RYA SAILING SCHOOL

The Royal Yachting Association is the most recognize teaching facility in the world.
It means that you can expect to be taught by an experience skipper aboard a seaworthy yacht. Our school is inspected regularly from UK inspectors to ensure that training yachts and instructors meet the high standards required from the RYA and Maritime and Coastguard agency (MCA).

All courses practical or theory are done in English.
At the end of each successful course the student receives an RYA certificate.

Practical Sailing Courses

Competent Crew (two weekends or 5 days)
This is a beginner?s course. Course start late afternoon in the Marina to give a chance for the crew to settle and find their way around the yacht before setting sails the next day. The instructor gives a briefing about safety and generally all you need to know before depart. By the end of this course you should be able to steer, handle sails, keep lookout, row dinghy and assist all the day routines on board.
Suggested min pre-course experience: NONE

1. Knowledge of sea terms and parts of a boat, rigging and sails
2. Sail handling
3. Rope work
4. Fire precautions and fighting
5. Personal safety equipment
6. Man overboard
7. Emergency equipment
8. Manners and customs
9. Rules of the road
10. Dinghies
11. Meteorology
12. Seasickness
13. Helmsman ship and sailing
14. General Duties

Day Skipper-Non Tidal (three weekend or 5 days)
The Day skipper practical course is for aspiring skippers who have some yachting experience and basic navigation and sailing ability.
Each trainee skipper will be asked to skipper a yacht in a short passage. At the end of this course you should be able to skipper a yacht and take full responsibility about all aspect of the boat.
Suggested min pre-course experience: Some practical and navigation experience

1. Knowledge of competent crew material.
2. Preparation for sea.
3. Deck work.
4. Navigation.
5. Pilotage.
6. Meteorology.
7. Rules of the road.
8. Maintenance and repair work.
9. Engines.
10. Understand how to operate a yacht.
11. Emergency situations.
12. Yacht handling under power.
13. Yacht handling under sails.
14. Passage making.

Coastal Skipper-Non Tidal (Three weekend or 5 days)
This is an advance-skippering course for yachtsmen and women who have considerable knowledge of sailing and navigation. Coastal skippers should be able to undertake more difficult passages by day and night and handle yacht in more demanding situations.
By the end of the course you should have the knowledge if not the experience to became a Yachtmaster. The course consists of skippered passages by each of the trainees in a whole variety of situations. It adds up to a satisfying but intensive week.
Suggested min pre-course experience: 15 days (two days as a skipper), 300 miles, and eight night hours. Extensive knowledge for navigation (day skipper/yachtmaster RYA shore base course).

1. Knowledge of competent crew and day skipper material.
2. Passage planning.
3. Preparation for sea.
4. Pilotage.
5. Passage making and ability as a skipper.
6. Yacht handling under power.
7. Yacht handling under sail.
8. Adverse whether conditions.
9. Emergency situations.

Yachtmaster: Only available for very experience skippers. Please contact us in order to provide you with more information how to pass your Yachtmaster exam.
Suggested min pre-course experience: Theory of Yachtmaster shorebase, 50 days, five days as a skipper, 2,500 miles, five passages over 60 miles, two nights as a skipper. If exam is done in Cyprus you must have minimum 1,200 mile on tidal water.

Shore base (theory) ? once a week 3hrs 16 weeks

Day skipper shore base
1. Nautical terms
2. Rope work
3. Anchor work
4. Safety
5. International regulations for preventing collisions at sea
6. Definition of position, course and speed
7. Navigation charts and applications
8. Navigational drawing instruments
9. Compasses
10. Chart work
11. Position fixing
12. Tides and Tidal streams
13. Visual aids to navigation
14. Meteorology
15. Passage planning
16. Navigation in restricted visibility
17. Responsibility for avoiding pollution and protecting the sea.

End of the course the student?s mast complete to written exams.

Costal/Yacht master shore base
1. Dead reckoning and estimated position
2. The position line
3. The magnetic compass
4. Position fixing
5. Tides
6. Tidal steam
7. Buoyage
8. Lights
9. Pilotage
10. Echo sounders
11. Radio aids to navigation
12. Logs (speed and distance measuring)
13. Deck log
14. Meteorology
15. Anchoring
16. Rule of the road
17. Safety at sea
18. Siqlas
19. Navigation in restricted visibility
20. Passage planning and making