RYA DAY SKIPPER ONLINE THEORY & PRACTICAL COURSES

A comprehensive introduction to cruising for skippers with goals, aspirations and ambitions. This world recognised qualification, equips you with credentials to charter worldwide.
$1,290 per person  
$864 each for couples or crews of two or more
$595 for our online "no-tuition" package.

NEXT COURSE STARTS:  Tuesday 01 February 2022          Live on Zoom

RYA Day Skipper Theory online (live on Zoom)

A$1,290.00 A$864.00

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$1,290 per person  or $864 each for couples or crews.
​It's an early morning start - just 1.5 hours per day!
Advance your passage planning skills. This live, online training provides a face to face preparation for your coastal adventures.  

This live, online course develops an understanding of the safety, seamanship, navigation and passage planning elements of skippering a boat during the day around Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, The Hawkesbury, Broken Bay and Pittwater, Sydney and beyond.

The course offers:

• This is a live online course presented live via Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Approximately 40 hours.
• A dedicated instructor, providing feedback, instruction and personal support, live, online, every day.
• Locally developed to be able to support the training and development of skippers who want real-life case studies on our NSW and Queensland coast
• Interaction & discussion with your instructor, available throughout the day, either live online or by phone.
• Immediate face to face (Zoom) feedback on your work and the ability to take exams at your own pace.
• Use of proven teaching methods (discussions and immediate feedback exercises) significantly enhances online learning.
• Attain RYA Day Skipper Shore Based Certificate upon satisfactory completion of the course which includes two short examinations for you to sit in your own time. If for some reason you do not pass first time, we go through everything with you and give an opportunity to sit again, once you feel ready.
• If booking as a couple, family or crew, you receive 33% discount off the price for each candidate.
• $864 per person for groups of 2 or more.​
• $595 for our online, no tuition package

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-Publications and learning aids included in your course pack for online tuition

RYA Day Skipper Course exercises and course notes INCLUDED

RYA Day Skipper Practical course notes INCLUDED

RYA Training Almanac Sth Hemisphere (RRP $20.00) INCLUDED

Yachtmaster Scheme Syllabus and Logbook (RRP $20.00) INCLUDED

RYA Navigation Hanbook RRP ($49.95) INCLUDED

Symbols and Abbreviations for Admiralty Charts (RRP $60.00) INCLUDED

RYA Day Skipper Theory Course Notes INCLUDED

RYA Navigation Exercises Included (RRP $49.95)

RYA Training Chart 5 INCLUDED

RYA EZEE Course Plotter ($20.00RRP) INCLUDED

RYA Training Chart 6 INCLUDED

RYA Day Skipper Practical price per day or 5 consecutive days

A$395.00 - A$1,695.00

Course Dates & Bookings

Learn to skipper a short passage with the instructor on hand to give advice and encouragement and ensure your safety.

• Experience being in charge, taking credit when it all goes well and being responsible when it doesn’t.
• Skills taught: Preparation for sea, deck work, navigation, pilotage, meteorology, rules of the road, maintenance and repair work, engines, victualling, emergency situations, yacht handling under power, yacht handling under sail, passage making, night cruising.
• Catamaran & monohull training available.
• Own boat training also available.
• Pre-requisite: RYA Day Skipper Theory course
• Also recommended is Australian Sailing’s “National Keelboat Program” if no prior experience, to teach you to sail around a course and control the boat's speed. 
• Course taught over 5 days in 9 to 11 hour day, blocks.
• We do NOT overnight on our yachts due to Covid restrictions.

If you are thinking of doing your RYA Day Skipper Practical course, we have availability for the first and third weekends each month, from November, this year into 2022. Both these courses will be conducted out of Palm Beach, Pittwater.
 
The first weekend is a 2-day course on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd January, 2022. The two days are long and start at 09:00hrs and conclude at 18:00hrs, sometimes as late as 21:00hrs. The cost is $395 per day, so a total of $790.
 
The second weekend is a 3-day course on Friday 14th, Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th January, 2022. On the Friday of this weekend, weather permitting, we will be passage making to Lake Macquarie, which is 36 Nautical Miles to the north of Barrenjoey.  During Saturday we will be sailing all over beautiful Lake Macquarie, which is 5 times bigger than Sydney Harbour. On the Sunday, we will sail back down the coast to Pittwater and finally Palm Beach. The cost for this weekend is $395 per day, so a total of $1,185.
 
If either or both of these weekends appeal to you, please let us know. It will be great fun to have you along.
 
Due to Covid restrictions there is no overnighting on our training boat. Therefore we help arrange AirBnB, or similar, accommodation ashore. This makes for a magical weekend in either The Hawkesbury and / or Lake Macquarie. Or, you can overnight at your home.

RYA Day Skipper fact sheet

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