The RYA Yachtmaster shore-based course is ideal for skippers and crew with more experience who want to increase their navigation and seamanship knowledge. The course aims to give you the planning, preparation and navigational skills required to safely skipper a vessel at sea by day and night. This course is also the theory standard required for those planning on doing the RYA Coastal Skipper practical course or taking the RYA Yachtmaster Coastal or Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate of Competence examinations.
Course Dates:
We offer a number of options in delivering this course
- Winter evening classes
- Six day consecutive intensive course
- Six day intensive but with breaks between sessions,
Yachtmaster Intensive course runover two three day sessions
12th, 13th, 14th, 19th, 20th & 21st April 2024
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Course Content:
- International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
- Chartwork – Paper charts and electronic
- Tides, including secondary port calculations & computation of rates
- Course to Steer, taking into account leeway, variation & deviation
- Running fix
- Estimated Position, taking into account leeway, variation & deviation
- How to get the best out of GNSS
- Aids to Navigation
- Passage Planning
- Pilotage techniques
- Meteorology
Our package includes:
- Classroom + tea & coffee
- Two RYA practice navigation charts
- RYA exercise book
- RYA Yachtmaster shorebased notes book
- Access to online student resource page
- Venue: Willow Farm, Waltham Lane, Harby, Leicestershire, LE14 4DB
- Prior knowledge: Equivalent to Day Skipper Shorebased course
- Course duration: 40 hours and 3 assessment papers
- Award: RYA MCA Coastal Yachtmaster Offshore Shorebased certificate
- Cost: £425.00 and includes RYA Student Course pack & training Almanac
