Consultancy
With over 20 years’ industry experience, The Bristol Maritime Academy have been involved at the very top of the watersports industry, managing and consulting on some of the world’s most successful watersports centres and government programs. We have also been instrumental in the development of current training schemes, safety legislation, operational procedures and income generation ideas used by leading hotels, leisure activity companies and national sailing authorities around the world.
With unlimited access to our team, with the business, management and training knowledge we can help build and develop a successful watersports project anywhere in the world with various consultancy options to our clients including;
- Market research
- Prospective venue appraisal
- Existing operation appraisal and audit
- Equipment procurement
- Venue design
- Risk assessment and operating procedures
- Expert witness
- Accident investigation and procedural review
- Specialist Training
UK & Overseas Centre Development
Many hotels with waterfront premises are missing out on significant revenue opportunity by not having a watersports provision or by using a third party concessionaire to run a facility, the Bristol Maritime Academy specialises in the provision of high quality watersports for high end hotels worldwide.
A professional facility should be run with the hotel having complete control of provision and standards of delivery to guests. This ensures that the hotel's objectives can be clearly met - improved revenue, quality of service, quality and choice of activities and above all, safety. Revenue comes from a mix of equipment hire and scheduled lessons for adults and children, by qualified instructors.
A properly set up watersports facility can provide many things to a hotel - significant income, additional food and beverage sales from guests choosing to stay on site because of the activities on offer, increased marketing opportunities, greater referrals, greater repeat bookings etc.
Developing National Schemes
The Bristol Maritime Academy provides Member National Authorities and Government Organisations with everything that they need in order to set up, develop and manage their own National Sailing Schemes.
With our diverse team and access to some of the world’s leading coaches and trainers, we deliver sail training and watersports on any level. The Bristol Maritime Academy has worked at director level for some of the world’s largest sailing academies as well as working for some of the world's leading national authorities on sailing.
We have been instrumental in the setup of national participation programmes, securing government funding and have overseen the management and delivery of National Governing Body standards in a variety of locations.
Training and grassroots sailing is the future of any watersports programme. It provides a nation with access to the water for either leisure or competition. It can develop a larger pool of sailors to sustain the racing scheme as well as create support to government participation projects. It is imperative to create a productive training scheme and standards to use the correct people and resource to start it.
We supply training advice, consultancy and on water coaching to some of the world largest emerging countries. With the right training programme in place, well trained instructors and trainers the future of the sport at any level can only grow. Introducing a low cost method of increasing participation in sport for your country.
Racing and Race coaching can be key to any scheme development. Creating a solid coaching structure helps to create a clear pathway for sailors from beginner to national and world level.
The Bristol Maritime Academy already supplies race coach training to leading competitive countries to help develop the link between leisure sailor to racer is smooth. This also ensures their squad coaches are in tune with the latest methods and practices used in race squad coaching.
Centre Training
Mövenpick Hotel & Resort Al Bida'a – Gary Morran, General Manager
“Having a professional, self contained watersports centre gives us a unique package. It is imperative we make use of all our resources to deliver the best onsite products to our guests and members. With real professionalism and unsurpassed expertise Blueprint Watersports has given us the best way forward to do this.”
ECE - Mike Clarke, Managing Director
“The brief that we gave Blueprint Watersports was clear and concise. Our aim was to have a safety policy that would be an integral part of our operations procedures and in which could be referred to in the course of our staff's working day rather than a manual that gathered dust on a bookshelf.
I am delighted to say that the final result exceeded our expectations and provided real help and assistance to our staff when needed and in turn providing a process for us to regularly review our procedures.”
RS Sailing – Riki Hooker Sales, Director
“Having a company like Blueprint using our products really gives us the best and most professional shop window we can ask for. Together using our hardware and their software we know we can deliver the best sailing package in the world. Blueprint Watersports are at the forefront of the industry and we can only benefit from that”
