RYA Competent Crew is the first step in learning to sail a yacht. It's a five day course with a relaxed schedule designed for complete beginners or those with a little dinghy or yachting experience.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Competent Crew is designed to give you the skills and confidence to work as part of the crew of a cruising yacht.
You'll learn the basics of sailing: how to steer, how to hoist and trim the sails, how to handle the anchor and mooring lines, how to respond to emergency situations; and you'll also learn basic theory, including the names of parts of the boat, useful knots, and personal safety guidelines.
You'll live aboard the yacht and take part in all the day-to-day activities from tying on fenders to making lunch. But it's not all hard work - we'll take time to explore the picturesque Saronic Gulf, moor in colourful fishing harbours, and swim in crystal clear waters.
At the end you'll be ready to help sail a cruising yacht as a useful member of the crew.
It's a fun, sociable course, and highly recommended whether you are travelling alone, with your partner, or with a group of friends.
Anyone can enjoy this course, even if they've never stepped on a boat before!
COURSE ESSENTIALS
RYA DAY SKIPPER
RYA Day Skipper Practical is a course for those who are ready for more responsibility. It gives you the skills to skipper your own boat safely and confidently anywhere in the Mediterranean, Baltic, or other non-tidal waters.
If you're planning a flotilla holiday or bareboat charter holiday, this is the course for you. With tuition from our highly qualified Instructors, this course has long been one of our most popular. In five days we'll teach you the skills to skipper a cruising yacht
Although this is a more demanding course than Competent Crew, we'll make time for swimming, sunbathing, and a few good bottles of wine along the way.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Day Skipper Non-Tidal teaches you the skills you'll need to skipper a yacht in non-tidal waters, by day.
It's a fairly intense course, covering practical pilotage, navigation, seamanship and boat-handling, including 'Med'-mooring - everything you need to become a confident skipper. Just think how you'll feel bringing your own yacht into the harbour...
COURSE ESSENTIALS
RYA COASTAL SKIPPER
RYA Day Skipper Practical is a course for those who are ready for more responsibility. It gives you the skills to skipper your own boat safely and confidently anywhere in the Mediterranean, Baltic, or other non-tidal waters.
If you're planning a flotilla holiday or bareboat charter holiday, this is the course for you. With tuition from our highly qualified Instructors, this course has long been one of our most popular. In five days we'll teach you the skills to skipper a cruising yacht
Although this is a more demanding course than Competent Crew, we'll make time for swimming, sunbathing, and a few good bottles of wine along the way.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Day Skipper Non-Tidal teaches you the skills you?ll need to skipper a yacht in non-tidal waters, by day.
It's a fairly intense course, covering practical pilotage, navigation, seamanship and boat-handling, including 'Med'-mooring - everything you need to become a confident skipper. Just think how you'll feel bringing your own yacht into the harbour...
