RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore Theory

This shorebased course offers advanced training for more experienced skippers building on the Day Skipper course.

The course equips you to navigate safely on coastal and offshore passages. It allows some time for revision of the basics and then moves on to advanced navigation techniques.

This course will take your theory knowledge to the standard required for the Coastal Skipper and Yachtmaster Offshore practical exams, concentrating on advanced navigation and meteorology skills.

As with the Day Skipper shorebased course, the RYA’s specially designed chart plotter software will be used during the course to help give you a realistic taste of modern electronic navigation.

The course is taught over 40 hours with three exam papers. It can be covered as a series of short sessions, spread over several weekends or as an intensive week-long course.

Course topics include:

•position fixing

•tidal knowledge

•electronic position finding equipment

•plotting weather systems

•customs and excise regulations for cruising abroad

•course shaping and plotting

•use of almanacs and admiralty publications

•taking and interpreting forecasts

•collision regulations