UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE NO LONGER RUNNING YACHTMASTER COASTAL COURSES
RYA Yachtmaster Coastal students need to have the knowledge to skipper a sailing yacht on coastal cruises but do not necessarily have the experience needed to undertake longer passages.
This preparation week is an intense week of coaching including plenty of night sailing, sailing and power handling exercises and navigation. You are expected to have all the knowledge and skills of an experienced Coastal Skipper before joining the preparation week as time for teaching new skills is at a premium.
A week of refreshing and refining skills, to get you ready for your exam at the end of the preparation week.
We can organise an examiner for the final day of the week. Upon achieving your RYA Yachtmaster Coastal Certificate, you will be recognised as an experienced & knowledgeable sailor.
The preparatory part of the course lasts 5 days, which we run from Monday to Friday. This will be with one of our RYA Yachtmaster Instructors.
After these 5 days, on the Friday evening the instructor will leave the boat and the independent RYA/MCA examiner will board the yacht and start with a crew briefing giving you an idea of what will be required from you over the exam period. Expect to plan passages for day and night and be quizzed up to Yachtmaster Coastal level, emphasis will be on your skippering ability and sailing skills with man overboard under sail, sailing on to mooring buoys and close quarter power handling being at the forefront.
The examiner will also give your instructor a tidal passage for you to have ready on his arrival, expect a plan with multiple hours of tide, tidal gates and shallow harbour entries (usually UK to France). The examiner will go through the passage plan with you, quizzing you to make sure you have a full understanding.
The exam lasts between 6 and 10 hours for 1 candidate and between 8 and 14 hours for 2 candidates.
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