Outdoor Training Limited
Practical Courses
On Board – Yachting run the following courses on our
new Beneteau 393. Your Instructor will be an experienced Yachtmaster
Instructor and you will have a ratio of only 3 or 4 students to 1
Instructor. You will have your own cabin (Unless you are a couple of
course) and the price includes all your food on board, berthing, diesel
and wine or beer with your evening meals.
The boat is spacious and comfortable, has hot and cold running water and
central heating.
5 Day RYA Practical Courses are running:
- 30th April to 5th May 2006
- 28th May to 5th June 2006
- 27th August to 1st September 2006
- 1st October to 6th October 2006
All Inclusive Price: £625 per person
Competent Crew
The RYA Competent Crew Course is an Introduction to Yachting. It is designed
for the complete beginner to spend 5 days at sea on a Yacht and learn all
about living aboard and crewing a Yacht.
By the end of the week you can expect to be familiar with the working and
safety of a Yacht at sea as well as confident to carry out any task required
of you by your skipper.
This course is aimed at either the complete beginner to Yachting and
Sailing, as well as those who are familiar with boats, but may not have
spent any time on larger Yachts.
At the end of the week you will have attained the Competent Crew Practical
Certificate. This tells other Yacht Skippers that you will be a useful and
practical member of his or her team.
Day Skipper
The RYA Day Skipper Course is designed to teach experienced Yacht crew all
the skills required to take a boat to sea as the
Skipper
for the first time. Over the 5 days you will learn all the skills required
to skipper the boat and plan and execute short coastal passages by day.
One of our experienced Yachtmaster Instructors will teach you the skills and
supervise you at sea while putting it all into practice. You will learn how
to moor the boat in marinas or up to mooring buoys, under sail and power,
dropping anchor, tidal calculations, weather, emergency situations, safety
at sea, traditional navigation, electronic navigation, Fixing, plotting,
crew management etc etc.
The successful completion of the 5 days will give you the Day Skipper
Practical Certificate which shows that you are competent to conduct short
Passages by day in local waters.
The course is designed for Yacht crew who would like to become the skipper
and start to charter boats or buy their own, as well as good Dinghy sailors
that would like to try their hand at Yachting.
Coastal Skipper
The RYA Coastal Skipper Certificate sits at the top of the RYA Practical
Training programme. Successful award of the Coastal Skipper Certificate
shows skills and ability to competently conduct any Coastal Passage by day
or night. If you already regularly Skipper yours or chartered yachts and
have a good navigational ability, then this is the course for you.
You will be set many challenges through the week to test and improve your
knowledge and ability.
Over the 5 days your Instructor will gentle refine your skills and abilities
and get you to confidently carry out any mooring, berthing, emergency or
navigational tasks in a calm and professional manor.
This course is for the more experienced Yachtsman and we would expect you to
have the Yachtmaster Theory Skill level as well as having skippered Yachts
for several 60 mile plus passages.
For more information on any of the above please email us on
adrian@trainingoutdoors.co.uk