Britannia Corporate Events are a specialist provider of team sailing days. Based in Port Hamble Marina on the South Coast of England we are ideally situated on the River Hamble - just minutes from the Solent, the premier sailing area in the UK.
As well as single day team building and bespoke sailing days, Britannia also manages and runs several large, prestigious industry regattas. These regattas bring together competitors from within an industry (for example Legal or IT) and provide fantastic in-house team building, client entertainment and cross-company networking opportunities.
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"The team at Britannia have been incredibly professional and helpful. They worked with us to set up an event which met our objectives, delivered it seamlessly and it was such a success we have already booked for next year!" - Brit Insurance
Britannia Corporate Events, on the edge of the Solent
We're a friendly and enthusiastic team. We are all passionate about sailing and look forward to helping you realise the potential that a sailing event could deliver for your company.
If you'd like to know more about anything you have seen on our site, or don't even know where to begin please contact one of our team and we'd be delighted to help. We are fluent in both sailor and non-sailor speak, so let us know what you'd like to achieve and we'll recommend some options for you.
Lorna is our Event Director and recently back from maternity leave. Lorna oversees the seamless delivery of our key events, making sure our clients have a brilliant experience.
Prue coordinates our sister company, Sailing Logic, who provide both RYA courses and race training.
Quality and safety are two key factors when looking at any supplier or business partner. Britannia prides itself in providing the highest quality of service and doing so in a safe and professional manner.
Like any industry, some operators follow best practice and some don’t. We are always happy to demonstrate that we do and to provide documented evidence when required. We are also ISO9001 compliant, which means we have been audited and verified.
Within the sailing industry there are a number of small companies who do not have the insurance or legal compliance documents to actually charter their boats on a commercial basis. For peace of mind, you should ensure any marine event provider has the appropriate cover.
Britannia is fully insured as an event management company, with comprehensive public liability and employer’s liability insurance. We are happy to provide a copy of the policy on request.
Any company that offers you an event, including the organisation of racing, booking berths, providing catering etc. should have this sort of policy in place.
We have a comprehensive risk assessment document for our boats. We can also provide risk assessment information for other elements of an event, such as for the marina that your event will start and finish in. Please contact us if you would like a copy of any of these documents.
It is not just qualifications that are important. Our skippers are used to working in a corporate environment and we can provide just the right sort of skipper for your requirements, be that a race skipper who can help develop an experienced teams abilities, or a teaching skipper to train up an inexperienced or novice crew into a team for a regatta, or simply a skipper to go out cruising for the day and entertaining clients.
"Why do we take part in the Silicon Cup ? In the early planning stages around the NetEvidence offices there would be serious, upbeat talk about business networking opportunities, supporting a good cause, and raising our profile. Later, as the date creeps nearer, and we remind ourselves of just how much work it is to get 25 staff and customers down to Cowes and out on the water for two days whilst keeping everyone comprehensively fed, housed, clothed in branded kit, warm, dry (hopefully), safe and above all happy, things get chaotic and we regularly start to question the wisdom of the whole thing.
When the starting gun goes, and twenty 12-ton yachts converge on the start line and everything goes from calm to crazy in the space of three seconds and the lines go bar-tight and the sails harden up and set into a perfect curve and the boat sits up and comes alive under you and accelerates across the line – well, it’s hard to explain properly. You sort of just have to be there. But that’s the moment when we know, precisely, why we’re doing the Silicon Cup for the 5th time, and why next year we’ll want to be back. For purely business reasons, of course."