About Us

The Company

Dream or Two Ltd has been established as a sailing school for 15 years. We
offer courses, sailing holidays and cruises in the Solent and beyond, all year
round.

Our aim is to provide opportunities for individuals to enjoy their sailing experiences, whatever their level of ability (from beginner to yachtmaster).
We pride ourselves on our flexible and highly personalised service and our
clients seem to agree, with over 80% returning to sail with us again!

As an RYA (Royal Yachting Association) accredited Training Centre we
operate to the highest safety standards. All courses and cruises are led by
qualified instructors and our boats are correctly coded for commercial use.

Jannine Stoodley

An RYA Yachtmaster Instructor, she is the Dream or Two Principal and Chief Instructor. Jannine’s sailing career began pre-Sunsail on flotilla in the Greek Islands.

She moved to Wales to become Principal and Senior Instructor of a community led watersports centre before returning to lead our UK activities.

Having spent so many years teaching and racing Jannine really understands the importance of non-threatening and ego free sailing.

Chris Fawcett

Operates on his Gibsea 442, aptly named ‘Dream or Two’!

Chris has over 40 years of yachting and teaching experience and has accumulated over 250000 sea miles. He is a retired RYA Yachtmaster Instructor and has led 15 Fast-track courses between the UK and Gibraltar.

He is currently cruising the Atlantic Islands and the Caribbean for Dream or Two.

Rae Hurst

Works on bookings and administration and she lets you know the time and place to join your yacht.

Rae is from New Zealand and she loves the outdoors and sailing, taking any opportunity to come along as crew!

She also does the cooking for our courses and trips from the Solent and is now well renowned for her chocolate cake and brownies - truly scrumptious!

Steve Lawson - RYA Cruising Instructor.

Steve lives on the Isle of Wight and he has been sailing for over 20 years, skippering yachts in the solent, channel Islands and the coasts of Brittany and Normandy.

He supports our high standards and ethos and his aim is to achieve his RYA Yachtmaster Ocean practical qualification, when he has any spare time from instructing for Dream or Two!

Koru

A Dream or Two yacht. She is a Beneteau First 36.7 cruiser/racer. She is classy, spacious and totally gorgeous to sail, whether carrying a group of beginners or racing during Cowes Week!

She was built in 2002 and was originally privately owned, so her condition is A1. Koru is fully coded to enable us to use her for teaching and she sleeps 6; having 3 cabins plus saloon.

For teaching we use a furling genoa and flaking mainsail (Sanders sails) and for racing we additionally have a spinnaker and carbon fibre genoas.

Our yacht takes her name from our logo, the Koru - a Maori design.

The Koru is often used in Maori art as a symbol of the beginning of life (creation). It is based on the unfurling of a new leaf of the Silver Fern and is seen to represent new beginnings, growth, strength, peace and harmony and positive change.