RYA Day Skipper Practical Sail & Yacht Course in Scotland from OffshoreScotland Sea School
RYA Day Skipper practical Course at OffshoreScotland The Day Skipper course gives you the chance to take charge and skipper the boat on passages, with plenty of advice and support from your OffshoreScotland RYA qualified instructor. Time is spent demonstrating and practising basic seamanship and boat handling skills. We explore the practical solutions to navigation and build confidence during pilotage exercises.
On completion of the course you will have the knowledge and ability to safely skipper a yacht in familiar waters during the day and begin your life-long adventure with sailing.
OffshoreScotland is an RYA recognised sea school at Largs, on the west coast of Scotland. As well as providing a range of RYA sail cruising courses at our training centre, we also offer milebuilding passages, skippered charter and bareboat charter using our yacht Esperanza.
Each Yachtmaster and skipper at OffshoreScotland is RYA qualified and fully certificated to teach the Competent Crew syllabus in a practical but fun way and also provide a wealth of knowledge of Scottish inshore and offshore waters. OffshoreScotland is always willing to try and answer any questions from former course members, or any sailing enthusiast, on any sailing related topic. All you have to do is email us at info@offshorescotland.com and we will do our best to help and, at the very least, try and steer you in the right direction.
Day Skipper Course Details
- Duration: 5 days at sea covering 100 nautical miles with 4 night hours
- Pr-requisites: Navigation up to Day Skipper Theory level or equivalent
- Assessment: continuous with maximum of 5:1 (student:instructor) ratio
- Cost: £380
Day Skipper Syllabus
- preparation for sea
- deckwork
- navigation
- pilotage
- meteorology
- rules of the road
- maintenance and repair
- engines
- victualling
- emergency situations
- yacht handling under power
- yacht handling under sail
- passage making
Suggested Reading
- RYA competent crew course notes
- RYA day skipper course notes
- RYA book of navigation
- David Houghton, "Weather at Sea"