Our team members have over forty years of teaching experience between them, so you can be confident you’re in good hands. Working with individual customers and commercial organisations, our number one priority is meeting – and exceeding – customer needs. We are committed to the highest level of customer service from the initial point of contact to completion of your time with us.
Euan
Nathalie
Max
Aneesh
Andy
Thom
Colin
Rob
Paul
Euan Carruthers
Director / RYA Principal
Chief Instructor
Euan has over 18 years of teaching experience and has taught in a wide variety of countries including Australia, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Tenerife and Nigeria. Since late 2011 he has been back in the UK teaching all levels of RYA training from Start Yachting to Advanced Powerboat to Yachtmaster Offshore. When he is not out teaching on the water, he can be found teaching shorebased navigation and radio courses to all levels of students from those just starting to those building up to their RYA Yachtmaster Exam. Euan has a calm and relaxed teaching manner which readily builds confidence in his students. Euan also runs all the instructor training, delivering regular training at our base in Rhu.
His current qualifications include:
Nathalie Carruthers
Operations Director
Nathalie is a Director of You & Sea and is responsible for the running of our office, liaising with the staff as to the courses they are teaching, course bookings and paperwork, and marketing. She has a background in watersports instructing having worked as a Windsurf Instructor in Greece for Neilson and has also worked for Axa Insurance where her administrative, creative and media handling skills were put to the test running a contact centre operations team.
Max Carruthers
Director and Boat Maintenance Guru
Max is a Director of You & Sea and provides strategic and financial advice. He is also the Chairman of several financial services companies. He oversees the maintenance of all the boats and is hands on more often than not! Max is also heavily involved in You & Sea’s film work, particularly organising the technical aspects of marine filming. Max has been involved with boats and the sea since he was a teenager, starting with sailing dinghies and progressing to yachts and motor boats.
Aneesh Murray
Trainee Skipper / Crew
Aneesh joins the team as Trainee Skipper/Instructor and will work alongside our regular instructors/skippers as crew when on our Boat Trips. She has spent the last 7 years traveling extensively and working as a Scuba Diving Instructor in countries such as Malaysia, Australia, Tonga, and New Zealand. When not teaching diving, she has crewed on various size vessels ensuring guests are treated to first-class service.
Towards the latter part of this year, she will take over as our lead boat trip skipper.
Andy Greer
Motor Instructor / Skipper
Andy has been involved with the water as far back as he can recall. He started his working career in the commercial sector managing and skippering crew transfer vessels, safety boats and line handlers. More recently, after a change of scenery; he is now works for the MOD Police Marine Unit at Faslane/Coulport.
His current qualifications include:
Thom Bateman
Instructor / Skipper
Colin Faulds
Motor Instructor / Skipper
Rob Mutlow
RYA Instructor / Skipper
Rob has been instructing and coaching for the last 32 years in many countries including Australia, Europe and the UK. During that time he has held positions of Centre Principal and Chief Instructor of a number of centres. He specialises in Yachtmaster preparation theoretical and practical and was appointed as an RYA Examiner in 2008 and Cruising Instructor trainer in 2017.
As a Cruising Instructor Trainer, Rob works with potential instructors and passes on his wealth of knowledge in the watersports industry in both Motor Cruising and Yachting.
Robert is also a very experienced dinghy instructor and windsurfing instructor.
Paul Mills
Sail & Powerboat Instructor
Paul first started sailing at 13, and enjoyed both dinghies, kayak and windsurfing instructing. During College and beyond Paul had 4 years working for Sunsail, chiefly in the Solent and Greece. This was followed by setting up his own sailing school in Menorca and then a spot of traditional boat sailing with the ICC .His professional career involved teaching and training – and running a therapeutic foster care agency. Paul has sailed about 40,000 miles between Portugal and Scotland, and loves exploring beautiful coastlines, often working with groups of teenagers on his own 40′ charter boat. He currently teaches Maritime Studies, part time, at Argyll College – between spells at other training centres. In his free time Paul loves spending time with his boys in the outdoors, and undertaking off road expeditions to remote corners of the globe.