Driver Assessments
Duration 40 Hours over 6 days
Price: £495 inc
Coastal Skipper / Yachtmaster Offshore
Advanced training for more experienced skippers building on the Day Skipper course. This course equips you to navigate safely on coastal and offshore passages.
This course will take your theory knowledge to the standard required for the Yachtmaster™ Coastal 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 give you a realistic taste of modern electronic navigation.
Students in the southern hemisphere can take advantage of the southern hemisphere version of our training materials, ensuring that your course is relevant to you.
The course is taught over 40 hours with three exam papers. It can be covered as a series of short sessions, as an intensive week-long course, or by distance learning.
Course topics include:
- position fixing
- course shaping and plotting
- tidal knowledge
- use of almanacs and admiralty publications
- electronic position finding equipment
- taking and interpreting forecasts
- plotting weather systems
- weather predictions using a barometer and by observation
- collision regulations
- customs and excise regulations for cruising abroad
It allows some time for revision of the basics and then moves on to advanced navigation techniques.
Additional Information
Dates of course are 10th, 17th, 24th of March and the 7th, 14th and 21st of April 2019Training Courses
If you can not see the course you are looking for or we have no available dates please get in contact.
CALL: 01935 709031
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Anstey James Ltd are able to offer the following RYA shore based theory courses;
• MARINE RADIO
• ESSENTIAL NAVIGATION AND SEAMANSHIP
• DAY SKIPPER
• COASTAL SKIPPER/YACHTMASTER OFFSHORE