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Course Summary
Course provided by Pacific Sailing School
Located at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia.
Student Instructor ratio: 1 : 5
Course Duration: 5 day/4 night live aboard
Included: Course certificate and materials. All food on board, twin share accommodation on board, mooring fees, fuel.
Knowledge level/Experience: Competent Crew. Essential Navigation. Day Skipper Shore Based Theory. 100miles logged plus 4 night hours.
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Book a Course
Course Summary
Course provided by Pacific Sailing School
Located at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia.
Student Instructor ratio: 1 : 5
Course Duration: 5 day/4 night live aboard
Included: Course certificate and materials. All food on board, twin share accommodation on board, mooring fees, fuel.
Knowledge level/Experience: Competent Crew. Essential Navigation. Day Skipper Shore Based Theory. 100miles logged plus 4 night hours.
Course Dates
Next Steps
AS/RYA Comp Crew & RYA Day Skipper Package
This package combines the Australian Sailing (J24) Harbour Skipper Course (Start Crewing, Start Helming, Start Skippering and RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship) and the RYA Day Skipper Virtual Theory and RYA Day Skipper Practical courses.
Book your first AS Lesson online and schedule successive lessons at your own pace. We recommend completing Harbour Skipper before you begin your Day Skipper Theory. Please note, our Day Skipper Practical 5 day/4 night live-aboard courses may be booked out 3 months in advance.
Course Duration
- AS Harbour Skipper - 8 x 3 hour lessons on a J24 + 2 six-hour days
- Essential Navigation and Seamanship: 8-10 hours eLearning
- Day Skipper Theory - online eLearning course with 4 three hour virtual sessions
- eLearning modules: 40 hours + 2 exams
- RYA Day Skipper Practical: 5 day/4 night on a Catamaran
Recommended Previous Experience:
- Nil
ABILITY AFTER COURSE:
- Skipper a small yacht in familiar waters by day
- Obtain your International Certificate of Competence
HARBOUR SKIPPER COURSE OVERVIEW:
Harbour Skipper is a combination of the AS Start Crewing, Start Helming and Start Skippering courses. In your 8 x 3-hour practical lessons + 2 six hour days on our J24’s you will have hands-on instruction on:
- safety equipment and rigging the yacht;
- points of sailing, going about and the gybe, rotating
- helming (steering the boat)
- reefing, picking up a mooring, man overboard
- helming (steering the boat)
We also include
- 2 Theory and Social evenings
- a 2-hour virtual introduction to navigation session
- unlimited practice sessions for 6 weeks after course completion (available on a standby basis)
- course kit with textbook, logbook and rope for knot practice
- a free twilight race
- 1 x free Discover Sailing Gift Voucher (on request to give to a friend).
essential navigation & seamanship COURSE OVERVIEW:
The RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship course is designed to help learn the skills of navigation, pilotage, passage planning and meteorology. They are great as stand alone courses, but also complement our various practical courses. Whether you are a sailor or drive a power boat, this on line course will equip would-be and experienced skippers with enough knowledge, at least in theory, to go afloat and take charge.
During the course you will be introduced to tidal awareness, charts, almanacs and the use of electronic navigation aids such as GPS. You will be taught about harbour entry and departure pilotage including knowledge of buoyage and a basic understanding of the collision regulations so you know who has right of way! Time will also be spent looking at sources of weather information and what impact this could have on your passage. Towards the end of the course you will put all this information together to plan an actual passage. You will also learn more about what safety equipment you should carry and how it is used.
Day Skipper theory course OVERVIEW:
The RYA Day Skipper Package combines the RYA Day Skipper Theory and the RYA Day Skipper Practical courses.
The RYA Day Skipper course is a comprehensive introduction to chart-work, navigation, meteorology and the basics of seamanship and is invaluable for learning how to start making decisions on board.
Students are taught the basics of coastal and inshore navigation and pilotage including chart-work, position fixing, plotting a course to steer, weather forecasting, a knowledge of tides and the International Regulations for Prevention of Collision at Sea.
As well as navigation the RYA Day Skipper shore-based course will give you an understanding of safety procedures such as distress calls, use of flares, safety harnesses, life jackets and life-rafts.
The blended eLearning and virtual course includes 16 modules and is blended with 4x 3-hour virtual sessions plus two exams.
Revisit exercises at any time, ask questions, your eLearning instructor can help ensure you are using these skills whenever you are skippering and passage planning for your next adventure. The online course can be completed at your own pace and revisited to refresh at any time in the future.
During the virtual sessions, the more challenging topics are taught to increase your knowledge in advance of completing the eLearning questions. This can enable a deeper understanding and help to reduce the time to complete the exercises. In addition, the instructor adds to the course with real life examples of the subjects covered.
Day Skipper practical course OVERVIEW:
It is important to complete the theory before the practical to achieve a successful outcome in the learning process.
You will be living aboard and helping with the running of the boat. With a different anchorage each night, pilotage techniques, boat handling skills will become second nature.
This course is designed to teach you to be the “Skipper” or take charge. The skipper is responsible for the safety of the yacht and crew. These responsibilities include weather forecasting, victualling, engine maintenance, sail selection and handling, passage planning, watch keeping, navigation and pilotage. Your instructor will teach you these skills and you will put them into practiced as you skipper the yacht on short passages along the coast.
You will complete at least 4 night hours sailing to experience night pilotage. You will be assessed as to your theory, sailing and seamanship skills.
