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About our Coastal Skipper Courses
RYA Coastal Skipper is an advanced course covering Seamanship and Navigation. A Coastal Skipper should have the skills and knowledge needed to be in charge of a small yacht at Sea, by day or night, and to be able to use a range of navigation skills and to know the collision regulations.
Candidates should have completed the RYA Day Skipper Shorebased and Practical courses.
Coastal Skipper is a RYA course of two parts; first you should do the "Shorebased" part, and follow this with the Practical course. Upon completion of both, if you meet the other qualifying requirements, you may take the RYA Yachtmaster Coastal or Yachtmaster Offshore assessment examination.
Coastal Skipper Shorebased Course Before the end of March, 2012 - run over six days.
Six Saturdays or six Sundays or a mixture of each, in Leicestershire. Some flexibility about dates, on your part, would be helpful.
The Coastal Skipper and Yachtmaster Offshore Shorebased course is normally done in a classroom, but equally it could be in your kitchen! This is a ‘theory’ course with a minimum of 40 hours teaching time and examinations in Chartwork, Meteorology and the Collision Regulations.
There are a series of exercises to be completed as ‘course work’. You will need to find an additional hour (and maybe as much as 4 hours) for each exercise, depending on your experience.
Where we run this course will depend upon numbers of people enrolling. If we need to rent space, as a classroom, this is most likely to be in the Blaby or Countesthorpe area (at no extra cost to you).
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For the sum of £360, you get the full teaching time, your coursework back, marked with feedback, e-mail support, the practice charts, the RYA course book, tea or coffee with biscuits, the examinations and when successful, the course certificate.
We can supply the "tools" you need for this course if you wish: a Bretton or Portland Plotter or Parallel rules, a pair of dividers, a 2B pencil and an eraser. You will need to provide an A4 ring folder for your notes, note paper, a pen, a calculator a pencil sharpener and your lunch on each day! Some previous practical experience on board a yacht, at Sea, would be preferred, though is not essential.
To enrol for this course or to find out more information contact us by clicking here.
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Buy the RYA Navigation Handbook at the RYA Shop to help you with your Course! |
The Coastal Skipper Practical Course involves spending a minimum of 5 days on a yacht, with an instructor. You do lots of advanced yacht handling and put into practice all of the navigation, safety, pilotage and seamanship things that you learned in your Shorebased course. We can also help fix your sail practical course.
The Yachtmaster Coastal assessment examination may be taken immediately after the practical course. If you complete the practical course, you need a total of 400nM logged before you can take the exam. For more info about exams, go to this RYA link.
We can also help fix your sail practical course.
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