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Fastrack Yachtmaster offers a reiliable route to the RYA/MCA Yachtmaster Offshore/ Master of Yachts 200gt certificate, a benchmark for commercial skippers and a passport to professional yachting. Whether you are an experienced sailor or a complete beginner, planning a career in sailing or achieving a personal goal, you will find yourself fully challenged and stretched.
Gibraltar is an excellent base for Yachtmaster training thanks to reliable winds, warm tidal waters, busy shipping lanes and a wide variety of interesting sailing passages to exotic destinations in Spain, Portugal and Morocco
Your RYA course will be on board spacious luxurious modern yachts (no shared berths), fully equipped with up to the minute navigation and radar technology. Only five students are enrolled on each yacht and all courses are run by an experienced and fully qualified RYA approved instructor to ensure the highest level of instruction is available to each individual .
Two weeks are spent in a shore based classroom completing Day Skipper Theory and Coastal/Yachtmaster Theory.
The theory syllabus covers:
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Passage planning
GPS and electronic aids
Vessel stability
Meterology
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Advanced navigation and chartwork
Tidal heights and streams
Safety equipment and procedures
Collision Regulations (IRPCS)/
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Practical training includes: |
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Sail trimming
Boat handling under sail and power
Port entry and pilotage
Passage planning
Crew management
Safety and emergency drills
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Spinnaker handling
Passage planning
Navigation
Skippered passages
Watch keeping
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In addition, we want you to be capable of maintaining a yacht. Training is continuous throughout the course and covers all the boat systems both mechanical and electronic. Trips up on the bosun’s chair are always fun but maintaining the boat to a high standard is a full time job but everyone seem to love it. |
Included in the Fastrack , are |
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Sea survival course
DSC VHF radio course
Electrical Systems
Sail repair
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First aid
Diesel engine maintenance
Mast and rigging
Winch maintenance
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It is a big investment to make your future a better one so we all work hard to make it successful and at the same time, make it fun . Power and Sail Academy have 100% pass rate for Yachtmaster. |
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