Hong Kong Yachting can customize a great day out for your work team where you will have to communicate and work with each other to achieve a common goal. Tasks will include hoisting and lowering sail, trimming sails, steering a set course and maneuvering the yacht and navigating through Hong Kong’s busy waterways.
 
This is the ultimate Hong Kong experience incorporating team building, active participation, healthy competition, excitement and fun. A day spent sailing in and around Hong Kong is an unforgettable experience.  We encourage the group to be actively involved in sailing the yacht - it's a great opportunity to learn the fundamentals of performance sailing.

Team building charters can include lunch on one of Hong Kong’s outlying islands and prices start at HKD$1,500 per person.

 
A Typical Team Building Program
 
Location: Stanley - Po Toi Island - Stanley
Time Frame: half day: 4 hours   or   full day: 6 hours
 
1) Team Development - Learn how to Sail & Communicate: Hoist the sail / Tack / Safety / Commands / Positions and Roles
2) Problem Solving - Decision Making: Man over board rescue problem (no-one physically enters the water)
3) Lunch at Po Toi Island and team building quiz
4) Team Performance - The goal is to put the entire team in position to sail back to Stanley on their own
5) Team Debrief when they are almost back

 
Objectives

  

Learn Basics of Sailing	Be Safe
• Steering	• Take responsibility for your actions
• Trimming sails relative to the wind	• Understand the risks
• Basic boat handling (Tacking, Gybing, Setting Sails)	• Keep low and move purposefully
• Watch out for lines and blocks and the boom

Have fun! Why do we go sailing. It seems a lot of trouble to go somewhere pretty slowly!

Because:

• It is very clever to make a 13 tonne yacht move efficiently with the wind.
• It takes us into the wilderness within only a few miles of Hong Kong.
• We have to respond to the prevailing conditions and are not in control of the environment
• It is physically and mentally demanding
• The sea, like the bush, puts life into perspective – the busy city will still be going full steam when we get home
• At this time, our whole world is the few people on this boat

 

Learning Outcomes:

• Acquire some sailing skills.
• Think about the safety of the boat and crew but enjoy something unusual.
• Take responsibility for your actions
• Push yourself into doing something unusual and strenuous.
• Work with others to achieve something that you have had no (or little) experience in.
• Meet and interact with the crew and interesting new people who enjoy yachting.