May We Introduce Our Team
Our team members are all vastly experienced , 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 Carruthers
Director, RYA Principal, Chief Instructor
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Euan has over 20 years of teaching experience and has taught in a wide variety of countries including Australia, Spain, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Tenerife, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. Since late 2011 he has been based in the UK teaching all levels of courses from Start Yachting to Advanced Powerboat to Yachtmaster Offshore. He founded his own company, You & Sea, in 2014, and this has seen much change since the early days of one powerboat. In 2025, the company pivoted to concentrate primarily on shorebased teaching, and now delivers a vast range of training courses including RYA, MCA, Highfield & SQA. Euan very much enjoys teaching and has a calm and relaxed teaching manner which readily builds confidence in his students. He runs all the regular instructor training courses in Rhu, and travels often to Europe and beyond to assist other training centres. He also offers consultancy advice
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MCA Master 200/OOW 500gt (Limited)
IMO Lead Auditor
MCA IMO Train the Trainer Instructor
MCA Navigation & Radar Instructor
RYA Advanced Powerboat Instructor Trainer
RYA Yachtmaster Motor Examiner
RYA Advanced Powerboat Examiner
RYA Yachtmaster Instructor (Power)
RYA Navigation Instructor Trainer
RYA Cruising Instructor Trainer
RYA Radar Instructor Trainer
RYA Diesel Engine Instructor
RYA Sea Survival Instructor
RYA SRC Assessor Trainer
SQA Assessor & Internal Verifier
Max Carruthers
Director/Tech & Maintenance Guru
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Max is a Director of You & Sea and provides strategic and financial advice. He oversees the maintenance of boats and premises, and is hands-on more often than not! He has been involved with boats and the sea since he was a teenager, starting with sailing dinghies and progressing to yachts and motor boats
Sam Stewart
Busines Support Administrator
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Sam is our newly appointed Business Support Administrator. She may well be your first point of contact. Details and photo coming shortly.
Colin Faulds
RYA Instructor/Skipper
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Colin grew up on the water spending his early years fishing, power boating and sailing at every opportunity. His love of the sea has led to him spending his working life on the water. Initially in the Merchant Navy where he had the opportunity to travel extensively whilst learning the art of navigation and seamanship, followed by over 32 years of Marine Policing with the Ministry of Defence Police.
He has been instructing a wide range of RYA courses since 2005, and has experience as both Centre Principal and Chief Instructor in addition to being an appointed RYA Yachtmaster Examiner. Colin has a calm and relaxed teaching style and aims to ensure students gain both confidence and experience whilst enjoying their time onboard or in the classroom
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RYA Yachtmaster Examiner (Motor)
RYA Yachtmaster Instructor (Motor)
RYA Advanced Powerboat Instructor
RYA Sea Survival Instructor
RYA Navigation Instructor
RYA Radar Instructor
RYA SRC Instructor
Rob Mutlow
RYA Instructor/Skipper
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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 in 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. He is also a very experienced dinghy instructor and windsurfing instructor
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RYA Yachtmaster Instructor (Sail & Power)
RYA Yachtmaster Examiner (Sail & Power)
RYA Cruising Instructor Trainer (Motor)
RYA Cruising Instructor Trainer (Sail)
RYA Advanced Powerboat Instructor
RYA Navigation Instructor
RYA Radar Instructor
RYA VHF Assessor
Duke of Edinburgh Assessor (Bronze, Silver & Gold)
Thom Bateman
Instructor/Skipper
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Sailing started in a GP 14 dinghy and quickly moved to various lasers at Strathclyde Park. Royal Gourock YC followed and into racing Pipers. The cruising bug started on the Clyde and the West of Scotland. A weekend trip to Cherbourg was followed by a trip across Biscay, then Iceland. Powerboats were always about but then became more interesting and well .. motorboats had to follow! "The grand thing about boating in all its forms is that you never stop learning."
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RYA Yachtmaster Ocean (Motor & Sail)
RYA Cruising Instructor (Motor & Sail)
RYA Advanced Powerboat Instructor
RYA Diesel Engine Instructor
RYA Navigation Instructor
RYA SRC Radio Assessor
RYA Radar Instructor
Scott Campbell
MCA Instructor
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Scott Campbell is a Marine Warranty Surveyor with an Unlimited Chief Mate qualification, Master 500GT qualification, and a full Dynamic Positioning Officer's qualification. Scott began his career at sea in Aberdeen University's Royal Naval Unit in 2003, serving on HMS Archer while studying for his BSc in Marine Resource Management. Scott then worked as an assistant technician performing AIS and Radar surveys for marine risk analysis firm Anatec, after graduation. He then went on to complete a cadetship in the Merchant Navy, serving from cadet up to second officer, with Regent Seven Seas Cruises. After a short time doing supply and stand-by work in the Middle East, Scott then worked on supply vessels and geotechnical drilling for Gulfmark Offshore in the Northern North Sea, and Eastern Mediterranean. He served with Gulfmark for four years, where he rose to chief mate and SDPO. He then worked as a Navigation Specialist for the UKHO for 18 months, before becoming a Technical Advisor for Witherby Publishing Group Ltd. Scott spent 5 years with Witherbys, rising to Head of Navigation Publications after shadowing and working with marine pilots in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Denmark, the Panama Canal, and the English Channel. After gaining his Master 500GT qualification Scott spent 2 years as Master on HSC-OSC CTVs with ECDIS, and three trips as Master on a DP2 construction vessel fitted with ECDIS, before joining You and Sea Ltd.
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MCA Chief Mate Unlimited
MCA Master 500gt
MCA ECDIS Instructor
IMO Train the Trainer
Matt French
MCA Instructor
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Matt’s maritime journey began in 2010 when he joined the Royal Navy as a Warfare Officer. He served in the RN for 12 years, working his way up from Office of the Watch all the way to Commanding Officer. He left the RN in 2022 to become a Kings Harbour Master Pilot at HM Naval Base Clyde, a role which he really enjoys and which was his dream from starting his career at sea. Matt has worked as an instructor in the Royal Navy teaching navigation, seamanship and ship handling. More recently he has started working as a Civilian instructor teaching both ECDIS and Stability courses. In his spare time Matt enjoys watching rugby, going exploring with his family and going sailing
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MCA Master Unlimited Royal Navy
MCA IMO Train the Trainer
RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Commercial (Motor)
Cruising Instructor, motor
Bob O’Donnell
RYA Instructor/Skipper
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RYA Advanced Powerboat Instructor
RYA Advanced Cert of Competence
David Mills
MCA Medical Instructor
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RYA Advanced Powerboat Instructor
RYA Advanced Cert of Competence
John Williams
MCA Instructor / Technical Advisor / Course Developer
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John’s first work was marina security in 1996, moving to fishing vessels after that and then into the Merchant Navy, where he worked from a deckhand to Chief Mate. He’s also worked as Marine Superintendent and Senior Commercial Operator, before coming to education as a university lecturer and short course trainer.
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MCA Chief Mate Unlimited
L3 Award Education & Teaching
ISO 9001, 45001 Lead Auditor
SQA Auditor & Internal Quality Assurance Verifier.
ISM Lead Auditor
DNV Incident Investigator