Yachtmaster - Practical:
5
day course
A Yachtmaster Offshore is competent
to skipper a motor yacht on any passage during which
the vessel is no more than 150 miles from harbour.
Before taking this practical exam, candidates must
have 50 days seatime, logged 2,500 miles (of which
at least 1,250 must have been in tidal waters),
and must include at least 5 passages over 60 miles
from the port of departure to the destination, acting
as skipper on at least two of these passages and
two of which should be overnight.
In order to gain the full Yachtmaster
Offshore certificate you also need to pass your
Yachtmaster Offshore theory exam and gain your VHF
radio licence and First Aid certificate.
To be commercially endorsed you
require a medical certificate and sea survival certificate.
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Course
Price (inc. fuel)
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2125 Euros
(based on 4 people sharing)
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Yachtmaster
Offshore Syllabus
International
Regulations for the Prevention of Collisions at
Sea
Questions will be confined to the
International Regulations and although candidates
must be aware of the existence of Local Regulations
they will not be expected to memorise specific local
regulations.
Safety
Candidates will be expected to know what safety
equipment should be carried on board a motor yacht,
based either on the recommendations in RYA booklet
C8 or the Code of Practice for the Safety of Small
Commercial Vessels.
Boat Handling
Candidates for Yachtmaster Offshore
will be expected to answer questions or demonstrate
ability in complex situations and will be expected
to show a high level of expertise.
General Seamanship,
including Maintenance
Properties, use and care of synthetic
ropes, knots, general deck-work at sea and in harbour,
engine operation and routine checks.
Responsibilities
of Skipper
The skipper must be able to communicate
with the crew, delegate responsibility, prepare
the yacht for sea and adverse weather, deal with
emergency and distress situations, know the procedures
when dealing with customs and know the standards
of behaviour and courtesy required on board a yacht.
Navigation
A high level of knowledge is expected
in the Yachtmaster Offshore examination. Charts,
chartwork, tides, buoyage, instruments, passage
planning, vessels' capabilities, pilotage, navigational
records, navigation by electronic position fixing
systems, particularly GPA and use of radar as an
aid to navigation, pilotage, collision warning and
collision avoidance are just some of the subjects
included in the syllabus.
Meteorology
Must understand definition of terms,
sources of weather forecasts, weather systems and
local weather effects, interpretation of weather
forecasts, barometric trends and visible phenomena
and have the ability to make passage planning decisions
based on forecast information.
Signals
a.
Candidates for Yachtmaster Offshore must hold the
Restricted (VHF only) Certificate of Competence
in radiotelephony or a higher grade of certificate
of radiotelephony.
b.
Principles of signalling by flags and morse.
