RYA Day Skipper Course in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand

Learn to sail and become a RYA Day Skipper while enjoying the beauty of New Zealand's Bay of Islands The Bay of Islands is a perfect base, with boating conditions from sheltered around the island sailing, to challenging and stunning coastal passages.

The Day Skipper Course is ideal for sailors who have crewing experience and now want to take charge of a yacht and get a better taste for sailing, on-the-water life and the opportunity to explore amazing cruising grounds or just to be able to take friends and family out for the day. The Day Skipper Course focuses on developing your boat handling, navigation, skippering and general seamanship skills.

Our aim, whatever your ability, is to introduce you to a range of techniques and teach skills and thereby make sailing more enjoyable, and giving you confidence in your ability to skipper a yacht.

The RYA sail cruising and RYA yachtmaster scheme encourage's high standards of seamanship and navigation. The practical sailing courses give you the opportunity to receive expert instruction and advance you to a level of seamanship in 5 days which may otherwise take years to achieve.

Once you have successfully completed your Day Skipper you can go on with more experience to higher level course's that eventually lead on the RYA/MCA certificates of competence, which are recognised worldwide.

Plan

The course is live-a-board for the 5 day duration and plan is to sail out into the stunning Bay of Islands and enjoy one of the best cruising area's in the world while learning the ropes. You will spend the first day running through boat handling around the marina and inner sheltered waters before sailing out into the Bay. Along the way you'll work on sail trim and handling the boat through tacks and gybes. By late afternoon we'll pull into an amazing bay for the night. Over the ensuing 4 days we will cover preparation for sea, navigation, meteorology, maintenance and repair work, provisioning, yacht handling under power and sail, passage making, deck work, pilotage, rules of the road, engines emergency situations and man overboard recovery.

We aim to cover at least 100 miles during the course which includes one night sail of 4-5 hours during this time.

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The yacht is fully equipped for offshore conditions including full harness inflatable life jackets, for your safety and comfort.

Courses are run year round and subject to demand on the scheduled dates. Course's are restricted to a maximum of 5 students. This means you get more personal instruction and the yacht can be run efficiently and as if in a normal cruising situation. As we have 4 separate berth areas you may have your own cabin but it could be you may have to share a 2 berth cabin depending on student numbers

Certificates are awarded on the successful completion of each course and applicable to the level of competency achieved for your particular course. You can gain the RYA/MCA commercial qualifications further down the track once you complete your Coastal Skipper, Offshore and Ocean Yachtmaster Examinations, which leads on from the practical courses we offer.

All of our instructors are fully RYA qualified and vastly experienced in coastal and ocean sailing, enthusiastic and very keen to pass on their knowledge.

From 995 € /person

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RYA Day Skipper Course in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand

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