A three-day RYA Start Yachting course costs $620 £375 ppp, while a five-day RYA competent crew course costs $920 £613 ppp, including live-aboard facilities and two meals per day.
Young people will spend three weeks volunteering with children, then doing a yachting course or a surfing, kite-surfing and wakeboarding option, then choose between diving and community work before a final leg in a game camp.
Week one of the two-week package is spent on shore at the Athos Hotel in Nidri, so you can focus on a four-day RYA Introduction to Yachting course.
British officials would not identify the crew members or provide any other information about the yacht's course.
Thankfully, there are plenty of experts on hand too – our boat pushers, plus loads of brilliant historians, academics, armoury experts etc. Plus Cap'n Dan in his yacht, of course.
Not a wallowing land yacht, of course, but an exceedingly smooth European sedan.
"The yacht, of course, is the most visible thing," says Theodora Bird Bear, a 63-year-old resident of Mandaree, an impoverished town of 600 on the reservation.
Unlike the owners, however, he has never driven a Mercedes or owned a 50-foot yacht (named, of course, Archie).
A honey-glowing face and a body that is buff and bronzed had come to conjure up associations of beauty, leisure and upper-class privilege: of exotic private beaches, robust games of tennis, long afternoons aboard a yacht and, of course, the healthy-looking afterglow of exercise or sex.
The aviatrixes hovered above the yacht, following its course, then criss-crossed the river, bank to bank.
As I toured it, I became more and more outraged with each extravagance: the golf course, yacht basin, party boat, hunting grounds, mansions, landscaping, car museums, equestrian grounds and lined ponds stocked with trout and fountains.
