Minimum pre-course experience:

  • 15 days experience - 2 days as skipper, 300 miles, 8 night hours
  • Navigation to Coastal Skipper shorebased standard.
  • Boat handling to Day Skipper Practical standard.
  • Course durati on 5 days

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Coastal Skipper Practical

The more ambitious motor cruising skipper can improve his or her skills on a Coastal Skipper course.

This course provides tuition in the skills and techniques required to skipper a motor cruiser, of at least 7m in length, safely on coastal and offshore passages, by day and night. The course consists of skippered passages in a whole variety of situations, on tidal waters, and includes tuition regarding safety, passage planning, pilotage by day and night, boat handling and emergency situations.

The course culminates in a one-day practical examination by an outside examiner appointed by the RYA.

Successful candidates will be issued with the RYA Coastal Skipper Certificate.