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About our Day Skipper Courses
A Day Skipper should have the skills and knowledge needed to be in charge of a small yacht at Sea, in familiar waters by day, and to be able to take a crew of lesser experienced people out safely and bring them back.
The Shorebased course is suitable for Motor Yachtsmen as well as those who prefer to go to Sea under sail.
Day Skipper is a RYA course of two parts; first you should do the "Shorebased" part, and follow this with the Practical course.
Day 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 Day Skipper 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 two examinations of about one and a half hours each.
There are twelve 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.
You will probably need to complete two of these exercises between each of our teaching sessions. You will want them all marked and back to you, before you sit the examinations.
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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).
For the sum of £380, you get the full teaching time, your coursework back, marked with feedback, e-mail support, the practice charts, a training Almanac, the RYA course book, a pair of dividers, a Bretton or Portland Plotter, a 2B pencil, an eraser, tea or coffee with biscuits, the examinations and when successful, the course certificate.
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.
Book two people together for the same course and we will give you 10% discount.
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 Day Skipper Practical Course involves spending a minimum of 5 days on a yacht, with an instructor. You do lots of 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.
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