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Tell us your miles. We’ll tell you the course.

Every RYA certificate requires minimum sea time. Move the sliders: you’ll see what you can enrol in and what’s missing for the next stage.

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Your course

Competent Crew

For anyone who has never sailed, or only as a passenger. Runs alongside the Day Skipper, on the same boat.

For Day Skipper we recommend 100 nm, 5 days at sea, 4 hours at night, but you can take it without: it sails on the same boat as the Competent Crew.

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  1. Competent Crewyou can enrol
  2. Day Skipperopen to all, experience recommended
  3. Coastal Skipper300 nm · 15 days at sea
  4. Yachtmaster Coastal800 nm · 30 days at sea
  5. Yachtmaster Offshore2,500 nm · 50 days at sea
  6. Yachtmaster OceanYachtmaster Offshore · a 600-mile passage
  7. Master 200 GTYachtmaster Offshore · 6 months of commercial endorsement

This is a first guide. Yachtmaster also counts long passages: before the exam we check your logbook together.

  1. 01Competent Crewfrom zero
  2. 02Day Skipper100 nm · 5 d
  3. 03Coastal Skipper300 nm · 15 d
  4. 04Yachtmaster Coastal800 nm · 30 d
  5. 05Yachtmaster Offshore2,500 nm · 50 d
  6. +Yachtmaster OceanNo limit from shore · after Offshore
  7. +Master 200 GTMCA certificate · after Offshore