RYA Day Skipper course

RYA Day Skipper – Course description

We promise to expertly guide you through your first – and hardest – skippering steps on the RYA Day Skipper course. So you get the skills and confidence to take a yacht on your own after it. Indeed, what can be better than taking your friends and family on a nice cruise? And enjoy your sailing holiday safely, with you in charge.

This course is a perfect fit for sailors who want to move forward from being active crew members and learn how to manage the yacht and the crew. You would need Competent Crew sailing skills and theoretical knowledge of the Day Skipper Theory to be able to join and follow the course. You also need to be willing and open to learning and enjoying your first skippering steps because you’ll often be in a role of a skipper during the course.

Our experienced and patient RYA instructors – who firmly believe that anybody can learn how to skipper – will help you achieve your goal of becoming one. They have thousands of miles under their belt and helped hundreds of Day Skipper candidates achieve their goals.

You’ll spend five days living on board a brand new, perfectly clean, heated, spacious and fast sailing yacht fully equipped for comfortable cruising. We’ll also anchor in stunning bays perfect for swimming in crystal clear azure – hazards free – Adriatic sea. During the RYA Day Skipper course, we’ll visit picturesque islands and cosy Dalmatian villages with great local food and culture.

With the RYA Day Skipper certificate, you can charter a yacht worldwide. You’ll also need an RYA VHF – SRC Marine Radio certificate to charter a yacht in Croatia and elsewhere.

We sometimes combine students on a Competent Crew and a Day Skipper course as it represents a realistic onboard situation. With that, you’ll be able to train how to manage the inexperienced crew!

The accommodation is on a shared cabin base, but Single-use of cabin is available upon request.

What will you learn:

• Preparation of the yacht and crew for sea
• Safety briefing
• Yacht handling under power and sail – docking, anchoring, buoy catching, springing off and on
• Navigation and passage planning – position fixing, heading, bearing
• Chart plotters (GPS)
• Piloting in and out of harbours and channels
• Meteorology – interpreting weather forecasts
• Rules of avoiding collision
• Engine check
• Victualling
• Emergency situations – person overboard
• Night cruising

Ability after the course:

To confidently and safely skipper a small yacht in familiar waters by day and in good weather conditions. To take care of crew and yacht safety, navigation, docking and anchoring, weather, collision regulations and emergency situations

Certificate:

• RYA Day Skipper (for successful students)
• At least 100 Nautical miles and 4 hours of night navigation in the RYA logbook

Location:

Jezera and surrounding islands, bays and villages

Although we’re trying to show you the most of our sailing area during the course, the exact route is not set, but your instructor s call with priorities being safety, programme, weather conditons, berth availability and the crew’s ability. If all of these conditions are met he ll try to meet the crew s wishes as well.