RYA COASTAL SKIPPER PRACTICAL COURSE

The RYA Coastal Skipper Practical course is the next step in advancing from being a Day Skipper to becoming a more confident and competent navigator and sailor. Learn more advanced skippering techniques and undertake longer coastal passages by day and night.

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RYA Coastal Skipper Practical Course
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Please see our Terms and Conditions

THE COURSE

The RYA Coastal Skipper course is 5 days long and building on previous experience, you will learn to prepare and plan coastal passages, and how to navigate at night and in restricted visibility.

Develop your boat handling skills under sail and engine with more challenging situations. Learn to handle a boat in adverse weather and how to recover a man overboard under sail.

You will be pushed out of your comfort zone by the instructor who will demonstrate, teach, and allow you to learn from and mistakes you make while practising.

The course is a taught assessment with the students passing if the instructor is happy that all requirements have been met during the 5 days.

SAIL WITH YOUR FRIENDS?

If you know anyone wanting to do their Competent Crew course then they can join you on this course which work well in tandem together and you’ll get £25 off each

WHY SAIL WITH LSS

Why do it if it’s not going to be fun? At LSS we make sure everyone is having the best possible time at all times. Shouting is a no go and we just ask that you are enthusiastic and willing.

Everyone gets a go at all the jobs, sailing is a team sport and everyone needs to get stuck into the jobs above and below deck.

Connect with your skipper and crew to build new relationships that go beyond the course.

We learn the most about sailing and ourselves when we are being pushed out of our comfort zone.

Senses of humour, no sense of tempers, please…. We believe that people perform best, especially when learning, without a barrage of “encouragement” about how they could be doing it “better”, being hurled their way.

Being Free of Ego is the only way to learn, teach, and improve at sailing. We ask that to sail with us you come with a coachable and relaxed mindset

FAQs & IMPORTANT NOTES

    • All meals and refreshments while onboard

    • Accommodation onboard

    • All mooring fees

    • All fuel costs

    • Rental of oilskins/waterproofs is £5pd

    • Any food or drinks ashore are at everyone own expense

  • Please contact us at info@londonschoolofsailing.co.uk to discuss payment options

  • Please see our BOOKING TERMS AND CONDITIONS for details about changing your course once booked

    • Minimum sailed time: 15 Days (2 days as skipper)

    • Minimum mileage sailed: 300 miles,

    • Minimum hours sailed at night: 8 night hours

    • Theory knowledge: To Yachtmaster theory level

  • The Competent Crew course is 5 days and 4 night s long and must be continuous to allow for longer passages.

  • You will be sailing on one of LSS’s training Yachts kept on the River Hamble. They are able to sleep 8 people comfortably but will have a maximum of 5 plus the instructor.

    The boats are

    Kindred Spirit - Sigma 38

    Laita - Bavaria 37

    Kotari - Jeanneau 49

  • The boats are based on the River Hamble.

    Kindred Spirit is at Deacons Boatyard, in Bursledon.

    Laita is in Port Hamble Marina in the Hamble Village.

  • The Solent, which the River Hamble is on the Northern edge of, is the perfect training area between Southampton Water and the Isle of Wight.

    Notorious for consistent winds, wicked tides, and a gorgeous variety of harbours, rivers and anchorages to visit.

    An average week will see you visit any of the below:

    • Cowes

    • Yarmouth

    • Beaulieu river

    • Lymington

    • The Needles & Alum Bay

    • Newtown Creek

    • Portsmouth

    • Wooton Creek

    • Osbourn Bay

    • Langstone Harbour

    • Chichester Harbour

      and many other little anchorages.

  • During the event, accommodation on the boat is provided.

    If travelling from afar, it might be advisable to book accommodation the night before or after the event dates.

  • After passing your Coastal Skippers, you will now find chartering boats easier as they will have more piece of mind giving you larger boats and in perhaps more advanced sailing locations.

    After more experience in these areas and more miles logged you’re getting yourself in the zone for taking on the Yachtmaster Coastal/Offshore qualifications!

  • We will be in marinas and harbours every day most likely so you won’t need to shower on the boat. The boats are fitted with a functional toilet, sink, showers and kitchen (galley) for cooking.

  • Please take a look at our kit list here.

  • The aim of the course is to teach the skills and techniques required to skipper a yacht safely on coastal and offshore passages by day and night.

    • Passage planning

      • Can plan a coastal passage including a consideration of the capabilities of the yacht, navigation, victualling, weather, ports of refuge, tidal heights and tidal streams, publications required and strategy

    • Preparation for sea

      • Knows customs procedures

      • Is aware of safety equipment required for offshore passages

      • Can prepare a yacht for sea including stowage, safety briefing, watch keeping, delegating responsibilities and equipment and engine checks

    • Pilotage

      • Can prepare a pilotage plan, with consideration of soundings, transits, clearing bearings, buoyage, port or harbour regulations and tidal considerations

      • Can pilot a yacht by day and night

    • Passage-making and ability as a skipper

      • Can take charge of a yacht and direct the crew

      • Can organise the navigation, deckwork and domestic duties of a yacht on passage

      • Can use electronic navigational equipment for planning and undertaking a passage, including the use of waypoints and routes

      • Is aware of the significance of meteorological trends

      • Is aware of crew welfare on passage

    • Yacht handling under power

      • Can control the yacht effectively in a confined space under power

      • All berthing and unberthing situations in various conditions of wind and tide

    • Yacht handling under sail

      • Can use the sails to control the yacht in a confined space

      • Anchoring and mooring in various conditions of wind and tide

      • Can sail efficiently on all points of sailing

    • Adverse weather conditions

      • Preparation for heavy weather and yacht handling in strong winds

    • Emergency situations

      • Navigation and general conduct in restricted visibility

      • Recovery of man overboard under power and sail

      • Understands actions to be taken when abandoning to the liferaft and during helicopter and lifeboat rescues