Are you thinking of becoming a skipper or planning a flotilla holiday? This course is the perfect starting point, offering essential knowledge for making informed decisions on the water.
If you're considering the Day Skipper Practical Course, this theory course is the ideal complement. Spread across five Sunday sessions, it allows plenty of time during the week to absorb and reflect on the material covered.
What the Course Covers:
- Seamanship
- Coastal navigation and pilotage
- Chartwork and electronic charts
- Position fixing and plotting a course to steer
- Weather forecasting and meteorology
- Tides and tidal streams
- Collision regulations
We believe strongly in the value of classroom learning. Joining fellow students and an experienced RYA Yachtmaster instructor in person will offer deeper insights and a more engaging experience than online alternatives. Your instructor, highly qualified and knowledgeable, will answer all your questions and use a range of teaching methods to bring the material to life.
Course Dates:
- October 13, 20, 27 2024
- November 3, 10 2024
Times:
09:00 am to 5:00 pm
A comprehensive introduction to chartwork navigation meteorology and the basics of seamanship. Invaluable for learning how to make decisions as a new skipper. Thinking about a flotilla holiday? This is were to start... .
If you're thinking about taking the Day Skipper practical course, this is the theory course to go along with it. Laid out over six Sunday sessions to give you time during the week to reflect on the information provided.
What the course covers
Seamanship, coastal navigation and pilotage, chartwork, electronic charts, position fixing, plotting a course to steer, weather forecasting and meteorology, tides, collision regulations.
We strongly believe time in the classroom with other students and our RYA Yachtmaster instructor will give you the strongest result. A highly experienced and qualified instructor will explain many areas of the course more clearly than online courses. Your instructor can answer all our questions who uses a variety of learning styles that will bring the subject matter to life.
The dates for the 6 sessions are:
Oct 29th 2023, Nov 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th and Dec 3rd.
Times are 10am to 5.00pm except the 19th Nov which starts at 11.00am.