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

Useful Information

The YM theory course will run for 16 weeks between Christmas and Spring and cost £320 per student.