OCEAN WIND GmbH
Ocean Wind is a family owned company formed in 2013, providing quality Marine Services. We have been conducting sail training courses as an International Yacht Training accredited sailing school since 2014. Training will take place on our own vessel, Ocean Wind, a Bavaria 42. Ocean Wind is also available for crewed charter
Ocean Wind are:
- John Parsons
Commercial skipper with the following qualifications and experience:- Australian Yachting Federation (AYF) Yachtmaster Instructor
- USL Master 5 (Australian commercial qualification)
- RYA Offshore Yachtmaster (commercially endorsed)
- General Radio Operators certificate (GOC)
- STCW 95 certificates for a commercial seaman
- IYT bareboat skipper Instructor
- PADI Divemaster
- Commercial Skipper, both sail and motor on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia
- Offshore Yachtmaster Instructor for the Australian Yachting Federation (AYF)
- Charter Base manager for Yachting 2000 in Croatia
- Charter Skipper for Yachting 2000 in Croatia
- IYT Bareboat Skipper Instructor for Yacht Training 2000 in Croatia
- Sailing Instructor, Segelschule Thunersee, in Switzerland
- Skipper of the 34mtr Ketch "Blue Leopard" from Italy to Malta via Scotland, Ireland and France
- Speaks:
- English (mother tongue)
- German
- French
- Spanish
- Julia Parsons
- Diploma of Sports education (Federal Sports Academy, Vienna)
- Passionate sailor
- PADI Open Water Diver
- Crew member and hostess of the 34mtr Ketch "Blue Leopard" from Italy to Malta via Scotland, Ireland and France
- Speaks:
- German (mother tongue)
- English
When it's too cold for sailing, both John and Julia are to be found at home in Wengen in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland where they both teach for the local Ski School.