Welcome to Sail!
Sailing is an active experience under the influence of the wind, sea and nature. With us you’ll learn safely a lot about sailing, seafaring and moving at the sea at the Finland archipelago.
Quidelines & Terms of Service
Sailing is extreme sport – when the wind is light, this may not feel much. But when things start to breeze up, attitude and preparation including gear starts to play a role. Therefore, we pay attention you to know where you’re coming before we set the sails. This ensures us all comfortable and safe voyage at the boat where challenges are convenient.
Please learn below about our sailing experiences before enrolling sailing with us. These are at the same time our Guidelines and Terms of Service for the experience.
1. SAIL TRAINING AS A CREW
Join sailing only healthy, well rested and open minded.
Familiarisation to the boat & gear is part of safety routine and comfort. We will instruct you to any tasks given and unless you are a paid cabin crew, no previous experience is needed.
There will always be the paid crew (including skipper and deckhand, and a cook when needed) assisting & guiding you. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.
You can join wether as a premium member or a guest trainee as part of the crew to the sail.
Requesting a sail as premium member, you pay a little extra to get ”the dinner done for you”. In this case you can concentrate only to the issues that are important to you, no matter if it is learning to sail or enjoying a relaxed and stress-free time at the sea. These trips are usually all-inclusive sailing experiences or high-class sail trainings. Private voyages are usually always premium voyages, unless you and your team are well experienced in sailing before and just want to get to the sea bringing your own food and self-helping with all duties below and above the deck.
As a guest trainee, you are presumed to participate self-imposed to normal sailing tasks, especially on longer trips, such as cleaning, cooking & dish turns, etc., while in turns learning about rope- & sail handling, navigating, steering and other duties on deck and at seawatch. These voyages are also a bit cheaper, but still includes a daily allowance to the boat and shared contribution to harbor fees and food.
No matter the type of the voyage, you will be nearly always expected to participate at least by some level for sailing duties on deck, based on sail-training methods as ”learning by doing”. We will always teach and make the biggest effort, but sometimes we may need you to pull a rope or move a better position. Sailing is, at the end of the day, activity that requires attention and action. Regular interactions as crew meetings and debriefings on the happenings of the day are part of the sailing progress with us. At best, this gives your team a sence of equality, openes and trust.
All voyages include pre-watchable videos as part of the familiarization. This will save time at the boat so we can leave to the sea faster. Those videos are mandantory for all participants to watch before coming to the boat (20 min). I will send required materials and links to you beforehand. Sail training classes include also external materials to study.
When joining as a paid / main crew (deckhand / ”gasti”), or enthusiastic trainee willing to become part of the main crew, check guidelines & requirements for skills here.
I also recommend you to join my e-mail list to get access to the learning & familiarization materials already. (unfortunately the materials are only yet to come in English).
2. THINGS YOU NEED
Things to take with you to the boat? More detailed here but shortly here:
- Water bottle
- Sunglasses, hat cover for the sun and sun cream
- Snacks for emergency cases (food may delay when weather is tough)
- Windproof clothing (there are rain jackets to loan at the boat)
- Phone chargers & powerbanks (there will not be electrycity available at the boat all the time)
There are sailing gloves and life-jackets to loan at the boat.
Things to take for over-night stay:
- Towel and swimming pants
- Soft bag (avoid hard-covered suitcases)
- Head light with spare batteries
- Hand-towel
- Sleeping bag, pillow and sheets for bed (sheets are mandantory to use in the bed. If you do not bring your own, the fee for sheets are 40e/ bed.) On premium+ voyages sheets are included in the prize, so you do not need to bring your own.
- When accommodation is at island (Seili or Maisaari), they normally have sheets, towels & bed stuff for You. Check accommodation options here: Seili (we recommend fyyri, portti or leipomo) and Maisaari.
SIGN IN your details well before the trip. This makes our job easier when preparing ie. food planning (sign-in details after informed dead-line leads you losing your spot on the open voyage.)
3. PAYMENT, INSURANCE and CANCELLATION DETAILS
The terms of payment, insurance and cancellation details below:
Pay the fee as we have agreed before the sail starts. Contact & payment details can be found here. We will send invoice / payment request for reservation whenever needed.
Business ID is: 3284690-8
I rent the boat only with a skilled & experienced skipper withelding required licences for chartering boat under the Finnish / Åland flags. Beside the skipper, there are often and whenever needed a deckhand / cook assisting in the boat.
You join always on your own full responsibility.
Cancellations: All payments are binging (expect when given deviant terms for a specific voyage).
FORCE MAJEURE: If weather, urgent machinery malfunction, skipper’s disease, official sanction, epidemic or other similar independent external reason prevents us to arrange the trip as agreed, you will get a full return from full-prize excluding a 10 % bureau fee (or at least 60e). During winter, if icing or weather prevents the trip, you will get a full return.
