Complete Yachtmaster Fast-Track
Details:
Successful candidates will become qualified to RYA / MCA Yachtmaster Offshore with Commercial Endorsement and certified to skipper sailing yachts up to 200 tonnes, up to 150 miles from a safe haven and with up to 12 passengers on board. This course is for the sailor who wants to excel at what he/she does.
Overview:
If you are serious about getting into sailing professionally, then this is the course for you. The entire programme requires fourteen weeks of training, although some students take a week or two off part way through, as we are training six days a week.
Your first five weeks will provide a thorough introduction to both sailing and skippering for leisure sailors and those taking the first steps on the professional ladder. Sailing, navigation and safety training all complement each other and develop you as a sailor. Unlike other fast track courses, we use keelboat sailing as a tool to coach specific skills without all of the distractions of a larger yacht. This means we can focus on very precise sailing skills and give you far more time at the helm and with the sail controls.
Over the next five weeks, navigation techniques are developed and coastal and "Cross Channel" passage making skills are a key focus. Parallel to the passage making and skippering, you will develop your boat handling. Again, we make the use of keelboats for a few days of specific sailing skills. We aim at the end of week ten to take the Yachtmaster Coastal Exam.
The final step is for us to develop your offshore and skippering techniques, preparing you both for the Yachtmaster Offshore Exam and the world of professional sailing. There are plenty of opportunities to skipper the yachts offshore.
Course Duration:
Sixteen weeks (includes two weeks off).
Pre Requisites:
- Minimum Age 18
- ML5 or ENG1 Medical (ML5 will restrict you to working up to 60NM offshore)
- 125 Sailing Miles Logged
- 5 days keelboat or yachting experience
- RYA member ( join here )
Course Content:
Keelboating
- RYA Keelboat Level 1
- RYA Keelboat Level 2
- RYA Keelboat Level 3
- RYA Keelboat Sailing with Spinnakers
- RYA Keelboat Seamanship
Sail Cruising & Offshore Sailing
- RYA Dayskipper Sail
- RYA ICC
- Offshore Cruising
- Self Skippering
- RYA Coastal Skipper
- MCA Yachtmaster Offshore
Navigation and Meterology
Communictaions
Engineering
Safety & First Aid
Course Content
- 14 weeks Training
- Target Mileage 2,600
What's Included:
- 14 weeks of sailing and training
- 70 days afloat
- 14 days of shorebased training
- 2,500 sea miles
- RYA Keelboat Level 1, 2, 3, Seamanship & Spinnakers Certificates (coastal)
- RYA Diesel, Sea Survival, First Aid & ISAF certificates
- RYA Dayskipper Sail & Coastal Skipper Sail certificates (tidal)
- ICC and CEVNI Test
- Use of yachts
- Loan of a life jacket
- Fuel, gas and on board expenses
- Meals & Accommodation on board the yachts for the offshore and sail cruising courses
- 2 RYA Training Charts
- RYA Dayskipper Shorebased Hand-book
- RYA Dayskipper Exercises publication
- Chart Plotter CD ROM (for PC)
- RYA Yachtmaster Shorebased Hand-book
- RYA Yachtmaster Exercises publication
- RYA Sea Survival Handbook
- First Aid Hand-book
- RYA Diesel Course Notes
- 1 Year introductory RNLI membership
- Free parking on site
What's Not Included:
- Wet Weather Gear (bring your own or hire ours for £70 for the whole course)
- RYA SRC Licence Fee (£30)
- Berthing fees when away from the home port (divided equally among the crew)
- Meals & accommodation for the keelboat and shorebased modules
- Yachtmaster Exam Fee (£185)
- RYA/MCA Commercial Endorsement Fee (£25)
Optional Extras:
- STCW'95 Elementary First Aid Certification (£12)
- Pre Course 5 days Competent Crew yachting week (£462)
- 1 day RYA Radar Course (£96)
- 2 day RYA Powerboat Level 2 Course (£282)
- Post Course 5 day RYA Cruising Instructor Course (£498)
Why choose Stormforce Coaching for this course?:
We run these courses with small numbers, ensuring that you get plenty of time on the helm and as navigator. Our team are able to deliver a personal service and our Chief Instructor will personally monitor your progress to ensure that we focus on any weak areas as they appear. Unlike some fast-track programmes, we allow you to self skipper the yachts without an Instructor on board before your final exam, giving you genuine skipper experience in your log book.
Our programme covers everything you will need to become a Yachtmaster Offshore. The keelboat modules we include are a unique part of our programme. These smaller craft are very responsive and allow you to focus on sailing skills without many of the the distractions that occur on larger cruising yachts. The tidal waters of the Solent and the English Channel will prepare you for pretty much wherever you want to go.
Price: £6990
Please call the office on 02380 231 122 to book this course.
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