RYA Day Skipper – Practical

RYA DAY SKIPPER - 5 DAYS PRACTICAL TRAINING

A course for aspiring skippers with some yachting experience and basic navigation skills. Learn to skipper a short passage with the instructor on hand to give advice and encouragement and ensure your safety. Experience being in charge, taking credit when it all goes well and being responsible when it doesn’t.

Before this course, if you are not sure that you navigation is up to speed why not book on to one of our RYA theory courses. or one of our online navigation courses.

Highlights

RYA Competent Crew
5 Days Practical Training
Some expereance necessary
RYA Instructor
Free use of wet weather gear
Discover the Solent from a new viewpoint
Visit many of the ports around the solent
All yachts MCA coded for your safety
Morden fleet of yachts
RYA recognised training school
All morning fees included
All food eaten onboard

Sample Itinerary

You will meet your crew and instructor for the 5-day practical course at 7pm on the Sunday evening before the course starts on Monday morning. The first evening is relaxed, and a chance to get to know each other over a crew meal ashore. The next morning you will prepare to set sail and you will spend the next 5 days exploring the Solent and South Coast. The route you take and the ports you visit will be weather dependent – and part of the course will cover appropriate route planning.
You will return about 3.30pm on the final Friday.

Prerequisites

Pre-course experience 5 days, 100 miles, 4 night hours on board a sailing yacht, also Theory to the level of Day Skipper. It is recommended you attend the Day Skipper shorebased course beforehand.

Syllabus and Learning outcomes

By the end of the course you will have experienced in Preparation for sea, deck work, navigation, pilotage, meteorology, rules of the road, maintenance and repair work, engines, victualling, emergency situations, yacht handling under power, yacht handling under sail, passage making, night cruising.