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Donations of any amount are always a great help to a small charity like SailadayOK.
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Here's a few examples of how your donation can help:

  • £40 will pay the fuel bill and mooring fees for a 4 day/night session
  • £100 will pay for one person for a 4 day/night session 
  • £20 will buy by the food and provisions for the whole crew for a day.

Our Mission

                This is what defines Sailaday OK, what we do and hope to achieve .

  • The Sailaday Ok experience is an adventure/wilderness therapy at sea.
  • We work with those recovering from addictions, abuse and trauma.
  • The primary aim is for the participants to have a positive experience of themselves.
  • This experience gives them tools to help their completion of treatment and eventually re-integration into the community.
  • This is a therapeutic, healthy, physical, educational, self-esteem enhancing and enjoyable pursuit.

What We Do

Invite you to participate in.....

  • A  therapeutic  adventure sailing activity
  • For 3 to 5 days and nights at sea with a  qualified therapist and skipper
  • Sailing from Falmouth along the beautiful south coast of Cornwall
  • We work with about 50/60 persons a year.

 

Primary Aims and Outcomes

  • Participants  report feeling physically healthier and feel more able/  responsible for taking care of themselves physically
  • Participants report improved self esteem, improved self reliance, and increased sense of hope.
  • Participants  report benefits from the experience of team work and co-operation and a more
    •         positive attitude toward relationships
  • Participants in Sailaday OK are more likely to complete treatment
  • Sailaday OK will offer volunteering opportunities to people from the wider community;
    •         and will also provide mentoring to previous participants.

Volunteer Vacancies

We are currently looking for people who can help us in the following areas:

  • Boat Maintenance during the winter
  • Office Administration
  • Urgently wanting volunteers to build a team for 'Events'

      manning a stall to increase awareness and collect funds.

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What we do

The Sailaday Ok experience is an adventure/wilderness therapy at sea for those recovering from addictions, abuse and trauma. It is a charity established in 2006. The primary aim is for the participants to have a positive experience of themselves. The experience gives them tools to help their completion of treatment and eventually re-integration into the community. The Sailaday Ok experience has proved extremely successful, it changes lives.

Sailings are for three to five days duration, aboard a 33ft. cruising yacht. You don’t leave the boat until she returns at the end of the session. Collection and delivery is from Falmouth, Cornwall

This is a therapeutic, healthy, physical, educational, self-esteem enhancing and enjoyable pursuit. It offers participants an opportunity to increase personal awareness, physical competence, practice problem solving skills, communication and interpersonal skills. Participants will get the benefit of an experienced therapist and qualified professional skipper.  Working as a team participants learn to lead and cooperate and will be expected to take part in all the actives of running a boat and therapeutic exercises and group work...

Richard Lannowe Hall is an experienced mariner and qualified therapist. He is an RYA certificated Commercial skipper and a member of BACP The boat ‘Physis’ is a 33ft Westerly Ketch.  She is comfortable, stable, safe and well-equipped and conforms to YDSA standards for safety and seaworthiness.

Cornwall offers some the best sailing in Europe and has a most beautiful coastline, creeks and estuaries and many peaceful and remote anchorages, fascinating harbours which provide the perfect environment in which to reflect on the days achievements whilst moored overnight.

There is also a great range of wildlife to be seen including dolphins, seals, sharks and a variety of birds.