Meet The Team

DOUG INNES (Principal & Director)

MCA Master 200 & OOW 500 (unrestricted)
RYA Yachtmaster Examiner (power, sail, ocean)
RYA Yachtmaster Instructor (power, sail, ocean)
RYA Powerboat Trainer & PWC Trainer
RYA Senior dinghy/keelboat/multi hull Instructor
RYA Advanced and Racing Instructor
RYA Windsurf Instructor
RYA SRC Assessor, Radar and Diesel Instructor
RYA Sea Survival and ISAF Instructor
RYA, EFR & HSE First Aid Instructor
BSAC Diver Cox'n Assessor
BWS SBDA Examiner
PADI Dive Master

Doug grew up sailing dinghies, and qualified as an RYA Instructor in 1993. He has been training sailors and power boaters ever since. After working for a number of RYA Centers he decided he would establish his own business (and work for the tax man instead!). Stormforce Coaching was born in 2001. For the first few years Doug ran the company in parallel to his full time and then freelance work before making the break in 2004 and employing his own team. He delivers many of our courses, sits on various industry committees, runs Instructor courses all over Europe and examines Yachtmaster candidates for the RYA. He has been called upon to provide "Expert Witness" for negligence court cases involving small craft and has been appointed by the RYA as a Centre Inspector. He also provides consultancy to new centers and super yachts seeking to gain RYA recognition. He helms a 1720 regularly and recently won the RSYC Frostbite Series. He races a variety of other yachts and previous wins include the RORC Round Britain and Ireland Race, Cowes to Cascais Race, Myth of Malham, Cervantes Trophy and RORC Offshore Series.

RAY SCOTT (Instructor & Examiner / Southampton)

RYA Yachtmaster Examiner (power)
RYA Yachtmaster Instructor (power)
RYA Powerboat Trainer
RYA PWC Trainer
RYA Diesel Instructor
RYA Radar Instructor
RYA SRC Assessor

Following a life time of working in and around boats Ray has a vast wealth of experience. He came to us in 2004 from the MOD police (but we don't hold that against him!) where he worked both as an Engine Technician and Boat Handling Instructor. Ray and Doug co run many of the RYA Powerboat and PWC Instructor Courses. Ray and Tim share between them our Diesel and Outboard courses. Ray also skippers many of our Motor Boat Courses. In addition to working with us he examines Yachtmaster Power candidates for the RYA and is a Lifeboat Cox'n at his local station.

STELLA (Centre Manager / Southampton)

RYA Ocean Shorebased
RYA Sea Survival (not the pool session)
RYA SRC
RYA Diesel
RYA Radar
RYA/ISAF Offshore Safety

Stella meets and greets most of our Southampton students as they enter the front door. She joined the company in 2005. She has cruised the Solent, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and the Channel Islands by yacht and participated in plenty RIB and Motor Boat rides on calm days in the Solent. She spends much of her day in the office although quite often sits in on shorebased courses, even although she has done them before.

BECKY INNES (Accounts Director / Southampton)

RYA Dayskipper Shorebased
RYA Dayskipper Sail
RYA Dinghy Level 1 and 2
RYA SRC
RYA Sea Survival
PADI Advanced Open Water
HSE First Aid at Work

Becky is the most organised amongst us. Although Doug thinks he runs the company, it is Becky who really controls the finance and keeps our employer (the tax man) happy. She joined the team part time in 2005. In the spring of 2007 we persuaded her to join the full time staff and she now runs the accounts under the watchful eye of Stella. She previously worked for the RYA in both the Despatch and Racing departments. Becky is a yacht sailor and a scuba diver. She has raced in Cowes Week and extensively cruised the South Coast of England and the Channel Islands. She has dived as far afield as Egypt, Jordan, and Mexico. She likes to travel.

PENNY LE MARE (Office Manager / Southampton)

RYA Yachtmaster Shorebased
RYA Dayskipper Sail
RYA Powerboat Level 2
RYA Sea Survival
RYA Short Range Certificate

Penny handles many of your enquiries and bookings as well as keeping the rest of us organised. She has cruised in Turkey, the Whitsundays and the South Coast and dinghy sailed in Cornwall and the Lake District. In 2009 she competed in the Round the Island Race, winning the Victoria Cup aboard aboard Erica. Since graduating from Southampton University she has worked as a PA/Office Manger in London and a chalet cook in the French Alps before joining us.

FRANK SCHWEITZER (Instructor / Southampton)

RYA Yachtmaster Offshore
RYA Yachtmaster Shorebased Instructor
RYA Cruising Instructor (sail)
RYA SRC Assessor
Consultant Surgeon

Frank is a retired surgeon with over thirty year's experience of both dinghy and yacht sailing. As the former owner/skipper of a Sigma 362 he has tried his hand at JOG, RORC and "Round the Cans" Racing. More recently he has returned to Dinghy Sailing as he is now introducing his grandchildren to the sea. Frank teaches both Shorebased and Cruising courses and examines the STCW ’95 Medical First Aid and Medical Care Aboard Ship Courses. Frank has been actively instructing RYA courses since 2001 and began working with us in 2004. When he planned to retire from full time work his biggest mistake was meeting Doug!

