RYA Coastal Skipper course

RYA Coastal Skipper – Course description

We promise to show you tricks of the pros on the RYA Coastal Skipper course. We’ll also give you many tips and coach you on handling the yacht and managing the crew on more demanding coastal and offshore, day and night passages. So you get the skills and confidence to do it independently and safely after the course. Training on this course also puts an excellent foundation for the RYA/MCA Yachtmaster(TM) qualifications.

You would need experienced Day Skipper sailing skills and theoretical knowledge of the Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Theory to be able to join and follow the course. You also need to be open to learning and ready to work hard on upgrading your skippering.

Our experienced and patient RYA instructors will help you achieve your goal of becoming a Coastal Skipper. They have thousands of miles under their belt and helped many Coastal 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 Coastal skipper course, we’ll visit picturesque islands and cosy Dalmatian villages with great local food and culture.

With the RYA Coastal 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.

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 long passage in adverse weather conditions
• Night cruising and piloting
• Safety brief, life raft use, helicopter rescue procedure
• Advanced navigation and coastal passage planning
• Piloting in and out of harbours and channels during the night
• Chart Plotter (GPS)
• Blind navigation
• Finding a spot in the sea
• Watch-keeping system
• Actions in fog and restricted visibility
• Storm sails
• Docking, catching a buoy and anchoring under sails and engine
• Boat handling under motor and sail in a confined space
• Advanced meteorology – interpreting the weather trends
• Advanced Rules of avoiding collision – lights, sound signals, shapes
• Engine checks
• Emergency situations – person overboard under sails and engine

Ability after the course:

To confidently and safely skipper a small yacht on coastal or offshore passages by day and night and in adverse weather conditions. To take care of crew and yacht safety, navigation, docking and anchoring, weather, collision regulations and emergency situations.

Certificate: 

• RYA Coastal Skipper (for successful students)
• At least 150 Nautical miles and 8 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.