Welcome
TS REBEL is a coastal training station based on the Essex coast. It provides offshore, power boat, keel boat and yacht racing training for young people.
It is a Recognised Training Centre for the Royal Yachting Association and an Independent Operating Authority for The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. It is also a registered charity.
Over the course of an annual training season it provides over 350 course places for young trainees. In addition to practical training it also offers shore based courses for navigation, sea survival and VHF radio.
The training staff comprises 24 volunteer adult instructors, all of whom hold appropriate RYA qualifications for their various roles and all of whom are either bona fide uniformed or civilian adults with the Sea Cadet Corps. It expects its young students to, between them, achieve 230 or more qualifications per year.
The school subscribes to the military ethos of the cadet forces movement with the associated expectations of self-discipline and personal pride, an insistence on acceptance of responsibility, and the application of defined boundaries.
TS REBEL operates under the Training Afloat Regulations issued by the Ministry of Defence. It has fully implemented the Child Protection Policy of the Sea Cadet Corps. Its offshore training vessels comply with the Code of Practice for Small Commercial Vessels. Its racing yachts comply with RORC 4 (Special) Regulations. Its power boats comply with the guidelines and requirements of the Royal Yachting Association.
For trainees demonstrating exceptional aptitude the option to join the Yachtmaster Fastrack programme is offered. This is designed to equip suitable students to competently undergo the RYA/MCA Yachtmaster practical exam by the age of 19. In 1996 one of our students became the youngest Yachtmaster in the World.
The school works with capital assets valued at circa £400K. It has an annual operating budget of circa £56K. This is funded by contributions from the Marine Society and Sea Cadets, the Worshipful Company of Fuellers, the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, The Rebel Trust (primarily the Moulton family), and its own fund raising initiatives.
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