PETER WHITE (Powerboat Instructor / Southampton)

RYA Advanced Powerboat Instructor
RYA Yachtmaster Shore based
BSAC Boat Handling Instructor

Peter has a wide experience of keelboat racing, diving and power boating. He and Doug met in the nineties while Peter was training towards becoming a Powerboat Instructor. He joined us on a freelance basis in 2005 and has taught hundreds of our powerboat courses since then. Well liked and remembered by his students Peter works at all levels from beginner to pre Instructor training.

KEITH LLOYD (First Aid Instructor / Southampton)

RYA First Aid Instructor
HSE First Aid Instructor
Paramedic
RYA Powerboat Level 2

Keith has been our lead First Aid Instructor since 2004. He spent sixteen years at sea followed by twenty three years as an Ambulance Paramedic, he knows his subject from first hand experience and is well remembered by all of his students for his entertaining and educational delivery.

ADAM O'NEILL (Instructor / Southampton)

RYA Sail Cruising Instructor
RYA Yachtmaster Offshore (sail)
RYA Advanced Powerboat Instructor
RYA PWC Instructor
RYA Keelboat Instructor
RYA Dinghy Instructor
RYA Shorebased Instructor
RYA Advanced Cert. of Comp.
RYA Dayskipper Power
RYA Safety Boat
BSAC Boat Handling Instructor
PADI Advanced Open Water

Adam joined us in 2007 on our twelve-month Internship programme. He trained at both our UK and Greek Centers. Having completed the Internship we offered him a full time position and the rest is history. He is a valued member of the team, teaches both ashore and afloat across most disciplines and is now involved with the delivery of the Internship Programme. Prior to joining us he spent some time travelling the world.

GARETH GLOVER (Race Skipper & Instructor / Southampton)

RYA Yachtmaster Instructor (power & sail)
RYA Dinghy Coach Assessor
RYA Keelboat Coach Assessor
RYA Advanced Powerboat Instructor
RYA Windsurf Intermediate Instructor
RYA Ocean Shorebased

Gareth has been in the water sports and yachting industry full time since the middle of the nineties. He has worked for Stormforce Coaching on a freelance basis since the day the business started. More recently he has been involved with skippering our Offshore Race Campaigns. He has been appointed by the RYA as a Centre Inspector and when not with us, is generally running Dinghy Instructor Courses.

SAM HOWELLS (Intern & Instructor / Southampton)

RYA Powerboat Instructor
RYA Advanced Powerboat CoC
RYA Yachtmaster Shorebased
RYA Coastal Skipper Sail
RYA Dayskipper Motor
RYA Safetyboat
RYA PWC Proficiency
RYA Sea Survival & First Aid
RYA SRC & Diesel

Sam joined our Internship Programme in September 2009; he comes from a sailing family and has been yachting all over Atlantic Europe and the Med. He races on board "Vader" our 1720 and is one of our full time Powerboat Instructors.

ROSELLE FARR (Intern & Instructor / Southampton)

RYA Dinghy Instructor
RYA Keelboat Instructor
RYA Powerboat Instructor
RYA Advanced Powerboat
RYA Yachtmaster Shorebased
RYA Coastal Skipper Sail
RYA Safetyboat
RYA PWC Proficiency
RYA Sea Survival, First Aid
RYA SRC & Diesel

Ros has been sailing since a young age and been a RYA Dinghy Instructor for several years. She regularly races aboard various J boats in the Solent. She joined the Internship Programme in September 2009 and has since increased her qualifications base and experience.

CHRIS 'BIFF' SMITH (Chief Instructor / Greece)

RYA Senior Dinghy Instructor
RYA Advanced Dinghy Instructor
RYA Keelboat Instructor
RYA Powerboat Instructor
RYA PWC Instructor

Chris has also been teaching sailing since the nineties with thirteen consecutive season's Mediterranean experience in France, Spain and Greece. He managed a number of resorts before setting up his own business in Greece and partnering with us. He and Doug began planning their collaboration back in 1996 when they first met. Chris is well remembered by his students for his fun and lively approach to life. He is well know by the locals in Porto Heli, has been working there for five years and now lives there permanently.

Amy Edminson (Beach and Accommodation Manager / Greece)

RYA Senior Windsurf Instructor
RYA Safetyboat
RYA First Aid

Amy co runs the Greek centre with Chris, generally ensuring things run smoothly, she will make sure your stay is one to be remembered. Her role is diverse as she helps with rigging etc on the beach, as well as bookings and accounts, while still finding time to teach the odd windsurfing course. She has worked five years in Porto Heli and loves the resort.