About Allabroad Instructors
- Dave Punch (Principal)
- Background
- Dave is way ahead of the game in all sorts of subjects such as boat electronics, engines and systems. He gets fantastic feedback on all his practical and theory courses and is well liked by all students.
- As you will see from his list of qualifications, he’s ridiculously overqualified! If it wasn’t for the fact that his qualifications are all sea-based, we’d be a bit concerned that he might leave and get a job at NASA.
- Qualifications
- RYA MCA Yachtmaster Instructor (Sail)
- SRC VHF (including GMDSS) (Theory) Instructor & Examiner
- GMDSS - General Operators Certificate
- RYA Diesel Engine (Theory) Instructor
- RYA Radar (Theory) Instructor
- MCA STCW 95 Elementary First Aid Instructor
- MCA STCW 95 Personal Survival Techniques Instructor
- MCA Proficiency in Medical First Aid On Board Ship
- MCA Proficiency in Medical Care On Board Ship
- RYA First Aid Instructor
- HSE First Aid at Work Instructor & Examiner
- Sailing Time
- Dave has been sailing since he was 14 (that’s over 22 years).
- Instructing Time
- Over 7 years.
- Interests
- Science and new technology
- Electronics
- Music (you might be surprised to learn that he’s a great pianist)
- Tony (Chief Instructor Sail)
Tony was brilliant—very calm and unflappable and patient with explaining things to me several times. He was very good at letting people get on with things and made it thoroughly enjoyable.
- Background
- Tony is a great sailor and loves every minute of it. He is a true gentleman, and is well liked around the marina and by his students. He has a wealth of experience, and provides excellent courses. Cool, calm and collected, Tony is the one to be with if you ever get caught in a storm.
- Qualifications
- MCA RYA Yachtmaster Ocean (Sail) Instructor (Sail)
- MCA STCW 95 Personal Survival Techniques Instructor
- RYA Sea Survival Instructor
- Sailing Time
- Tony has been sailing for a long time. A very long time.
- Instructing Time
- Over 5 years.
We learned a hell of a lot from his professional approach and high standards. I hope I can keep up the same energetic enthusiasm for life and sailing when I am his age!
- Interests
- Sailing
- Sailing
- Sailing
- Oh, and did we mention sailing?
- Vic (Chief Instructor, Power)
- Background
- Vic has been sailing for many years and has over 50,000 miles under his belt. Vic provides support to all online course users.
- Qualifications
- RYA MCA Yachtmaster Instructor (Sail)
- RYA MCA Yachtmaster Instructor (Power)
- RYA MCA Yachtmaster Ocean
- SRC VHF (including GMDSS) (Theory) Instructor & Examiner
- Sailing Time
- At least 21 years
- Instructing Time
- Over 10 years.
- Interests
- Photography
- Wildlife
- Astronomy
- Travel & Camping
- Nick
Nick is a seriously talented instructor, good at at adjusting to different needs amongst the students. Awesome guy.
Whole experience was above and beyond what I expected.
- Background
- Nick completed his Fast Track to Yachtmaster Offshore Sail and Power with Allabroad in early 2010. He loved it so much he wanted to stay, and we simply wouldn’t let him leave without him passing on his enthusiasm for all things on-the-water too! Before this he was an aircraft engineer and electrician. A people person who always enjoy meeting and inter-acting with new clients and taking them somewhere they haven’t been to before. Loves being on the water and loves instructing. After all the high seas is the ultimate office to work in!
- Qualifications
- RYA Yachtmaster Instructor (Sail)
- RYA MCA Yachtmaster Offshore (Power)
Nick was a really great instructor. He was so patient and he explained everything so well. He also tailored everything to cover the fact that all of us were at totally different levels, and he gave each of us time and attention as needed. We really couldn’t have had a better instructor! He basically kept pushing us (in a nice way) out of our comfort zones every day. Dreadful toast maker though!! ;o) but really his enthusiasm made me really take to sailing, and I hope to keep it up now.
- Sailing Time
- Over 4000m cruising miles and many, many miles racing his jetski in UK waters.
- Instructing Time
- Just under a year
Did your experience with Allabroad last week meet your expectations?
Absolutely and much more. The exercises Nick did with us in Smir, getting into a berth backward, forward and sideways was so helpful. And then putting this into practice the next days, springing off the stern, and berthing made it all come alive. The exercises on the final day were also so good. And the sailing was awesome.
- Interests
- Racing his jetski
- Anything to do with water, snow or motorbikes
- Fixing things
- Learning Spanish
- Allan
- Background
- Allen previously worked in the armed forces and in close protection, which took him to many countries. He is particularly good at preparing for Yachtmaster exams and likes to run a tight ship. He has a great attention to detail.
- Qualifications
- RYA Yachtmaster Instructor (Sail)
- RYA Cruising Instructor (Power)
- Sailing Time
- Allen first sailed at the age of 15 with the London Sailing Project, and continued during his time in the forces. He has commercial experience as a fast rescue boat coxswain in north sea. He also has 10,000 miles logged, including transatlantic crossings.
- Instructing Time
- Over three years
- Interests
- Motorbikes
- Skydiving
- Knitting. Okay, not really. That’s the last thing you’d see him doing … unless he was knitting a protective vest out of cold hard steel, with his bare hands.
- Christian
- Background
- A dive master having worked intensively in lovely tropical places, he decided in 2010 to become qualified above decks and joined Allabroad to achieve this.
- Qualifications
- RYA Yachtmaster Instructor (Sail)
- MCA RYA Yachtmaster Offshore (Power)
- Sailing Time
- One year
- Instructing Time
- Christian is new to instructing sailing but he’s a real natural, and has instructed diving for many years. We’ve never seen Christian not smiling, he’s a truly sunny person with a fantastic accent; his native language is Spanish.
- Interests
- Sailing
- Diving
- Kite-surfing
