A course for aspiring skippers with some yachting and experience and basic navigation and sailing skills.
Learn to skipper a short passage with the instructor on hand to give advice and encouragement and ensure your safety. Experience being in charge, taking credit when it all goes well and being responsible when it doesn't.
Before this course, if you are not sure that your sailing is up to speed, a good way to learn is on an RYA Level 2 dinghy course (available from Mylor Sailing School, our sister company). This will teach you to sail around a course and control the boat's speed.
If it's help with navigation that you need, you should take our Day Skipper shorebased course. The Day Skipper course will be taken in tidal waters in and around Falmouth and Fowey and your certificate will be endorsed accordingly.
Pre-course Experience: 5 days, 100 miles, 4 night hours on board a sailing yacht
Assumed Knowledge: Basic navigation and helmsmanship. It is recommended you attend the Day Skipper shorebased course beforehand
Minimum Duration: 5 days, 3 weekends or 3 consecutive days plus 2 consecutive days.
Minimum age: 16 years
Course content: Preparation for sea, deck owrk, 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.
Once into Falmouth Bay access to the South Cornish coast is unlimited. These have been classed as England’s finest cruising waters and many local rivers and towns are very accessible including the traditional fishing ports of Mevagissey and Coverack, the towns of Falmouth, Fowey and Helford.
RYA Day Skipper