My name is Paul Stringer. I have been involved in sailing all of my life, when I was a child we lived on a Thames sailing barge on the North Kent coast. The inevitable dinghy sailing led to bigger boats. I now own an old Nicholson racer built in the sixties. I lived aboard for several years before taking her to the Med.

I started Mustang Sailing a few years ago to deliver high quality theory courses to sailors in the South East., reasoning that there was no need for people in the South East to drive all the way to the Solent just to sit in a classroom.

Since then we have built a solid reputation for excellent courses, due to our policy of engaging the best freelance instructors to deliver the specialist courses that I don't teach myself. Now we have expanded into practical courses due to demand from our students who wanted to do all their training with us.

Theory courses are run at our training centre at Ringmer near Lewes in central Sussex. We operate from a converted barn. The peace and quiet and feeling of space create a tranquility that makes the 'getting down to studying' thing a bit easier.

Practical courses are run from Haslar Marina at Gosport (Portsmouth Harbour). I feel there is no point in trying to operate off the exposed Sussex coast when the Solent is so close. The Solent is a brilliant place to train due to the richness of the 'teaching aids' like extensive buoyage, eccentric tides, lots of traffic of all sizes and many interesting places to visit. All nice and close together and sheltered by the \isle of Wight from the worst of the Channel weather.

Mustang Sailing is an 'owner driven' business. When you call you will receive our undivided attention, you'll get unbiased advice if you need it. You won't get hard sell or uninformed flannel. In the unlikely event that we don't answer the phone then leave a message, we always return calls.