You will need to start a sailing course appropriate to your current level of experience, you do not have to start at the beginning.
Pre-course experience: None
Assumed knowledge: None
Course content: The yacht, ropework, underway, rules of the road, man overboard recovery, clothing and equipment, emergency equipment and precaution, meteorology
Ability after the course: Basic knowledge of yachting
Min duration: 2 Days
Minimum age: None
The RYA Start Yachting course is a two-day fun introductory course to sailing for complete beginners.
Pre-course experience: None
Assumed knowledge: None
Course content: Knowledge of sea terms and parts of a boat, her rigging and sails, sail handling, ropework, fire precautions and fighting, personal safety equipment, man overboard, emergency equipment, meteorology, seasickness, helmsmanship, general duties, manners and customs, rules of the road, dinghies
Ability after the course: Able to steer, handle sails, keep a lookout, row a dinghy, and assist in all the day to day routines.
Min duration: 5 Days
Minimum age: None
The RYA Competent Crew is a fun course for beginners and those who would like to become active crew members rather than just passengers. Virtually all the course is hands on. You are the crew – without you the sails won’t go up and the boat won’t be steered!
Pre-course experience: 5 days,100 miles,4 night hours onboard a sailing yacht.
Assumed knowledge: Theory to the level of Day Skipper. It is highly recommended that you attend a Day Skipper Theory course.
Course content: 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.
Ability after the course: Able to skipper a small yacht in familiar waters by day
Min duration: 5 Days
Minimum age: 16
Pre-course experience: a minimum of 15 days seatime, 2 days as skipper, 300 miles, 8 night hours
Assumed knowledge: Boat handling to the standard of Day Skipper and navigation shorebased Coastal Skipper
Course content: Passage planning, preparation for sea, pilotage, passage making and ability as skipper, yacht handling under power and sail, adverse weather conditions, emergency situations
Ability after the course: Able to skipper a yacht on coastal passages by day and night
Min duration: 5 Days
Minimum age: 17
The RYA Coastal Skipper practical course is the steppingstone between Day Skipper and the full RYA/MCA Yachtmaster Coastal Certificate of Competence.
Students should have theory knowledge to the level of RYA Coastal Yachtmaster and preferably hold a RYA Day Skipper Practical Course completion certificate. The course is aimed at enhancing existing skippering skills so it is important you are a competent sailor.
Holders of the RYA Yachtmaster Coastal or Yachtmaster
Offshore Certificate of Competence in a particular discipline (sail or power)
are eligible for a “discount” in terms of the mileage and sea time that is
required for the exam in the other discipline.
The exam that will be undertaken by the
candidate is a full exam, however the fact that the candidate already holds an
RYA Yachtmaster Certificate of Competence in one discipline, means that we can
accept a reduced amount of mileage and sea time in the discipline for which
they will now be examined.
The sea time shown below must be in the
discipline in which you are to be examined (sail or power). All qualifying sea
time must be within 10 years prior to the exam.
Yachtmaster
Coastal
Yachtmaster
Offshore
It is essential that candidates for any
exam be fully conversant with the entire syllabus relating to the relevant type
of vessel (sail or motor) and that they have adequate experience to be
confident in the capacity of skipper of that type of craft.
Note: As of 1st July 2021
shortened conversion exams from sail to power and power to sail are
no longer available.
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