Detailed below are sailing schools that provide courses on the South Coast (typically the Solent, Southampton, Portsmouth, Isle of Wight and Poole areas) adhering to the RYA Syllabus. For shorebased courses look at the shorebased course listing. All of these locations on the UK south coast are easily accessible by public transport from London.

Both the Start Yachting and Competent Crew syllabus takes no account of tides, hence the courses are the same the world over. This region is classed as a tidal area.