Course Details
RYA Day Skipper Shorebased
The Day Skipper course is intended to equip a skipper with the theoretical knowledge needed for the Day Skipper practical course. The syllabus covers the knowledge required to navigate familiar coastal waters by day but includes a basic knowledge of lights in case you arrive after dark.
Successful completion requires 40 hours tuition and completion of two assessment papers to a satisfactory standard. For this reason at RHYC we organise this course to run over three weekends.
Duration:
It takes 40 hours with two exam papers.
Prior Qualification: None.
RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Shorebased
An advanced course for more experienced skippers, intended to follow completion of the Day Skipper course and building upon that syllabus to cover the theoretical knowledge required for the Coastal Skipper and Yacht Master practical examinations. The syllabus is focused on navigation, meteorology and the International Regulations for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea but also covers a wide range of knowledge needed by skippers cruising coastal or international waters.
Successful completion requires 40 hours tuition and completion of three assessment papers to a satisfactory standard. For this reason at RHYC we organise this course to run over three weekends.
The course is demanding and assumes competence in the skills covered during the Day Skipper course. Our instructors strongly recommend that students have recently successfully completed a Day Skipper Shorebased course before embarking upon this one.
Duration:
40 hours and three exam papers. At the Royal Harwich, this is run over a series of three weekends.
Prior Qualification: RYA Day Skipper.
RYA 5 days afloat courses on sailing yachts
Turning the theory into practice. We offer courses from beginners to aspirant Yachtmasters. The syllabuses for the various courses and any pre-course experience – for Competent Crew and Day Skipper and Coastal Skipper – can be found on the RYA website www.ryatraining.org or in the RYA’s booklet “G/15”. Own boat tuition can be provided on suitably equipped yachts.
Duration: Five Day Course
Prior Qualificatiions: None
RYA Marine Radio Short Range (VHF) Certificate
The course teaches the basics of radio operation, the correct channels to use, distress, emergency and medical assistance procedures. Digital Selective Calling (DSC) facilities are an integral part of all new VHF sets and holders of an ‘old’, non DSC, licence will need to upgrade their qualification to the new certificate before they can use them. The certificate authorises the holder to use, or supervise the use, of a VHF (DSC) radio aboard any appropriately licensed British Vessel.
At RHYC we offer a one or two day course. The one day course meets RYA and MCA requirements. The two day course offers greater opportunity for practice and usually features a visit from a supplier of VHF equipment. Our qualified and experienced instructors are also local coastguard officers.
Note. The changes to the Ships’ Radio Licensing regulations, announced by Ofcom in December 2005 and coming into force on 1st October 2006, do not in any way change the requirement for users to hold a licence to operate.
Duration: One Day Course.
Prior Qualification: none
RYA Radar
Sailing yachts and motor cruisers increasingly have radars on board for collision avoidance and as an aid to navigation. The International Regulations for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea states that if you have Radar on board you must know how to use it. The best results are only obtained when you know how to use all the functions correctly.
It is important to note that Radar is probably the most versatile of all electronic navigation aids. It is not, however, an all-seeing eye, and can easily mislead those who do not know how to adjust its controls, allow for its limitations, or interpret its picture. This RYA one-day course gives you an understanding of the use of radar in a small boat as an aid to navigation and collision avoidance, and reveals the mysteries of the adjustments and controls. It has been designed to help you get the best out of your Radar.
The course starts from basics by looking at the way a radar set works and then goes on to demonstrate how the different adjustments and features available affect the working of the set. Other subjects covered include target definition, radar reflectors, types of Radar display, Radar plotting and the use of radar for navigation and collision avoidance.
Duration: One day course.
Prior Qualification: none
RYA First Aid
In a medical emergency a little first-aid knowledge and immediate action can save lives, especially in remote locations. This course is designed to provide a working knowledge of first aid for people using small craft and to support skippers of yachts and motor vessels. It fulfils the requirement for skippers of Small Craft working within 60 miles of a safe haven.
It is proven that immediate first-aid can save lives. The RYA First Aid course is based on the recommendations of the Health and Safety Executive and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. It includes all the usual First Aid topics, relating them specifically to 'on the water' scenarios. The course covers such subjects as minor ailments, including headaches, sunburn and small lesions through to immediate response to serious medical emergencies, in situations that yachtsmen could encounter. There is emphasis on resuscitation techniques, and the primary care of a 'man overboard' victim. Procedures for obtaining outside medical assistance and a helicopter rescue service are covered as well as the correct first-aid stores for your own boat, whether you sail inshore or offshore.
Duration: One day
Prior Qualification: None
RYA Sea Survival
Yachting is one of the safest leisure sporting activities and 99.9% of yachtsmen will never use their Life-raft. However, if you are one of the unlucky few, your chances of survival will be greatly increased if you understand how to use the equipment and how to help yourself. It is a well-proven fact that in the event of an emergency at sea, people with training are more likely to survive.
The Sea Survival course is a genuine life-saver. Designed for small craft users, the course provides understanding on how to use the safety equipment found on small vessels. A central part of the course is Life rafts, the equipment they contain and survival techniques. Other topics covered include the design of life jackets, medical aspects of sea survival, and search and rescue techniques.
There is a practical session in the pool and students are encouraged to experience first hand the problems of entering (and assisting the entrance of others) an inflated liferaft whilst fully kitted out.
Duration: One day
Prior qualification: None
Suddenly Alone for Non-Skippers - One Day Afloat with an instructor
Course Initiated at RHYC. It covers all that anyone sailing needs to know if one of you is absent or indisposed: - first aid, basic care & use of the engine; boat handling & recovery of a casualty from the water. This is a course for both men and women, to focus your mind and make a plan as to how you would handle such a circumstance on your own boat. This is a popular course as RHYC is one of very few to run it.
Duration: one day.
International Certificate of Competence and Code Europeen des Voles de Navigation Interieure Commonly known as ICC and CEVNI
The CEVNI qualification and carrying the CEVNI rule book onboard is a legal requirement on the inland waterways of Europe. The full ICC requires an oral or written test on regulations, safety, pilotage and navigation. This is followed by a practical assessment of boat handling and is completed with the inland rule of the road.
Certificates of satisfactory completion of practical courses and certificates of competence are acceptable as evidence of competence for the issue of an ICC. The CEVNI test would still be required.
ICC
Suitable certificates are: Powerboat 2, Helmsman’s course, Day Skipper power or sail, Coastal skipper power or sail, DoT deck officer or military bridge watch keeping certificate, DoT boatman’s certificate or RYA dinghy Instructor and power boat 2.
The application form also shows what is requested for the oral or written assessment and the practical boat handling. An hour should be allowed for the former and two hours for the latter. The CEVNI is a 14 question multi choice answer paper usually taking about 30 minutes.
Duration: CEVNI 30 minutes.
Prior Qualification: None
Finally
Do let us know if any of the above appeal to you, send your name, address, contact tel no & e-mail address to The Secretary, RHYC, Woolverstone, Ipswich, IP9 1AT or by e-mail to: office.manager@roaylharwich.co.uk
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