
INTERMEDIATE SKIPPER COURSE
Experience being in charge, taking credit when it all goes well and being responsible when it doesn’t.
The RYA Day Skipper Practical Course gives you the ability to be able to legally sail your own boat in daylight hours in International waters.
Learn to skipper a short passage with the instructor on hand to give advice and encouragement and ensure your safety.
Students will learn the principles of boat handling, rules of the road, sailing, crewing, navigation and watch keeping. You will also learn ropework, knots, rigging, maintenance and seamanship skills.
Assumed prior knowledge: Candidates should have previous sailing experience and at minimum an RYA Competent Crew Certificate.
Ability after course: Knowledge to skipper a small yacht in familiar waters by day.
Duration
5 Days
Location
V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
Course Includes
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- Preparation for sea
- Deck work
- Navigation
- Pilotage
- Meteorology
- Rules of the road
- Maintenance and repair work
- Engines
- Victualling
- Emergency Situations
- Yacht handling under sail
- Passage making
- Night cruising
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