RYA Day Skipper 

 

The 5 day RYA Day Skipper practical sailing course is for aspiring skippers who have some yachting experience, and who are proficient on basic navigation and sailing. This course will teach you new sailing skills, practical navigation and taking control over the yacht and your crew during daytime passages.

 

 

 

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Course content

Learn to skipper a short passage with the instructor on hand to give advice and teach you new techniques. Experience being in charge, managing your crew and your yacht, while sailing and executing teamwork manoeuvres during day-time.

This course is available as 5 consecutive days and as course divided over 2 weekends of 2 and 3 days.

Amongst other you will learn

  • Preparing a yacht for sea, including checks
  • Navigation, position fixing, use of plotter and chart work
  • Deck work, such as anchoring
  • Pilotage for entering or leaving harbours
  • Meteorology and practical weather forecasting
  • Rules of the road
  • Maintenance and repair work
  • Diesel engine, including engine checks and fault finding
  • Victualling
  • Emergency procedures, including the MOB recovery drill
  • Yacht handling under power and under sail
  • Passage planning and making
  • Night cruising

 

How to prepare yourself for this course

In order to get the most out of your course, we offer you the possibility to do our online pre-course knowledge quiz. The quiz helps you to test your knowledge and to assess whether you need more preparation in some areas. 

 

Ability after the course

At the end of the course you should achieve a level of seamanship and boat handling up to the standard required to skipper a small cruising yacht safely by day in familiar tidal and non-tidal waters under normal conditions.

 

What's included

  • Tuition by one of our RYA instructors
  • Accommodation on board in your own cabin (no sharing)
  • C-MASTERS Pre-course knowledge quiz
  • All meals and drink on board 
  • All mooring and fuel fees
  • Free parking at our premises 
  • RYA Day Skipper personalised Certificate of Competence

 

 

 

 

 

 

Details of this course

Duration:     The course is available as 5 consecutive days, or during 2 weekends of 2 and 3 days. 

 

Location from where this course will be delivered:

  • Kats (Zeeland, the Netherlands)
  • Nieuwpoort (Belgium) 

 

Previous experience:   You should already know how to sail and have logged;

  • 5 days aboard a yacht
  • 100 nautical miles
  • 4 night hours

 

Assumed knowledge: Your knowledge of IRPCS, navigation and meteorology must be at the standard of the RYA Day Skipper shorebased theory course or equivalent course.

 

Language: This course is provided in English.

 

Number of students:   3

 

Cost: 1470 euro for course over 5 consecutive days

            cost of course divided over 2 weekend on request

 

 

 

Next steps

After successfully completing this course, we recommend extending your knowledge with some of our RYA specialist shorebased courses, in particular the RYA Radar, RYA Diesel Engine and the Short Range Certificate VHF course, ideally combined with practical training as part of our C-MASTERCLASSES.

The Day Skipper Certificate of Competence can be commercially endorsed for anyone with ambition to find work as a professional crew member.

After building up experience during daytime passage, it will be time to learn making longer passages both during day-time and night-time, by joining our RYA Coastal Skipper course.

 

Supporting courses

We recommend attending the RYA Day Skipper shorebased theory course before following the Day Skipper practical course.

 

 

Register for joining this course

 

Course dates at our training centre in Zeeland:

  • 5 consecutive days course on 1 to 5 April - FULLY BOOKED
  • 5 consecutive days course on 8 to 12 April - FULLY BOOKED
  • Course divided over 2 weekend sessions on 13-14 April and 3-5 May - FULLY BOOKED
  • 5 consecutive days course on 17 to 21 April - FULLY BOOKED
  • 5 consecutive days course on 29 April to 3 May
  • 5 consecutive days course on 6 to 10 May
  • Course divided over 2 weekend sessions on 11-12 May and 18-20 May - FULLY BOOKED
  • 5 consecutive days course on 21 to 25 May
  • Course divided over 2 weekend sessions on 31 May - 2 June and 8-9 June
  • 5 consecutive days course on 3 to 7 June - ONE LAST PLACE AVAILABLE
  • 5 consecutive days course on 10 to 14 June
  • 5 consecutive days course on 15 to 19 June
  • Course divided over 2 weekend sessions on 15-16 June and 21-23 June - FULLY BOOKED
  • 5 consecutive days course on 24 to 28 June
  • 5 consecutive days course on 15 to 19 July- FULLY BOOKED
  • 5 consecutive days course on 22 to 26 July - ONE LAST PLACE AVAILABLE
  • Course divided over 2 weekend sessions on 27-28 July and 2-4 August

     

    Course dates at our training centre in Nieuwpoort:

    • 5 consecutive days course on 27 to 31 May
    • Course divided over 2 weekend sessions on 29-30 June and 5-7 July

     

     


        

    My overall satisfaction is 10/10

     

    The instructor is superb. The boat is great. This course increased my interest in navigation and in sailing. Overall, I trully recommend this training centre.

    I have completed RYA Dayskipper course here. I am really satisfied and plan to continue my sailing path with this school.

      

    -- Sergey --

       


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