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RYA Day Skipper Shorebased Course Overview

Duration: Classroom courses typically run for 5 consecutive days Alternatively they can be studied over 3 Weekends or 6 individual days. Evening work is required.

Previous experience required: None, but some practical experience is desirable.

Content: Seamanship, Basic navigation and pilotage, Safety procedures and Collision regulations.

The RYA Day Skipper theory course introduces the wide range of subjects needed to skipper a small yacht. They include:
  • The parts and equipment of a yacht.
  • Emergency and safety equipment and procedures (distress calls, flares, helicopter rescue, safety harnesses, life jackets and life rafts).
  • The basics of coastal navigation and pilotage including chart work, position fixing, plotting a course to steer and tidal heights and streams.
  • Key parts of the International Regulations for Prevention of Collision at Sea.
  • Weather forecasting including a basic understanding of the causes of the weather, pressure systems and how to interpret weather information.
During the course you will work though 12 coursework exercise leading to two exams; one on navigation and the other a general paper covering, seamanship, meteorology and the collision regulations.

On successful completion of the course you will be awarded the RYA Day Skipper Shorebased Certificate.

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