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- Boating Equipment
- Hydrovane Wind powered self-steering gear for long distance cruisers and watermakers.
- Insurance Companies
- Owner's associations
- PYD skippers in the news
- Road transport
- Sailing Schools
- First Class Sailing - Leading London sailing school originally founded by a pyd skipper and now run by another
- Hamble School of Yachting - Solent based sailing school with an excellent team of instructors and run by a former pyd skipper
- UKSA - The largest sail training organisation of its type in the World.
- Joint Services Adventurous Sail Training Centre - One of the most demanding and intensive means of becoming qualified as a Yachtmaster - not for the faint hearted! One of pyd's directors did most of his sail training here.
- Atlantic Charters - RYA sail training in sunny Gibraltar. A top school run by a pyd group skipper
- The Natural Navigator - Tristan Gooley has long held a passion in natural navigation and his interest stems from his hands-on experience. He has led expeditions in five continents, climbed mountains in Europe, Africa and Asia, sailed small boats across oceans and piloted small aircraft to Africa and the Arctic. He is also a pyd client.
- Flying Fish - The only Royal Yachting Association (RYA) sea school offering sailing courses in both Australia and the UK.
- Surveyors etc.
- Mecal - Leading consultants for UK vessel coding
- Jim Pritchard Ltd. - Specialists in yacht surveys and the management of large yacht building, refit and repair projects.
- Abbey Yachts - All surveys and inspections are carried out by Tony Staton-Bevan, a Fellow of the Yacht Designers and Surveyors Association*.
He is a long established, fully qualified surveyor and author of technical books and articles, published worldwide, including “Osmosis and Glassfibre Yacht Construction”, printed in three languages.
He is recognized as an authority on glassfibre construction, osmosis and other types of blistering in glassfibre craft.
He was afloat in his first boat at the age of 10 and progressed to an apprenticeship in yacht and boat building, studying yacht construction and naval architecture at college. After a further nine years in the yachting industry, in 1978 he formed Abbey Yachts, specializing in the survey of glass reinforced plastic (GRP) and other forms of fibre reinforced plastic.
He was also at school with our founder!
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