Schools: Invite your students to soak up the culture, history, and spectacular beauty of the British and French coastlines on beautiful traditional sailboats that fly your school’s crest.
collaboration | character |self-esteem | Problem solving | new perspectives
Sailing is perhaps the most impactful outdoor adventure platform there is, especially for teens who aren’t extremely physically fit. The numerous challenges and tasks required to sail our traditional boats combine to create an optimum life-success experience. Participants learn collaboration, problem solving, resilience, and trust and go home with new-found confidence and fresh perspectives. Mix in strong European cultural, historical, and environmental components and you have the stuff that brighter futures are made of.
✅ Your students learn a thrilling new skill on head-turning classic sailboats you won’t find elsewhere.
✅ Students have numerous cultural discovery opportunities in off-the-beaten-path France and England.
✅ Each expedition features unique outdoor adventure challenges designed and supervised by a former expeditions master and sailing coach at one of Switzerland’s most prestigious international schools.
✅ A customizable curriculum allows you to offer students something truly special. Schools can opt for additional instruction by their own faculty members or by European experts recruited by QBE. Plus, you can help select your destinations from a list we provide. We can also help organize tours to cultural centers and historical sites not on a standard QBE itinerary.
✅ We offer competitive pricing on all sailing expeditions and additional on-shore activities. When you consider all you get, QBE Sailing is a tremendous bargain.
✅ QBE Sailing is safe, and unlike many other outdoor adventure courses, there are no potentially dangerous ticks or mosquitoes to contend with.
✅ The cultural exposure and personal-development training provide endless ideas for winning university admission essays.
✅ For an additional fee we can fly your school’s logo/crest on a large flag. Think of the impression it will make on prospective parents and students when they see the pics in your admissions collateral and on social media feeds.
✅ When it comes to both our classic boats and our finely honed personal-development program for teens, we out-deliver on every other outdoor adventure option we know of.
See how one school uses a sailing program to promote connected learning and supercharge its branding.
“There is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing around on boats.””
Of all the people you could find to take your students on a European adventure, especially a sailing expedition, you couldn’t pick anybody more qualified than William Sutherland—former Swiss ski school instructor, high-school sports master, and winning sailing coach at Cowes Week. And you couldn’t find better-suited boats or more Insta-worthy ones than the spectacular cutters he owns. That’s a fact.
“ I have known Will Sutherland for thirty years. We first met at Aiglon College in Switzerland when he was an experienced and successful housemaster.
I soon found out the excellent reputation Will had both as a housemaster in two different boys' houses and head of sports. He possesses great empathy, and the boys could always count on his support and guidance to remain or get back on the right track. He ran his house a little like he would now run a crew, creating a sense of collaboration, effort and cohesion which, in the words of so many old boys whom I met in subsequent years, prepared them thoroughly for their adult lives.
I am fully confident in recommending him very highly to you.”
—Didier Boutroux
Recently retired headmaster of Le Régent Crans-Montana College, Switzerland