Weather reservation: if the wind is 14 m/s or over, we might delay the trip (10 m/s when there’s a big group or children). This is a good reference but the final say is always on the Skipper – he may cancel/stop the trip at any time due any safety related concerns.
We held no responsibility for the participants / crew for any losses due change of plans, i.e. travels to the boat or back home, even in urgent cancallation cases or schedule changes. The prevailing weather and forecast are always checked just before the trip for the last time.
Insurance
We have an insurance for the crew and participants, excluding the deductible fee (500€) which the everyone must cover for themselves if willing to use the insurence that we offer. The insurance does not cover gear, items, stuff or any luggage / baggage, so everybody must have their own travel insurance for their stuff & items. We do not cover any losses in any cases on guest’s / attendants gear or stuff.
4. FACILITIES & FOOD
We serve high-quality, healthy & near-produced food on the voyages. When ordering a short day trip, let us know if you wish us to arrange food services for you or shall you take care of your own food. On long trips and open-ticket trips, we serve often commonly prepared meals.
It’s good idea to have own snacks and little fruits (”emergency food”) always with you, no matter what kind of trip are you joining. This is because cooking may be delayed or you might get hungry before food is planned to be ready. At the Sea schedule changes are common.
Our fridge space is limited, so discuss beforehand if palnning to bring items in the cold.
FOOD & ALLERGIES: We cannot guarantee 100% safe environment for strictly allergic or hypersensitive people due very limited space in the boat. We can, however, take into account of small limits in food (allergies) if treatment is not severe and you let us know about it early enough on the sign-in form here (everone must fill this form before joining the voyage!)
Sanitary
There is a fancy toilet in the boat. However, due the very limited ”black-water” capacity, the nature or harbor facilities are our best sanitary when cruising (much like when hiking in the forest).
WASTE MANAGEMENT: We follow ZERO-WASTE -ideology on the boat as much as possible and practicable. Be aware what items you bring to the boat and bear in mind, we appriciate when you help us to keep the waste limited and take the thrash in the harbors. As a guest trainee / main crew, these matters should be your self-acting tasks.
5. SAFETY & ORDERS
The boat is my home while I share my private spaces with you. I respectfully request everyone stepping on our boat to understand and value this.
We enjoy freshness: please do not smoke, snuff or use any other intoxicants or substances on the boat. At islands, please respect the nature and collect your thrashes away and use your own travel-type close-able ashtray or thrash bin if needed.
Alcohol: Alcohol may be great to enjoy at the Sauna or island after sailing. At the Sea, however, the use of alcoholics are restricted and mainly completely forbidden. Please do not bring festive amounts of your own alcoholics to the boat without a separate agreement (a few beers for sauna or meals are welcomed). We held the right not take on board any persons carrying alcoholics or smelling / seeming inebriated. In such cases, the person must themselves cover their own expences to travel safely back home even from desert island.
During cruising, all the responsible related the boat and voyaging is on the Skipper. You are, however, responsible for your own condition and understanding these guidelines and/or commands during the trip.
The boat is easy to handle also by the Skipper alone. Follow guidance only as you understand them and notify the Skipper if you are uncertain of the plan!
We have the right for any changes to the plan, route, schedule etc. due weather or other compared reasons, also after the trip has started.
When cruising, please note that life-vests or any other safety orders and gear are mandatory to wear, any time when requested or conditions require so. There are life-vest for all crew (few sizes for children too – contact for details) and additionally we provide sailing gloves and rain jackets for you.
We photograph & film most of our voyages and agree on this the right to use the photos in public i.e. on our social media, on our web pages, publish on magazines or on any other media. Please let us clearly know if you do not want to be on the photos or videos – it’s your responsibility to let us know that wish not be photographed or present in the public photos.
When coming to sail, we assume you are familiar, follow and understand these guidelines. We have the right to remove any person who’s more than once not following the guidelines or requests of the skipper to the nearest or next harbor, by the full cost and responsibility of the removed person. Weather estimation is on the shoulders of the skipper – rain is rarely a reason to cancel the trip by us.
Whenever misunderstanding or disagreement should arise, we always try to find beautiful and harmonic solution for all parties (consensus solutions) so that relationship with people could stay pure. Not such a situation came up yet, where this would not have been the case.
Welcome to sail! I hope you enjoy the trip and get a lot of it.
There will be life vests and sailing gloves provided for loan in the boat. Else how, equip yourself with warm clothes, cheerful mind and.. let’s go to find a treasure!
I’m happy to answer any questions you might have.
Thank you for the interest – each voyage is unique and an adventure on the hands of the Creator!
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-Jasper Armanto
Sy Fareata / Captain
02-09-2023
Art Sail Training 