This is a pass or fail course and a pass is the minimum requirement for the ICC. Students who successfully complete this course are awarded the RYA Day Skipper Tidal Practical certificate.
Please Note:
If you have not previously completed a practical course with Pacific Sailing School, you will be required to pay a fee for Australian Sailing Insurance and Registration. Our office will discuss this with you if applicable.
included in the as harbour skipper and RYA day skipper packs
- AS course kit with textbook, logbook and rope for knot practice
- RYA Navigation book
- RYA training charts & almanac
- 2b pencil, eraser and sharpener
- Certificates - AS Competent Crew and RYA Day Skipper
This package combines the RYA Competent Crew, the AS Start Skippering, the RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship and the RYA Day Skipper Virtual Theory and RYA Day Skipper Practical courses.
Book your RYA Competent Crew online. We recommend completing your Competent Crew before starting your RYA Day Skipper Theory. Please note, our 5 day/4 night live-aboard courses may be booked out 3 months in advance.
Course Duration
- RYA Competent Crew - 5 day/4 night live-aboard on a Catamaran
- Essential Navigation and Seamanship: 8-10 hours eLearning
- RYA Day Skipper Theory - online eLearning course with 4 x 3-hour virtual sessions
- eLearning modules: 40 hours + 2 exams
- AS Start Skippering: 2 x 6-hour days on a J24
- RYA Day Skipper Practical: 5 day/4 night live-aboard on a Catamaran
Recommended Previous Experience:
- Nil
ABILITY AFTER COURSE:
- Skipper a small yacht in familiar waters by day
- Obtain your International Certificate of Competence
COMPETENT CREW COURSE OVERVIEW:
The RYA Competent Crew course is for beginners and those who would like to become active crew members rather than just passengers. By the end of the course you should be able to steer, handle sails, keep a lookout, and assist in all the day to day routines.
It is also an ideal stepping stone for dinghy sailors to try yachting and for those who have already done some crewing but wish to learn the right way. At the end of the 5 days you will have become a competent crew. With your new confidence you will find the course very enjoyable.
During your 5 days aboard you will visit anchorages off the beaten track and if the weather allows, complete a longer coastal passage. With a maximum of 5 students per course, your fully qualified instructors devote plenty of time to your individual needs.
Safety is paramount, you will learn how to operate all safty equipment including flares, lifejackets, safety harnesses, liferafts, how to assist the recovery of a man overboard and participate in at least four hours of night time sailing during the course. You will be awarded the RYA Competent Crew Certificate and be an asset to any crew you join.
rya dAY sKIPPER THEORY COURSE OVERVIEW:
The RYA Day Skipper Package combines the RYA Day Skipper Theory and the RYA Day Skipper Practical courses.
The RYA Day Skipper course is a comprehensive introduction to chart-work, navigation, meteorology and the basics of seamanship and is invaluable for learning how to start making decisions on board.
Students are taught the basics of coastal and inshore navigation and pilotage including chart-work, position fixing, plotting a course to steer, weather forecasting, a knowledge of tides and the International Regulations for Prevention of Collision at Sea.
As well as navigation the RYA Day Skipper shore-based course will give you an understanding of safety procedures such as distress calls, use of flares, safety harnesses, life jackets and life-rafts.
The blended eLearning and virtual course includes 16 modules and is blended with 4x 3-hour virtual sessions plus two exams.
Revisit exercises at any time, ask questions, your eLearning instructor can help ensure you are using these skills whenever you are skippering and passage planning for your next adventure. The online course can be completed at your own pace and revisited to refresh at any time in the future.
During the virtual sessions, the more challenging topics are taught to increase your knowledge in advance of completing the eLearning questions. This can enable a deeper understanding and help to reduce the time to complete the exercises. In addition, the instructor adds to the course with real life examples of the subjects covered.
start skippering COURSE OVERVIEW:
On our J24’s you will have hands-on instruction on helming (steering the boat). You will learn about safety, responsibility and risk management completing several sailing drills as helmsperson.
This course equips participants with advanced sailing and boat handling techniques and is recommended to be taken immediately prior to your RYA Day Skipper Practical course.
RYA DAY SKIPPER PRACTICAL COURSE OVERVIEW:
It is important to complete the theory before the practical to achieve a successful outcome in the learning process.
You will be living aboard and helping with the running of the boat. With a different anchorage each night, pilotage techniques, boat handling skills will become second nature.
This course is designed to teach you to be the “Skipper” or take charge. The skipper is responsible for the safety of the yacht and crew. These responsibilities include weather forecasting, victualling, engine maintenance, sail selection and handling, passage planning, watch keeping, navigation and pilotage. Your instructor will teach you these skills and you will put them into practiced as you skipper the yacht on short passages along the coast.
You will complete at least 4 night hours sailing to experience night pilotage. You will be assessed as to your theory, sailing and seamanship skills.
This is a pass or fail course and a pass is the minimum requirement for the ICC. Students who successfully complete this course are awarded the RYA Day Skipper Tidal Practical certificate.
Please Note:
If you have not previously completed a practical course with Pacific Sailing School, you will be required to pay a fee for Australian Sailing Insurance and Registration. Our office will discuss this with you if applicable.
included in the RYA competent crew/DAY SKIPPER PRACTICAL
- RYA Competent Crew course kit with textbook, logbook and rope for knot practice
- RYA Navigation book
- RYA training charts & almanac
- 2b pencil, eraser and sharpener
- Certificates - RYA Competent Crew and RYA Day Skipper