RYA Coastal Skipper Syllabus
- Passage
planning
- Can plan a coastal passage including a
consideration of the capability of the yacht, navigation, victualing, weather,
ports of refuge, tidal heights, and tidal streams, publications required and strategy
- Know Customs procedures
- Preparation
for sea
- Is aware of safety equipment required
for offshore passages
- Can prepare a yacht for sea including
stowage, safety briefing, watch keeping, delegating responsibilities and
equipment and engine checks
- Pilotage
- Can prepare a pilotage plan, with
consideration of surroundings, transits, clearing bearings, buoyage, port or
harbour regulations and tidal considerations. Can pilot a yacht by day and
night
- Passage
making and ability as skipper
- Can take charge of a yacht and direct
the crew
- Can organise the navigation, deckwork,
and domestic duties of a yacht on passage
- Is aware of the significance of
meteorological trends
- Is aware of crew welfare on passage
- Can use electronic navigational
equipment for planning and undertaking a passage, including the use of
waypoints and routes
- Boat
handling under power
- Can control the boat effectively in a
confined space under power
- All berthing and un-berthing situations
in various conditions of wind and tide
- Anchoring and mooring in various
conditions of wind and tide
- Adverse
weather conditions
- Preparation for heavy weather and yacht
handling in strong winds
- Navigation and general conduct in
restricted visibility
- Emergency
situations
- Recovery of man overboard
- Understands action to be taken when
abandoning to the liferaft and during helicopter and lifeboat rescues
