The shorebased courses are
held in our comfortable classroom in Palma. All course notes
and certificates are included, and navigation equipment, training
charts and work notes are provided for your use.
BASIC NAVIGATION & SAFETY:
This is a new RYA course introduced in autumn 2007
and suits new sailors perfectly. The course will be a basic
introduction to navigation and safety for anyone new to boating:
sailors, power boaters, sea anglers, divers and boat masters.
The course is also useful for experienced dinghy and keelboat
sailors and inshore racers. Two days in our classroom and
you are ready for a week on the water!
DAY SKIPPER/WATCH LEADER introduces
you to basic navigation, pilotage, meteorology, working with
tides and collision regulations, as well as safety on board
and emergency procedures.
The syllabus provides skippers with enough knowledge to navigate
around familiar waters by day. A basic knowledge of lights
is also included; in case a siesta in an anchorage is so delightful
you arrive back late!
It will probably be one of the most rewarding weeks you will
ever spend in a classroom!
COASTAL SKIPPER & YACHTMASTER:
This course is for more experienced skippers and teaches to
the level required for coastal and offshore passages. Navigation,
meteorology, collision avoidance, safety at sea and passage
planning are covered in much more depth than on the Day Skipper/Watch
Leader course.
Following your successful completion of this course, you
will fully understand the principles of navigating for coastal
and offshore passages. It is a hard, though extremely rewarding
week.
YACHTMASTER OCEAN: This advanced
RYA course is designed for long distance sailors, who are
already qualified to Yachtmaster Offshore level. The syllabus
teaches astro-navigation and ocean passage making and ocean
meteorology - it also elucidates the mysteries of the sextant!
Your ability after successful completion of this course will
be to understand how to plan and navigate on an ocean passage.
Following the successful completion of this course, and the
submission of a sun-run-sun sight, you will be eligible to
meet with an Ocean examiner to become qualified to skipper
a yacht worldwide.
VHF/DSC MARINE RADIO, SHORT RANGE CERTIFICATE
(SRC): A must for any skipper! This will be one of
the few chances you’ll ever get to press the red button without
sending for the coastguard! This is a one-day course where
you can twiddle knobs to your hearts content, learning how
to send distress and urgency messages, make inter-ship calls,
what to say, how to say and when to say. We offer you training
on the latest SIMRAD radio sets, plus simulators for plenty
of practice.
Contact the school by email: training@aiguaseaschool.com
or call us at any time.
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