 01925 642909