Contact, Opening hours More about Sjösportskolan
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About SJÖSPORTSKOLAN
Sjösportskolan is a privately held company that offers both beginners and professionals training and adventures at sea. We are one of Sweden’s largest in sailing and boating education. We arrange adventure sailing in Sweden and abroad, and also offer bareboat and crewed yacht charter for Swedes and foreigners. Throughout the year we provided intensive training courses for recreational and professional yachtsmen. We offer many courses in English for example: STW95 Basic safety training and International Master of Yachts.
Sjösportskolans office is located by the seaside a approximately 15 min from Gothenburg centre and approximately 30 min from the international airport. Our bareboat and crewed yacht fleet is located in our own marina at Långedrags port 150 meters north of the office. Our course rooms are also rented out as meeting/conference rooms. Sjösportskolan has organized courses and sailing events for individuals and businesses since 1967.
PERSONAL
Sjösportskolan has a large network of skippers,instructors and we are seven staff in the office. You can read more about us below.
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| KARL NORDSTRÖM (Owner) |
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| Kalle is co-owner and CEO of Sjösportskolan. Kalle is educated at Chalmers, but the sea and boating are his great passion since childhood on an island in Blekinge. Kalle has been a charter skipper in particular the Caribbean. He has Swedish and international certificate, including ship and engineer officer class 8 and Master of Yachts. Kalle is active in several boating organizations. |
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| NINA NORDSTRÖM (Owner) |
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Marketing and IT-manager
Nina is the daughter of shipowners and has sailed the oceans since childhood. As an adult, she cruised around the Caribbean and worked on the charter boat. Nina is a partner in Sjösportskolan and is responsible for marketing and publishing business. She is trained in marketing and skilled photographer.
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| KAROLINA COLLIANDER |
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Course Booking
Karolina works with sales and course booking in Sjösportskolan. She has extensive training in communications and has among other things worked as a project manager for events and conferences. |
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| JENS HULTBERG |
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Technology, materials and service
Jens is a mechanic with many years experience of engines from all over the world. Besides keeping Sjösportskolans boats in good condition, he is responsible for sending out books and course materials.
In addition to Ship Officer class 8 Jens is also a diving instructor that prefers to swim in Zanzibar's warm waters.
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| GERHARD CHRONHOLM |
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Training Manager
Gerhard is responsible for the education at Sjösportskolan. Now he teaches only Master of Yachts, but has previously worked with both professional and recreational courses. Gerhard has made a number of sailings, the longest from Lysekil to Seattle on the U.S. west coast. Previously he has worked with everything from catering, project management to sales of sailboats. |
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| EDWARD ADOLPHSSON |
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Website and Booking
Edward has worked with web and customer contact at Sjösportskolan since 2003. "Eddie Wheeler" much rather play guitar than sailing, and argues that a fender is a guitar from the 50s.
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| JOHAN TENGSTRÖM |
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Head teacher
Johan is a high school teacher of physics and mathematics, but has kept the boat courses for many years even though he is only 30 +. John works full-time teaching Ship and engineer officer, and Coastal Skipper and Control Certificate for high speed. |
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HISTORY
Sjösportskolan was founded 1967 and run during the first 30 years by Dick Berghede . Dick Bergehede sold the company 1999 to two former employees Nina and Karl Nordstrom and today the company has seven permanent employes. We have a number of fine ships in our fleet. 2005-2006 our largest charter boat, Farr 65 Celeste was used in the Volvo Ocean Race as PR-boat. Since then Celeste has become a popular charter boat and she goes even to the Faroe Islands with groups.
2007 we moved into the Sea Rescue building in Långedrags port. Together with Kryssarklubben, the West Coast Sailing Association and the West Coast Boat Association we are now part of a boating center. We all want to promote a safer and more prosperous boating.
Sjösportskolan has a large network of navigation teachers and thanks to them we can keep the high quality of our courses. We also work closely with training companies in western Sweden and provide materials and information about boating education. For some years now a investigaton is done by the goverment regarding if boat driving licens should be mandatory. Sjösportskolan is part of the process and you are welcome to call us to get more information.
Sjösportskolan has a long history of close cooperation with the university Chalmers. 2004, together with Chalmers we got certified by the Maritime Administration to teach "High speed craft handling". We did an international version of this course for the Portoguese coast guard.
Sjösportskolan began in 2005 on cooperation with International Yacht Training to offer courses for Master of Yachts, an international education for charter skippers valid in 25 countries.
2009 Sjösportskolans new marina was finished, 150 meters north of the office where our course and charter boats lie. In addition to our training ship Nawica, we now also own two speedboats used in training.
Early History
Sjösportskolan was founded in 1967 by Dick Berghede with the purchase of the ship Westkust. In the beginning the activity was concentrated around this old schooner. Westkust was a familiar silhouette as the starting ship in Marstrand Fjord and was used as a touring, educational and a camp boat.
A close cooperation with GKSS, Gothenburg Royal Yacht Club and Långedrag sailing courses emerged. As a natural continuation a cooperation was initiated with Pelle Petterson, this gave the opportunity to buy an old warehouse in Smögen that was converted to a study center. This popular training center close to the sea has been used since 1980 but the activities is now run totally by GKSS.
Early Sjösportskolan saw a great need for support to existing navigational training in our area. Dick Berg Hede together with Gert Lindbom wrote the textbook "Course and Bearing" which thanks to a straightforward language, clear images and up to date information, is the book most widely used on the West Coast of Sweden.
Already twenty years ago, Sjösportskolan began to invite teachers to navigation seminar in connection with the boat show in Gothenburg. This has now become an institution that collects a full house every time.
West Coast was sold after 20 years to Orust and is today sailing as school ship. As a replacement MS Nawica was purchased, a two-masted steel ship and she now serves as a highly appreciated and used training ship. Our charter was launched with sailing weeks in the Mediterranean. Pretty soon we also started with sailing to exotic locales in the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean. Many participants have experienced an unforgettable sailing experience with Sjösportskolan.
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