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RYA Competent Crew

5 days: £625

The RYA Competent Crew course is a 5 day course for beginners or those wishing to build on the skills that they learnt during the Start Yachting course. It is aimed at people who would like to become active crew members rather than just passengers.

Accommodation is available from 1700 Saturday until 1000 the next Saturday to provide maximum flexibility with regard to flights.

Your course will start at 0930 on Monday morning, giving the crew a chance to settle in and find their way around the boat before setting sail. The English speaking instructor will give a full safety briefing before the first passage but virtually all of the course is hands on. You are the crew and without you the sails will not go up and the boat will not be steered.

One pleasure of this course is the way that total strangers start working together, making the yacht sail efficiently. By the end of the course you should be able to steer, handle sails, keep a lookout, row a dinghy and assist in daily routines on board. You should also have visited some beautiful places and had an enjoyable holiday. This course will provide you with a good foundation for many years of happy and confident cruising.

Suggested Previous Experience

None.

Course Content

You will be coached over the full RYA course syllabus see below as you live aboard one of the schools yachts. The full course syllabus is in the RYA logbook G15 available from our office.

Award

RYA Competent Crew NON Tidal Practical Certificate.

2012 Dates

5 Days

Mar	24th, 31st,
Apr	21st, 28th,
May	19th, 26th,
Jun	02nd, 09th, 16th,
Sep	01st,
Oct	13th, 20th,

Syllabus

Knowledge of sea terms and parts of a boat, her rigging and sails

Sufficient knowledge to understand orders given concerning the sailing and day to day running of the boat

Sail handling

Bending on, setting, reefing and handling of sails
Use of sheets and halyards and their associated winches

Ropework

Handling ropes, including coiling, stowing, securing to cleats and single and double bollards
Handling warps
Ability to tie the following knots and to know their correct use :- figure of eight, clove hitch, rolling hitch, bowline, round turn and two half hitches, single and double sheet bend, reef knot.

Fire precautions and fighting

Awareness of the hazards of fire and the precautions necessary to prevent fire
Knowledge of the action to be taken in the event of fire

Personal safety equipment

Understands and complies with the rules for the wearing of safety harnesses, lifejackets and personal buoyancy aids.

Man overboard

Understands the action to be taken to recover a man overboard

Emergency equipment

Can operate distress flares and knows when they should be used
Understands how to launch and board a liferaft

Manners and customs

Understands accepted practice with regard to:-
Use of burgees and ensigns, prevention of unnecessary noise or disturbance in harbour including courtesies to other craft berthed.
Awareness of responsibilities of yacht skippers to protect the environment

Rules of the road

Is able to keep an efficient lookout at sea

Dinghies

Understands and complies with the loading rules
Is able to handle a dinghy under oars

Meteorology

Awareness of forecasting services and knowledge of the Beaufort scale

Seasickness

Working ability is unaffected / partially affected / severely affected by seasickness

Helmsmanship and sailing

Understands the basic principles of sailing and can steer and trim sails on all points of sailing

Can steer a compass course, under sail and power

General duties

Has carried out general duties satisfactorily on deck and below decks in connection with the daily routine of the vessel.

East Aegean Sea School

Tel: 01473 659994 Email: sales@eastaegeanseaschool.com