Learn how to Navigate at Sea
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:
Yachtmaster Intensive Course:
- Dates: 12th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 26th, 27th February 2022
Yachtmaster Hybrid Course
As an alternative to attending our classroom or doing a remote e-learning course we also offer a third option, our Hybrid course
Course Content:
- International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
RYA Yachtmaster chartwork
- 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 and biscuits š
- Two RYA practice navigation charts
- RYA exercise book
- RYA Yachtmaster shorebased notes book
- Access to online student resource page
- Classroom use of PC with RYA electronic Training Plotter installed
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: from Ā£367.00 and includes RYA Student Course pack & training Almanac
