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Nigel Parry is an accomplished offshore sailor, skipper and instructor with over 100,000nm in his log book, including several Atlantic and Pacific crossings. His love for the sport started when he was a child; his father saw a dinghy for sale on the side of the road and brought it home for the family to learn how to sail.

Currently residing in Hanover, Germany, but hailing from Cheshire in the United Kingdom, he started sailing professionally in 1994. Nigel has worked all over the world, spending time in the Mediterranean as a flotilla skipper, working for RYA sailing schools in the Canary Islands, as well as in schools across the UK and he also worked for a time as an instructor delivering ASA coastal and offshore cruising schemes in California. He ran a sailing school in Germany for many years, and also worked in a team of civilian adventurous training instructors in Kiel, training British military personnel in offshore sailing and powerboating.

His experience also includes cruising, racing and maintaining boats of over 60 feet in length and he has been a regular member of the training department for the Clipper Round the World Race since 2013. In 2022 he skippered the Clipper 70 ‘Dare To Lead’ from Subic Bay in the Philippines to the finish in London.

Sailing is Nigel’s life, when not teaching others, he can be found working and sailing on his 35 footclassic yacht.