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Are you looking for some help to make your sailing dreams a reality?

THE BLUEWATER CRUISING MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

Achieve Your Bluewater Sailing Dreams

We're here to help you develop and achieve your bluewater sailing dreams through a series of confidential, one-on-one conversations and bluewater cruiser learning simulations.

Having An Experienced Sounding Board

We can answer burning questions to quickly reduce worries and/or concerns and discuss potential plans, ideas, and decisions whether you need help with the boat buying process, making the transition to boat life or making a success out of the sailing lifestyle. 

Keeping It Real - The Good, Bad, and Ugly

We’re not here to sell the lifestyle and discuss only the positive aspects. We're here to give independent, unbiased, experience-based feedback. We’ll flag problem areas or speak out if we see something that’s not realistic. We'll help to set accurate expectations.

Saving You Time, Money, And Unneccessary Stress

With eight years of boat ownership under our belts, having been hauled out over 25 times doing major and minor refits/renovations. And with over 30,000 nautical miles of sailing we know how to do things quicker, for less expense & with reduced stress levels. 

Who Are We? Meet The Browns & Britican

If you don’t know who we are, check out one of our 200+ YouTube videos. Also, spend time looking over our 400+ articles that are on our Sailing Britican website. We’ve been sailing an Oyster 56′ (monohull) since 2014 and have done over 30,000 nautical miles circumnavigating the Mediterranean, crossing the Atlantic and sailing the US east coast and the Caribbean (twice). We’re a family of three. 

Liveaboard cruiser experience

Captain & First Mate

Simon (British) is the Captain and Kim (American), the First Mate. We've been sailing full-time since March 2014. Previously we had a Moody 346 on the south coast of England for a couple years.
Grenada's Hidden Gem For Sailors

The Admiral

Sienna (British & American) has been sailing since she was 9 months old. She went full-time at the age of 3 1/2 and has now lived aboard a boat longer than she lived on land. That's why she's the Admiral.
Racing An Oyster Yacht

The Boat

Britican is BRITish plus amerICAN put together. She's a 2003 Oyster bluewater cruiser. Weighing 35 ton she was made to cross oceans and keep her guests safe in heavy weather. 

This Britican Club is for those that want a hand

Buying a boat and sailing off into the sunset is incredibly awesome but it’s not a quick process. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of small and large decisions that have to be made. To enable success to those that need our support most, we’ve created The Britican Club. We can help you with:

Choosing The Right Boat

Finding A Professional Broker

Budgeting & Forecasting

Cruiser Sailing Skills

Family Dynamics On A Boat

Passage Planning Drills

Marina/Boatyard Selection

Kit Check

Getting Experience/Education

Local Knowledge

Introduction to Other Cruisers

Provision Planning

When we started living the sailing lifestyle we had no clue what we were getting ourselves into.

The learning curve was overwhelming. We made so many mistakes. Way too often we spent money that we could have saved, made errors that we should have avoided and ultimately reinvented the wheel way too many times.

With so many extensive text-book style boat manuals, sailing forums, YouTube channels and sailing bloggers, we got lost. When issues came up we didn’t know where to find the important bit of information we needed. Sailing books seemed to be overly complicated and confusing.

Responses to questions asked in forums often made us feel bad for asking the question in the first place (duh..how do you not know that?).

YouTube channels can’t be searched so even if you recall seeing a sailing vlog cover something it’s often impossible to find it again! And sailing bloggers have great content but it’s often hard to find on their website (and I include myself in that! Our website has over 400 articles that are very helpful but creating a way that’s easy to find what you need is not so easy).

Sailing Britican Club

"Simon and Kim transferred an enormous amount of knowledge and insight, much of which as stuck with me months later. I learned not only a bit on the ways of sailing, but they also regularly explained the nuances of choosing a boat, the finances and costs of ownership, maintaining and repairing them, along with how they wound up making the huge decision to sell everything and live on the sea!

I encourage anyone who is dreaming about a similar path or who’d simply like to learn to sail better to reach out to them. They are both very down to earth and will make whatever experience and learning you are seeking a joy, they are simply lovely folk." 

Andrew P Meadows

Britican Club Member, 2019
LisaM

“Simon and Kim – You’ve not only helped to keep us sane throughout the boat buying process but you saved us thousands of dollars.

If it weren’t for your thoughtful consideration of our situation, we would have purchased the wrong boat and had a potential nightmare on our hands. And now that we’re out on the water, in our dreamboat, I value your assistance with the passage planning and all the other things that pop into my head.

Armed with all your amazing checklists and guides and knowing that you’re at the end of the phone or an email has truly made our experience less stressful. Anyone that’s interested in buying a boat and sailing off into the sunset needs to have you two around!”

Lisa Mann

Britican Club, 2019

What we also found once we got into the sailing lifestyle is that there are a whole host of armchair sailors that love to cut you down if you don’t know everything.

The sailing world is so full of jargon and even salty seadogs will look at you like you’ve got a third eye when you don’t know the accurate terminology (How dare you ask what reefing means – you shouldn’t be a sailor if you don’t know that)!

Looking back, what we needed was to be able to send an email or pick up the phone and call someone.

Sometimes our questions were broad like: What size boat would be best for our family and budget? Where do I start when it comes to homeschooling? How much does it cost to keep the boat going on a monthly basis? As time went on, our questions became more specific like: How do we save money by servicing our engines/motors ourselves? How do we clean our fresh water tank? Does our passage plan from A to B make sense? Is this sailing gadget worth the money? And the questions, ‘Are we making the right decision? Are we doing things right?’ came up over and over again.

We had a few really good resources that we could go to get questions answered but felt bad asking too many things or taking up too much time.

We didn’t want to be a burden but we really wanted help. Eventually, however, the tide turned and instead of seeking answers to hundreds of questions we started answering those that have been following in our footsteps. Because of our learning curve, we’ve found answers and offered help, education, and insight through our blog articles, YouTube videos, sailing books, guides and…

So, now we’ve started The Britican Club to mentor over email and the phone (when not at sea).

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The Cost

The Britican Club offers a minimum of two phone calls per month and unlimited emails. 

A Single or Couple per month
$197 $100.00

Two monthly phone calls to answer questions, discuss objectives and report achievements. Unlimited email correspondence. 

$197 $100.00
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Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Can I join for one month only?

A. Of course. Whatever works best for you. There's no minimum or maximum membership time. 

Q. How does the payment work?

You'll be billed $100 for the first month and every month thereafter until you've gotten to a point where you don't need us anymore. 

Any Other Questions?

Send us an email on: Info@SailingBritican.com