Aim:
To teach the skills and techniques required to skipper a yacht safely on coastal and offshore passages by day and night within the Mediterranean Sea or Baltic Sea.
Suggested minimum pre-course experience: Day Skipper course or 15 days (2 days as skipper) 300 miles, 8 night hours
Assumed knowledge: Navigation to Coastal Skipper shorebased standard. Sailing to Day Skipper practical standard
Course content:
- Passage planning
- Preparation for sea
- Pilotage
- Passage making and ability as skipper
- Yacht handling under power
- Yacht handling under sail
- Adverse weather conditions
- Emergency situations
Duration of stay: 5 days training
Ability after course: Skipper a yacht on coastal passages by day and night
