RYA Day Skipper PRACTICAL

5-Day Course £725

Next course: Monday 6th Feb > Friday 19th Feb 2023

Please emails us at info@londonschoolofsailing.co.uk for bookings and enquiries

Becoming a Day Skipper is a challenge. Managing your crew, planning your passage, and making the correct decisions become easier with practice.  By taking your RYA Day Skipper practical course you can learn the skills necessary to skipper a yacht by day in familiar waters.

Previous experience required:
Basic sailing and theory knowledge to RYA Day Skipper Theory standard Recommended pre-course experience:
5 days at sea | 100 miles sailed | 4 night hours | 5 days onboard | Minimum age is 16

Day Skippers in Training, Sailing in the Solent

> COURSE AIM:

To have fun, but also to put your THEORY into practice and learn to skipper a yacht in familiar waters by day. Learn to leave and return from your berth safely, anchoring, picking up a mooring buoy, recover a man overboard, navigation, and safety onboard a yacht. Hone your sailing skills, experience sailing at night, and enjoy sailing to a different port each evening.

> COURSE CONTENT

  • Preparation for sea
  • Deck work
  • Navigation
  • Pilotage
  • Meteorology
  • Rules of the road
  • Maintenance and repair work
  • Engines
  • Victualling
  • Emergency situations
  • Yacht handling under power
  • Yacht handling under sail
  • Passage making
  • Night cruising

> WHAT'S NEXT?

You will be able to skipper a small yacht by day in familiar waters. Upon successful completion of the RYA Day Skipper course, you will have gained a recognised qualification that is accepted in the majority of countries as confirmation of your competence to charter a boat.

If you are planning to charter with your RYA Day Skipper certificate we would recommend checking with your charter company to ensure that they accept the RYA Day Skipper certificate as evidence of competence. Some charter companies may insist on an ICC (International Certificate of Competency). If this is the case, your RYA Day Skipper certificate can be used to gain the ICC. Please visit our ICC page to download the ICC application form. If you haven't chartered a boat before, we recommend having a look at our Chartering a yacht for the first time blog post for useful information on the charter process – from helping you to choose a yacht to what should be included in charter handover.

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> WHATS INCLUDED?

  • All meals and refreshments while onboard
  • Accomodation onboard
  • All mooring fees
  • All fuel costs

> WHAT'S EXTRA?

  • Rental of oilskins/waterproofs is £5pd
  • Any food and drinks ashore is at everyone own expense
Day Skipper training on the Solent. Sailing from Cowes on the isle Wight down to the Needles lighthouse
RYA Day skippers can charter a boat to skipper for themselves worldwide. This shot was taken in a beautiful anchorage in Mallorca

Why not gain some more experience by taking part in one of our exciting mile builders (more information here and here).

We also love racing - it’s a great way to learn all the different stations on the boat. We have planned some race training, as well as some exciting racing (check out the races we have entered by clicking on the “2022 Races” link in the header of this page).