RYA Day Skipper Fast Track

RYA Day Skipper Fast Track – Course description

The RYA Day Skipper Fast track course is ideal for beginners who want to become certified skippers as fast as possible.

We have created it together with our partners the recognised RYA Training Centres SkippersOnline and NCP and Mare as a combination of RYA courses that will get you the skills, knowledge and certificates you need to skipper a yacht on your own. Further, the package they is more convenient then sold separately.

The RYA Day Skipper Fast Track course consist of four RYA courses:

• two theoretical – the RYA Day skipper Theory and the RYA VHF – SRC Marine Radio theory and
• two practical courses – the Competent crew and the Day Skipper course.

The two theory courses are certainly the perfect preparation for the practical part. Also, being online accessibile via login data you can do them in your own place and on your own pace.

Afterwards in our base we ll teach you how to sail during the RYA Competent Crew course in the first week and expertly guide you through your first skippering steps on the RYA Day Skipper course in the second week.

Once you have successfully completed the four courses you can start the adventure of skippering on your own.

Our partners SkippersOnline and NCP and Mare provide the online courses. You can get support directly from them while going through the lessons. The RYA VHF – SRC Marine Radio course requires a final in-person written and practical one-hour exam we’ll help you organise while in our base for the practical courses.

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

You’ll spend ten 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 Fast Track course, we’ll visit picturesque islands and cosy Dalmatian villages with great local food and culture.

We occasionally combine students on a Competent Crew and a Day Skipper course which represents a realistic onboard situation. Therefore you’ll be able to see and participate in some Day Skipper training while on the Competent Crew course and manage inexperienced crew while on the Day Skipper course!

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

There are two days off in bettween the courses, we might occasionally use as spare days for sailing (in case of bad weather conditions). Obviously you’re welcome to stay on board in between the courses.

On the RYA Day Skipper Fast track you will learn:

• Sea terms, yacht parts, rigging and sails
• Wind awareness
• Sailing points & manoeuvres – close haul, beam reach, broad reach, run, tack, gybe
• Hoisting, lowering, reefing sail
• Knots – bowline, clove hitch, cleat hitch, figure of eight, round turn and two half hitches, reef knot, sheet bend, rolling hitch
• Safety – Man overboard, fire precaution, personal safety
• Helming – under sails and motor
• Preparation for docking, anchoring, buoy catching
• Basic meteorology
• Basic rules for avoiding collision
• General duties of living on a yacht
• Manners and customs
• How to operate a dinghy
• 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)
• Pilotage in and out of harbours and channels
• Meteorology – interpreting weather forecasts
• Rules of avoiding collision
• Engine check
• Victualling
• Emergency situations – person overboard
• Night cruising
• Syllabus of the RYA VHF – SRC Marine Radio course
• Syllabus of the RYA Day Skipper Theory course
• Syllabus of the RYA VHF – SRC Marine Radio course

Ability after the RYA Day Skipper Fast track course:

To confidently and safely:

• sail on all points of sailing, tie knots, hoist and lower the sails, reef, and helm, covering general duties of living on a yacht and operating a dinghy.
• skipper a small yacht in familiar waters by day and in good weather conditions.
• take care of crew and yacht safety, navigation, docking and anchoring, weather, collision regulations and emergency situations.
• have the confidence and qualification needed to use a marine radio in routine and emergency situations.

Certificate:

• RYA Day Skipper (for successful students)
• RYA/MCA VHF – SRC (for successful students)
• RYA Day Skipper Theory certificate (for successful students)
• At least 200 Nautical miles and 8 hours of night navigation in the RYA logbook

Certainly the Day skipper certificate and the VHF – SRC certificate enable you to charter a sailboat as a skipper in Croatia (and most other EU countries).

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. Secondly all these conditions are met he ll try to meet the crew s wishes as well.

Additionally, to make the skippering start smooth and easy we ll gladly offer you a suitable boat to charter from the same familiar base and provide you with free 24/7 technical assistance.