Get out there! Live your dreams! Sailing Lessons with Flying Bulldog Sailing School

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  • ISPA Sailing School BC
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    • ISPA Sailing School BC
    • Course Information
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    • Practical Tune-up Course
    • Professional Instructors
    • Contact Us
    • COVID-19 SAFETY PLAN
    • TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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  • ISPA Sailing School BC
  • Course Information
  • ISPA Courses and Pricing
  • Practical Tune-up Course
  • Professional Instructors
  • Contact Us
  • COVID-19 SAFETY PLAN
  • TERMS AND CONDITIONS

John Garfitt, P.Eng., ISPA IE, YM Ocean

MARINE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

MARINE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

MARINE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

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Flying Bulldog Sailing School Ltd., Vancouver, BC, Canada

Owner/Chief Instructor

⦁ ISPA Yachtmaster Ocean – Sail

⦁ ISPA Yachtmaster Offshore – Power

⦁ ISPA Instructor Evaluator (IE)

⦁ Flying Bulldog Sailing School is a Transport Canada approved RBS (Recreational Boating School) 

⦁ Teaching focus: ISPA International Certificates of Competency 

Complete Program

⦁ Single-handed sailing program

⦁ Purchased and refit Warlock, a 1982 Baltic 51 centre-board cutter for sail training – Warlock is a Inspected Vessel under the Transport Canada Small Vessel Compliance Program (SVCP)

⦁ International Sail & Power Academy (ISPA), Vancouver, BC, Canada. Director of Quality Assurance responsible for the quality and content of the ISPA curriculum

⦁ Certified and evaluated instructors in accordance with ISPA guidelines

⦁ Past President of ISPA (1997 – 1999)

⦁ ISPA BOD (1996 – 2002)

Pacific Adventure Sailing

Owner/Chief Instructor

⦁ ISPA Yachtmaster Ocean - Sail, IE

⦁ Teaching and Certifying the ISPA International Certificates of Competency 

Crusader Sailing School

Owner/Chief Instructor

⦁ ISPA Yachtmaster Ocean – Sail, IE

⦁ Teaching and Certifying the ISPA International Certificates of Competency 

Prior Professional Career

Catamaran Ferries International, Queenship Yacht Works, Elliot Bay Design Group, OceanWorks, Zodiac-Hurricane Technologies, Northern Marine, Whitewater West Industries

Professional Marine Engineer, Engineering Manager, VP Quality

SAILING

MARINE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

MARINE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

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Boats Owned

⦁ O’Day 25 sloop “Dove”, 1992 – 1993

⦁ Ontario 32 sloop “Crusader”, 1993 – 2002

⦁ Nautor’s  Swan 41 sloop “Pleiades”, 2005 – 2012

⦁ Baltic 51 center-board cutter “Warlock”, 2018 - present

Sailing Credentials

⦁ ISPA Yachtmaster Ocean – Sail

⦁ ISPA Yachtmaster Offshore – Power

⦁ ISPA IE (Instructor Evaluator) (CAD97003)

⦁ Personal Survival at Sea – BC Sailing – 2020

⦁ Vic-Maui Preparation Seminar – 2020

⦁ Weather Routing – 2020

⦁ First-Aid/CPR 2019

⦁ Restricted Marine Radio Operator Licence (VHF ROC (M) DSC, 1992

⦁ PCOC (Pleasure Craft Operator Card) 2002

Sea Miles

⦁ Total: 65000 nm since 1993, mostly single-handed in the coastal waters of BC on my own boats including 4000 nm aboard Warlock in 2019

⦁ Total: 10,000 nm offshore passages as skipper

⦁ Circumnavigation of Vancouver Island – Skipper, Swan 41 - Professional Instructor Teaching YM Offshore – 

⦁ Circumnavigation of Vancouver Island – Skipper, Swan 41 - Teaching YM Offshore – 

⦁ Swiftsure - deck crew aboard Neptune’s Car, Santa Cruz 70, 

⦁ Jakarta to Ujung Panjang to Manado – Skipper, Swan 50 – 1650 nm and return 1996

⦁ Jakarta to Mataram – Skipper, Swan 50 – 750 nm and return 1996 

⦁ Jakarta to Singapore – Skipper, Swan 50 – 750 nm and return 1995

⦁ Perth to Jakarta – Skipper, Swan 50 – 1800 nm and return 1996

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

MARINE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

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⦁ Motorcycling


⦁ Painting ⦁ https://john-garfitt.pixels.com


⦁ Fluent English, conversational French and Mandarin


⦁ Widely read in science, art and the history of the 20th century

Professional Instructor ISPA


  • ISPA Sailing School BC
  • Course Information
  • ISPA Courses and Pricing
  • Practical Tune-up Course
  • Professional Instructors
  • Contact Us
  • COVID-19 SAFETY PLAN
  • TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Flying Bulldog Sailing School Ltd

Vancouver, BC, Canada

604 760 7021

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