RYA Day Skipper yacht sailing training course from Brighton and Solent

Learn to skipper a short passage with the instructor on hand to give advice and encouragement and ensure your safety. Experience being in charge, taking credit when it all  goes well and being responsible when it doesn't.

Day Skipper - 5 Continuous Days

On the RYA Day Skipper practical course you will gain further experience through planning and completing passages, including a night sail. You will also gain your ICC (International Certificate of Competence). You will also practice lots of close quarter handling skills and mooring in a range of marinas - offering more interesting ways to tie up for the night!

 The RYA Day Skipper course syllabus will cover:

• Preparation For Sea
• Deck Work
• Navigation
• Rules Of The Road
• Maintenance & Repair Work
• Emergency Situations
• Engines
• Yacht Handling Under Power & Sail
• Passage Making
• Night Cruising
• Pilotage
• Meteorology

Course Objective: Gain RYA Day Skipper certificate .You will be licensed to skipper your own boat and charter a boat both in the UK or abroad.

Day Skipper course prerequisite: Some theoretical knowledge is an advantage - Day Skipper Theory

Day Skipper Weekend Course - Part 1

On this RYA Day Skipper practical course you will gain further experience through planning and completing passages, including a night sail. You will also gain your ICC (International Certificate of Competence). The course also involves lots of close quarter handling skills and mooring in a range of marinas.

During the first weekend,  you will be sailing out of Brighton and returning to Brighton. Part 2, the second weekend (Friday night till Monday afternoon), will be spent in the Solent from Gosport where you will spend three nights aboard the yacht. 

The Part 1 RYA Day Skipper Course Includes: 

• Preparation for sea
• Deck work
• Reef and shake out reefs
• Anchoring
• Mooring alongside and picking up a mooring under power
• Meteorology
• Rules of the road
• Engine Checks
• Fuel & water filters
• Pump impeller 
• Bleeding fuel system
• Emergency situations
• MOB under power
• Yacht handling under power
• Yacht handling under sail

Course Objective: Gain RYA Day Skipper certificate and you will be licensed to skipper your own boat and charter a boat both in the UK or abroad.

Prerequisite: Some theoretical knowledge is an advantage. Day Skipper Theory

Day Skipper Weekend Course - Part 2

Part 2 of the practical Day Skipper course, the second weekend (Friday night till Monday afternoon), will be spent in the Solent from Gosport where you will spend three nights aboard the yacht. 

The Part 2 RYA Day Skipper Course Includes:

• Taking and plotting visual fixes
• Use of GPS Use of waypoints
• Working up DR and EP
• Estimating tidal heights and streams
• Course to Steer Anchoring,
• Mooring alongside and picking up a mooring under sail
• Buoyage
• Pilotage
• Passage making
• Night Cruising

Course Objective: You will be licensed to skipper your own boat and charter a boat both in the UK or abroad.

Prerequisite: Some theoretical knowledge is an advantage

Day Skipper Theory and Practical Combined

The Day Skipper Yacht Training Package Combined includes RYA Day Skipper Theory and RYA Day Skipper Practical. This a consecutive 9 day course. The first 2 days will involve Day Skipper Theory, the next 5 days will involve Day Skipper Practical and the final 2 days will involve Day Skipper Theory.

The Day Skipper Theory course is a comprehensive introduction to cruising for inexperienced skippers and is an essential preparation for our RYA Day Skipper Practical course.

The Day Skipper Theory Course covers:
    •    Seamanship
    •    Chart Familiarisation
    •    Tidal Heights
    •    Tidal Streams
    •    Secondary Ports
    •    Position Fixing
    •    Dead Reckoning
    •    Estimated Position
    •    Course to Steer
    •    Using the GPS
    •    Chart Work Exam
    •    Buoyage & Pilotage
    •    Safety
    •    Meterology
    •    Passage Planning
    •    Collision Regulations  
    •    Passage Making
    •    General Exam

Course Objective: You will be able to navigate around familiar waters by day

Course Assessment: Two exam papers

Prerequisite: Competent Crew Practical or Equivalent Experience


On the RYA Day Skipper Practical course you will gain further experience through planning and completing passages, including a night sail. You will also gain your ICC (International Certificate of Competence). You will also practice lots of close quarter handling skills and mooring in a range of marinas - offering more interesting ways to tie up for the night!

 The Day Skipper syllabus will cover:
• Preparation For Sea
 • Deck Work
• Navigation
• Rules Of The Road
• Maintenance & Repair Work
• Emergency Situations
• Engines
• Yacht Handling Under Power & Sail
• Passage Making
• Night Cruising
• Pilotage
• Meteorology

Course Objective: You will be licensed to skipper your own boat and charter a boat both in the UK or abroad.

Prerequisite: Some theoretical knowledge is an advantage