What's in the course?
Module 1: Trip Preparation
- Communications & calling for help
- Skippering in harbours & busy waterways
- Collision avoidance
- Manage your boat & crew on coastal passages
- Use your Dinghy
Module 2: Weather & Passage Planning
- Understand weather forecasts
- Manage tides and currents
- Use routing tools and live observations
- Planning short & long passages
- Creating contingency plans
Module 3: Learn Your Own Boat
- Manage your own vessel servicing and maintenance
- Look after your systems: engines, water, bilges, steering, electrical, and deck hardware
- How to keep an inventory of spares and tools
- Prepare racing audits and safety equipment
- Cleaning your boat
Module 4: Boat Handling
- Manoeuvring your boat, and turning in confined areas
- Anchoring & picking up a mooring buoy
- Spotting & retrieving a person overboard
- Techniques for docking & berthing in different scenarios
- Twin-engined vessel handling
Module 5: Sailing Skills
- Sailing upwind, downwind, and on other points of sail
- Types of sails
- Sail controls
- Trimming & handling sails
- Putting in, and shaking out, reefs in a sail
Learning Online
Our courses have been specifically designed for an online learning experience. Enrolment in an online course presents a flexible opportunity to work through at your own pace. Our team can provide feedback, instruction and personal support over the phone, via email or face to face to help you get the answers you need.
Who is this course for?
The strategies you learn in this course are structured, effective and perfect for anyone who wants to take their skills to a new level, develop the skills of their family and crew, and refine their understanding of their boat's systems. If you've always wanted to take lessons but never had enough time in your schedule, then the flexibility of this online course will fit your busy lifestyle.
Our training is game changing for skippers and their crews on monohull yachts, catamarans, and motor cruisers.
