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RYA yachtmaster and day skipper hours building / miles building

Charter boat with crew or skipper available for hours building /miles building

Based Cowes Isle Of Wight

Advantages:

Gain experience and sea miles

Learning about watch keeping

Night sailing

Yacht master and day skipper qualifying passages

Passage planning

Using Weather Forecasts, radar and GPS

Rya Yachtmaster requirements are 50 days, 2,500 miles including at least 5 passages over 60 miles measured along the rhumb line from the port of departure to the destination, acting as skipper for at least two of these passages and including two which have involved overnight passages. 5 days experience as skipper. At least half this mileage and passages must be in tidal waters

Charter boat is 10m twin diesel Beneteau Antares fully coded for 60 miles offshore, 6 persons

You can either skipper or crew or a mixture of both, plenty of opportunities to practice navigation, secondary port calculations, lights and shapes, boat handling, safety, good selection of RYA books on board,

Equipment GPS chart plotter, additional GPS chart plotter, radar, charts, two DSC radios, auto pilot, navigation tools, all safety equipment, liferaft,  2 bedrooms, fly bridge,

Charter options

Cowes –Portsmouth - Weymouth 60 miles

And return same day

Weymouth-Portsmouth – Cowes  60 miles  Total miles 120 and two passages over 60 miles  prices from £300

Overnight option one way an additional £50

Cowes – Newhaven – 50 miles

And return same day

Newhaven – Cowes – 50 miles

Total miles 120 and two passages over 60 miles  prices from £250

Overnight option one way an additional £50

Solent familiarisation day, up to 40 miles around the solent, enter Portsmouth, Southampton, Yarmouth, Beaulieu, Cowes, Newtown Creek, Fishbourne, Hamble river. Plenty of opportunities to hone your navigation or skipper skills! Price includes boat, fuel and either a skipper or experienced crew member £500

Longer charters available – Scilly Isles, Channel Isles etc POA

Self catering Accommodation also available.