
Day Skipper
This course is designed to teach you pilotage, navigation, seamanship and boat handling so that you will feel confident to skipper a small yacht safely yourself by day in familiar tidal waters.
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Course Syllabus
- Preparation for Sea
- Deck Work
- Navigation
- Pilotage
- Meteorology
- Rules of the Road
- Maintenance & Repair Work
- Engines
- Victualing
- Emergency Situations
- Yacht Handling Under Power
- Yacht Handling Under Sail
- Passage Planning
Course Syllabus
- Cost €680
- Duration 5 days – start Sunday 1800, finish Friday 1800
- Pre-requesites 5 days sea time, 100 miles, 4 night hours & navigation to shorebased level

