Power Cruise School Instructors

Louise Reardon is a top-notch Fast Track to Power Cruising® instructor. She is one of a group of terrific instructors on our British Virgin Islands base faculty.

Louise grew up in the Lake District of Inverness, Scotland. She taught sailing at the Gordonstoun International Summer School on the North and West Coasts of Scotland.

In 1994, Louise went to London University to study Asian and African geography teaching sailing during the summers at her old school in Scotland. In 1996, she took a year off and went to Malaysia, working for Outward Bound on pull boats.

After graduating university in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts, she went to the United Kingdom Sailing Academy on the Isle of Wight to gain the RYA Yachtmaster Ocean with Commercial Endorsement certificate. At that point she already had 9,000 miles under her boat shoes and knew that sailing and boating would be her career.

Since then she has worked on a variety of boats, which include sailing yachts from 35’ to 112’ and a 355’ motor yacht. She has operated boats in Northern Europe, Middle and Western Mediterranean, Newfoundland, East and West Coast United States, Western Mexico, Caribbean, Windward and Leeward Islands, and participated in six trans-Atlantic crossings.

Louise is fluent in French and Spanish and added further to her qualifications achieving the MCA/STCW Master 3000 Ton License, restricted to yachts. With over 73,000 miles logged, 32 year old Louise joined Colgate Schools as a multi-level instructor. She holds US SAILING Keelboat, Cruising, Coastal Navigation and US POWERBOAT Instructor certification as well as several RYA Yachtmaster designations.
 

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