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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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Day in the life, a day on board.

First thing for the skipper is to check the weather forecast 08.15hrs, as this will determine where we go this day. When you’re awake and revived with a cuppa etc, there is then ‘meditation’ time, depending on the weather, you will be in the cockpit or down in the main cabin. This is followed by breakfast, usually cooked by the skipper, eggs, bacon, toast, fruit, drinks etc.  Shared clean up afterwards.

Before setting out sailing we might do some exercises based on Tai Chi to help your balance and get you better attached to the boat. Time to prepare yourselves and the boat for sailing.

The days sailing will be dependent on conditions, but the morning will be sailing and learning and practicing  various skills. Working as a team manoeuvring the boat, taking turns at helming (steering) and trimming sails etc.

The helming has been developed into a great therapeutic tool, firstly helming by sighting a distant object, then as you improve, helming by compass,( thinking) then helming by wind,( feeling) and finally if you’re up for it to helm blindfolded.( all your senses)!

You prepare lunch when we have anchored in some beautiful part of the coast. Soup, bread, cheese, cold meats, cake and then some consider the best part of the day a ‘siesta’. When done and cleared up you will be off again to sail until we find our night time anchorage spot. This will be somewhere quiet, safe, and I hope beautiful.

You are split into pair’s to prepare dinner. Which usually consists of a main hot dish and plenty of it, cake, and fruit? Whoever cooks doesn’t wash up, which is done then, after dinner.

In order to finish by 21.30hrs (9.30pm) there is a one hour therapeutic group, facilitated by the skipper/therapist. This is time to reflect on the day’s experiences, reflect on how you feel and what are you thinking and process these thoughts and feelings. You are encouraged to think and a most important question will probably be, how does this experience help you ashore.

If conditions are right and the whole crew are willing there may be a short night sail. Otherwise having been out doors and having such a healthy day your cot/cabin will look most attractive and be ready for sleep.