The charity provides training and experience in maritime skills, where our primary aim in Christchurch is to provide assistance to the comunity in and around the harbour helping with the safety and activity of harbour users, especially at weekends from Easter until early autumn.

We don’t have an office or HQ but we meet weekly at the Christchurch Rowing Club on a Wednesday evening, and run harbour patrols and training afloat and ashore, throughout the year.

Membership is open to anyone over 18 years age, with our training programme designed to teach from introductory levels, based broadly on the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) as a benchmark, albeit we welcome experienced mariners as well.