Our Team
Rónán Ó Siochrú (Principal)
Rónán Ó Siochrú is the principal at Irish Offshore Sailing. He started his sailing at the age of twelve in Kinsale, Co. Cork. With his yachtmaster offshore certificate at the age of 18 he spent two summers instructing and racing yachts in the U.S. In 2004, at the age of 21 he attempted to sail from Ireland to Iceland singlehanded in a 21 foot yacht to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society, and prepare himself for the mini transat singlehanded transatlantic yacht race. The attempt, while unsuccessful provided a wealth of offshore singlehanded sailing experience and heavy weather sailing.
Rónán has accumulated a wealth of knowledge over the past 16 years. He has been an RYA Yachtmaster Instructor for over 7 years and is also an RYA Yachtmaster Examiner, SRC Assesor, ISAF Offshore Safety Instructor and RYA First Aid Instructor. He has skippered yachts in numerous offshore yacht races and has trained professional skippers who have gone on to work in the sailing industry all over the world. He holds a masters degree in Oceanography and has an infectious enthusiasm for sailing and for the sea. The son of a native Irish speaker and having spent two years living in France, Rónán has near perfect levels of French and Irish. Armed with limitless patience and an energetic approach to learning, he will unlock your true sailing potential but above all will ensure your passage with Irish Offshore Sailing is fun, safe and exciting.
Peter Beamish (Yachtmaster Instructor)
Peter Beamish from Dublin has been working with Irish Offshore Sailing since its establishment in March 2011. Peter has over 40 years of sailing experience and has owned and raced numerous yachts very competitively at club level throughout his sailing career both here in Ireland and in the UK.
Peter has a wealth of knowledge from his extensive racing career and a very relaxed easy going style to his instruction which puts the most wary beginners completely at ease. Peter can be described only as a true gentleman!
Tim Wood (RYA Yachtmaster Instructor)
Tim from England, is a highly experienced instructor. He has many years of experience teaching on a variety of yachts and has in particular a lot of experience with milebuilding passages and longer cruises. He has a very relaxed style allowing students to skipper under his ever careful eye but to gain confidence as they do so. He has no shortage of yarns to tell, which help galvanise the learning principles in his wealth of experience as a professional yachtsman.
