RYA VHF Marine Radio (SRC)

This is one of the more important one day courses run at Irish Offshore Sailing. It is essential for any yachtsman to understand how to operate a marine VHF radio. Upon successful completion of this course, candidates are awarded the RYA vhf operators certificate. This allows you to legally operate a VHF onboard a vessel, and is an essential component of the Yachtmaster Coast and Yachtmaster Offshore Exams.

The course covers the different uses of a VHF in the maritime world. You will learn the rules and regulations governing radiotelephony, how to assess different situations where a vhf is used and how to operate the vhf to make these calls. This is run as a one day course, and costs €150, there is an additional processing fee and external exam fee of €80 payable to the RYA.

This course while run as an RYA course is accepted by the Irish Sailing Association as pre entry for all ISA instructor training courses. It also meets the requirements of charter companies throughout the Med and Caribbean who require that the skipper of the yacht is in possession of a VHF operators cert. The certificate also meets the requirements for Professional Yachtmaster Skippers looking to get commercially endorsed through the RYA.

Please contact us to express an interest in this course, we generally need 3 people booked to make this course viable.

Course Cost: €150 ( Includes VHF Manual) (An additional €80 examination fee is payable to the RYA)