RYA Day Skipper Practical Course
Day Skipper practical is our most popular course. It moves the student on from ‘learning to sail’ to making command decisions.
The two essential pre-requisites are basic sailing ability and a grasp of navigation theory.
Students who have studied Day Skipper theory can book our Sunday-evening-to-Friday practical course. If you don’t have the theory there are a few options:
Day Skipper theory can be taken as an online course (lonely), at night school (22 weeks!) or integrated into the practical training by way of our ‘combined’ course over 9 days.
The combined course is fast and focussed. Starting on a Saturday morning the first weekend is class room based until mid afternoon on the Sunday when we decamp to the yachts at Universal Marina.
A week of sailing follows, exploring the many delights of the Solent while developing your skippering skills. The final weekend is again class room based polishing off the last of the theory and preparing you for the exams. The three blocks of 2 days, 5 days and 2 days do not have to be consecutive, students often take the last weekend a couple of weeks after the sailing is over, the choice is yours.
Combining the theory and practical elements of Day Skipper is a dynamite solution to the otherwise time consuming and failure prone process of studying the subjects separately.
The benefit of immersion in the subject with a ‘joined-up thinking’ approach from us means you become a better skipper, quicker.
With only 5 days annual leave used up when doing it this way you have plenty of holiday entitlement left for that Mediterranean sojourn you have promised yourself.
Speaking of foreign going – the RYA Day Skipper certificate entitles you to an International Certificate of Competence (ICC), a requirement in most popular cruising areas abroad. You will also need a VHF Radio licence. Rather handily we give away a free one-day RYA course with every practical course booked!
