Imagine your students soaking up the culture, history, and spectacular beauty of the English and French coastlines on beautiful traditional sailboats that fly your school’s crest.

collaboration | character |Confidence | Problem solving | new perspectives

Outstanding Instruction, excellent facilities, and mind-opening experiences. These are three of the essential prerequisites for a top-shelf secondary education. QBE levers all three. We provide expert instruction from seasoned sailors and teachers. We use spectacular classic boats and off-the-beaten-path seaside destinations as our classrooms. And as for all the experiences? Well, you’d be hard pressed to find a more compelling alternative.

Though perhaps frequently not in the mix when people think about outdoor adventure and leadership, sailing is perhaps the most impactful OA platform there is, especially for those teens who aren’t very 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.

✅ Nothing beats the camaraderie, daily adrenaline rushes, and life-elevating personal satisfaction of small-yacht sailing in our spectacular corner of Europe

✅ Your students learn a thrilling new skill on photogenic classic sailboats you won’t find elsewhere.

✅ Students have numerous cultural discovery opportunities as they sail two coastlines: 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 your students 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 images in your admissions collateral and on friends’ 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’re aware of.

“ 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
Retired headmaster of Le Régent Crans-Montana College
and the Verbier International School, Switzerland

Yes, please contact me about QBE expeditions for school groups.

For information on pricing or other details, contact Will Sutherland at ws@qbeglobal.net